466 RUBUS 



Leaves usually palmately five-lobed, sometimes three-lobcd, sometimes 

 seven- or nine-lobed ; i to 3 ins. long, margins doubly toothed ; greeri on 

 both surfaces with silky hairs along the midrib and veins ; stalk to li ins. 

 long, with hooked spines. Flowers white, i|- ins. across, solitary, produced 

 from the axils of terminal leaves on short shoots that spring from the previous 

 year's growths. Petals of narrowly oval outline, their ends rounded ; calyx 

 downy outside, smooth within, the lobes narrow, long-pointed, and toothed ; 

 stalk slender, -i to | in. long. Fruit roundish, yellow and juicy, f in. across. 



Native of China and Japan. In the Temperate House at Kew, trained on 

 a pillar, this shrub is 20 ft. or more high, but in the open and unprotected 

 it is rather a low shrub. Although hardy enough, it apparently needs some- 

 whit warmer conditions than the open air affords near London to bring out 

 its best qualities. 



R. PARKERI, Hance. 



A deciduous shrub of climbing habit; stems biennial, round, slender, 

 armed with short, scattered, decurved spines, and thickly covered with 

 greyish hairs, many of them gland-tipped. Leaves simple, broadly lanceolate, 

 long-pointed, heart-shaped at the base; 4 to 7 ins. long, about half as wide; 

 the margins wavy, and sharply and finely toothed; upper surface bristly, 

 especially along the midrib and veins, the lower one covered with a dense 

 brownish red down; leaf -stalk up to I in. long, hairy and prickly. Flowers 

 borne on an elongated, lax panicle, the calyx being remarkable for its dense 

 covering of reddish glandular hairs. Fruit black, ripening early. 



Native of China, where it was originally discovered in the province of 

 Szechuen by E. H. Parker, in 1881; introduced in 1907 by Wilson, who found 

 it near Ichang. This bramble has distinct and striking foliage, and its habit 

 promises to be elegant. 



R. PARVIFOLIUS, Linnaus. 

 (Bot. Reg., t. 496 ; R. triphyllus, Thunberg.} 



A low, deciduous bramble, forming a tangle of slender, downy, prickly 

 stems a few feet high. Leaves composed of usually three, but sometimes five, 

 leaflets, borne on a common stalk i^- to 2 ins. long, downy, and covered with 

 prickles. Leaflets of various shapes and sizes, usually roundish or widely 

 obovate, f to 2 ins. long, coarsely toothed, dark green and smooth above, 

 clothed with a close white felt beneath, the terminal one the largest and 

 longest stalked. Flowers produced from the leaf-axils near the end of the 

 shoot in few-flowered corymbs on downy, prickly stalks; petals bright rose- 

 coloured, erect. Fruit roundish, red, edible. 



Native of Japan and China; some of its forms also native of Australia. 

 It was originally imported by the Horticultural Society in 1818. It is rather 

 pretty in blossom, but not more so than many of our native brambles. 



R. PHCENICOLASIUS, Maximowicz. WlNEBERRY. 

 (Bot. Mag., t. 6479.) 



A deciduous shrub making spreading stems 8 to 10 ft. long in favourable 

 situations; the stems are biennial, round, and together with the branches and 

 leaf-stalks are covered densely with reddish, gland-tipped bristles mixed with 

 which are a few slender prickles. Leaves 5 to 7 ins. long, composed of three 

 leaflets. 1 he terminal leaflet is stalked, 2 to 4 ins. long, roundish or broadly 

 ovate, the base rounded or heart-shaped, the margins coarsely toothed and 



