Bubus ROSACE^: 261 



Sterns with recurved prickles, climbing or trailing. Leaves 3-foliolate, 

 or those of the stem or vigorous branches 5-foliolate ; petioles 5-10 cm. 1., 

 with recurved prickles ; leaflets elliptical or elliptical-ovate, acuminate, 

 acutely and closely serrate, 5-12 cm. 1. Panicles ample, many-flowered, 

 with branches spreading, more or less sericeous, tomentulose. Sepals 

 5-6 mm. 1., lanceolate, acuminate. Petals elliptical-obovate, white ot 

 pink, about 7*5 mm. 1. Fruit hemispherical, black when ripe, 8-10 mm. 

 in diara. ; achenes 2 mm. 1. 



" The fruit of this species is very palatable. Infused in spirit with the 

 bruised kernels of the Prune tree {Prunus occidcntalis), and sweetened 

 with sugar, a liqueur is obtained, not inferior to, and not to be distinguished 

 from, the Copenhagen Cherry Brandy " (Macfadyen). 



2. R. alpinus Mac/. Jam. ii. 7 [1850] ; stems with a purplish 

 tinge, youngest portions sparsely pubescent, at length glabrate ; 

 leatiets 3, glabrous on both sides or sparingly pubescent beneath, 

 mainly on the veins ; bracts lanceolate, glabrescent, purplish ; 

 sepals somewhat tomentellous-pubescent, especially at the base. — 

 Griseb. op. cit. 232 ; Bi/dherg loc. cit. R, guyanensis Focke in 

 Bremen Ahh. iv. 160 (1874). R. ? maximus, vix aculeatus, foliis 

 ternato-ternatis, ovatis, quandoque crenatis Browne loc. cit. 



Alpine Bramble. 



In the higher mountains above 3000 ft. ; in fl. in the middle of 

 the year; Browne; McNabl Macfadyen; Purdie ; J. P. 1376, Morris\ 

 Cinchona, 5000 ft., Fatvcett ! — Costa Rica, Guatemala, Colombia, Venezuela, 

 Guiana. 



Stems with recurved prickles, climbing or trailing. Leaves 3-foliolate ; 

 petioles 3-5 cm. 1., with a few small prickles ; leaflets elliptical, acuminate 

 or sometimes obtuse, finely, unequally and acutely serrate, 4-8 cm. 1. 

 Panicles narrow, pubescent. Sepals 4*5-5 mm. 1., lanceolate, cuspidate- 

 acuminate. Petals elliptical - obovate, white with a purplish tinge, 

 5-5-6 mm. 1. Fruit rounded-ovate, dark purple, 5 mm. in diam. ; 

 achenes, 1 • 5 mm. 1. 



[R. raeemosus Boxb. Fl. Lid. ii. 519 (1832); branchlets, 

 petioles and inflorescence clothed with glandular hairs ; leaflets 

 5-7, ovate or broadly elliptical-ovate, dark green and almost 

 glabrous qn the upper surface, densely white-tomentellous 

 beneath ; sepals caudate, tomentellous, bristly. — Hool\ f. Fl. Br. 

 Ind. ii. 340. 



Grown in the Blue Mts., Fl. Jam. 7164*.— Native of Nilghiri and 

 Pulney Mts., India. 



A prickly Lusli 5-6 ft. high, with pruinose branches. Petals large, red. 

 Carpels woolly. Fruit purplish-black, large and most delicious. 



Introduced by one of us into Jamaica about the year 1890. It is well 

 worthy of cultivation wherever it will grow.] 



[R. elliptleus Smith in Bees Cyclop, xxx. Bubus 16 (1813) ; 

 stems shaggy with spreading reddish-brown hairs ; leaflets 3, 

 roundish, obovate or elliptical, dark green and glabrous on the 

 upper surface, tomentellous whitish in colour beneath ; calyx 

 tomentellous, bristly. — Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. ii. 336. 



