148 20. R. MACROPHYLLUS. 



Stem forming a rather large arch at the base but with 

 a long prostrate shoot beyond, nearly round and with 

 slender scattered prickles at the base, hairy, having many 

 subsessile glands, rather angular towards the top (even be- 

 coming slightly furrowed when dry). Prickles on the 

 angles of the stem, slender, declining, from a large low 

 oblong base. Leaves quinate. Leaflets convex, doubly 

 dentate-serrate in a rather irregular manner, often with 

 ascending serrate lobes in the upper half (traces of which 

 may be seen in most cases, even when the serratures are 

 nearly regular), dull green and pilose above, pale green, 

 liaiiy on the veins and finely felted beneath or whiter with 

 fewer hairs and more felt ; lower slightly stalked, obovate- 

 lanceolate ; intermediate obovate, cuspidate, shortly stalked ; 

 terminal long-stalked, broadly obovate, cuspidate, often 

 slightly cordate at the base ; petioles not furrowed, and as 

 well as the midribs having strong hooked prickles beneath ; 

 stipules narrowly linear-lanceolate. 



Flowering shoot hairy, felted, glandular, from ashy 

 scales. Prickles slender, long, declining, from a long com- 

 pressed base. Leaves quinate or ternate. Leaflets very hairy 

 on both sides, rather paler beneath, obovate, shortly cuspi- 

 date, toothed as on the stem ; basal leaflets of the quinate 

 leaves subsessile, of the ternate slightly stalked unequal-based 

 or lobate. Panicle long, narrow; branches short, few- 

 flowered, corymbose, or 1-flowered, few lowest axillary, as- 

 cending, racemose ; rachis and peduncles hairy, felted, with 

 many sunken setse. Sepals lanceolate with a long flattened 

 almost leaflike point, reflexed from the fruit, hairy, felted, 

 setose, slightly aciculate. Petals contiguous, nearly white, 

 clawed, roundish, toothed. Filaments pinkish. Anthers 

 yellow. Styles cream-coloured, faintly pink at the base. 

 Primordial fruit-stalk equalling the calyx. 



This is certainly not the R. carpinifolius of many foreign 



