202 30. R. KOEHLERI. 



attenuate, leaf-pointed. Petals narrow, distant, obovate, 

 acute, clawed, pink. Filaments white. Anthers and styles 

 pale yellow. Primordial fruit-stalk not so long as the 

 sepals ; also the terminal fruit-stalk of the branches is 

 usually shorter than the lateral ones, which are commonly 

 divaricate. I^ut ^ -ovate ; inner edge nearly straight. 



^ infestus; aculeis aciculis setisque multis validis, 

 foliolis suhtus moUibus in vents tantum hirtis, paniculce 

 latse ad apicem rotundatrE ramis mediocribus subcorym- 

 bosis erectis sed ramis axillaribus corymbosis erecto- 

 patentibus, pedunculo terminali paniculce et ramorurfi 

 quam lateralibus hreviori^ aculeis paniculse validis de- 

 flexis. 



R. Koehleri 8 infestus Bab.! Syn. 27; Man. ed. 2. 104; 

 ed. 5. 106; ed. 6. 115. Lees in Steele, 56. 



R. pallidus (i infestus Bab. ! Man. ed. 3. 100; ed. 4. 103. 



R. carpinifolius Leight. ! Fl. Shrop. 229; Shropshire 

 Kubi! (sp.). (Not of Eng. Bot. Suppl. nor Rubi Germ.) 



R.fusco-ater y aculeatus Bab.! Man. ed. 3. 101; ed. 4. 

 104. 



Stem arching rather highly at the base, afterwards 

 prostrate, angular. Prickles many, strong, deflexed, or 

 strongly declining, compressed, from very long compressed 

 bases, very unequal. Aciculi, setce and hairs moderate in 

 number, short. Leaves quiuate. Leaflets all stalked, dark 

 green and pilose above, hairy on even the smallest veins 

 beneath, and rarely a little felted, flat, wavy at the edge, 

 doubly dentate-serrate, cuspidate ; basal oblong ; interme- 

 diate obovate ; terminal shortly obovate ; petioles and mid- 

 ribs with many short strong much-hooked prickles beneath ; 

 stipules linear lanceolate. 



