458 RUBUS 



R. FLAGELLIFLORUS, Focke. 



A climbing evergreen shrub, with slender, graceful stems growing q or 6 ft. 

 in length in one season; when young they are covered with a whitish felt, 

 sprinkled amongst which are tiny decurved prickles. Leaves broadly ovate, 

 long-pointed, the base heart-shaped ; the largest are 6 or 7 ins. long, and 

 about two-thirds as wide, shallowly lobed on the margins as well as finely and 

 sharply toothed ; the upper surface has appressed hairs between the veins, 

 the lower one is covered with a thick, yellowish felt; stalk i to 2-| ins. long, 

 slightly spiny. Flowers white, borne in axillary clusters. " Fruits shining 

 black, ^ in. wide, edible. 



Native of Central and W. China, up to 6000 ft.; introduced for Messrs 

 Veitch by Wilson about 1901. In habit this is one of the most elegant of the 

 new Chinese Rubi, and one of the handsomest in its foliage. When trained 

 up a post or other support, the slender, whip-like shoots push out in all 

 directions. The leaves often put on a marbled appearance in the shade. 

 The appropriate name of " flagelliformis " is rather commonly applied to this 

 plant, but the one given above is correct. 



R. FLOSCULOSUS, Focke. 



A deciduous shrub up to 10 or 12 ft. high ; the stout stems erect, arching 

 at the much-branched top, biennial, smooth except for a few spines. Leaves 

 pinnate, 4 to 7 ins. long, composed of five or seven leaflets which are ovate, 

 | to 1 1 ins. long; the terminal one larger, often three-lobed, and 3 ins. 

 long ; smooth above or becoming so, covered beneath with a close 

 white felt ; coarsely, often doubly toothed. Flowers small, pink, \ in. 

 wide, produced in narrow, cylindrical racemes 2 to 4 ins. long, terminating 

 the shoot, and in shorter ones from the axils of the terminal leaves. Fruit 

 small,' very dark red, or black. 



Native of Central and W. China; introduced by Wilson in 1907. A very 

 vigorous, pinnate-leaved bramble, allied to R. Giraldianus, but with dark 

 purplish brown stems. 



R. GIRALDIANUS, Focke. 



A vigorous deciduous shrub up to 8 or 10 ft. high ; its biennial stems 

 much branched towards the summit, pendulous at the ends, covered with a 

 vividly white, waxy covering, not downy, armed rather sparely with broad- 

 based spines. Leaves pinnate, consisting of usually nine leaflets, and from 

 5 to 8 ins. long ; the main-stalk downy, and armed with hooked spines. 

 Leaflets \\ to 2^ ins. long, f to i ins. wide, the terminal one the largest ; 

 ovate or rather diamond-shaped ; lateral ones oval-lanceolate ; all unequally 

 and rather coarsely toothed, slender-pointed, smooth above, white beneath 

 with a close felt. Inflorescence a terminal panicle ; the flowers small and of 

 little beauty, purple. Fruit black. 



Native of China ; first found in the province of Shensi by Giraldi, later in 

 Szectmen by Wilson, who introduced it in 1907. Its claims to recognition in 

 the garden are its remarkably white stems, which are as striking in this 

 respect as those of R. biflorus, and its pendulous branches, which give a 

 remarkable fountain-like aspect to the shrub. 



R. GRACILIS, Roxburgh. 

 (R. niveus, Wallich^ 



A deciduous shrub, with very stout, erect, biennial stems, i to \\ ins. thick 

 and in vigorous plants 4 to 6 yards high, covered 'with a soft, thick, velvety 



