330 LI. ROSACES. (J. D. Hooker.) [Rubus. 



tomentose, often prickly ; stipules and bracts pectinately pinnatifid. Flowers ^-| 

 in. diam. Calyx-lobes broadly ovate, acute, with 2-5 long marginal teeth, densely 

 tomentose, almost villous, erect in fruit. Petals as long as the calyx, white. Fila- 

 ments hairy. Carpels numerous, glabrous. Fruit of 20-30 small drupes, stone wavy 

 on the surface. 



A specimen from Birma ? in Griffith's Herb, is more glabrous with more slender 

 petioles. E.Finlaysonianus, Wall. Cat. 7109, from Siam, known only from a frag- 

 ment in bud, differs in the apparently entire calyx-lobes clothed with buff tomentum. 



fft Leaves normally broader than long,palmately 5-7-lobed; stipules pin~ 

 natifid or pectinate. Carpels many. 



11. R. moluccanus, Linn. ; DC. Prodr. ii. 666 ; eglandular, tomentose 

 villous or sublanate, prickles scattered short curved, leaves long-petioled usually 

 deeply cordate broad ovate or orbicular obtusely or acutely 3-7-lobed toothed 

 smooth scabrid or rugose above, beneath clothed with grey or yellow wool or 

 pubescence, panicles axillary and terminal, calyx villous and silky, lobes lan- 

 ceolate or ovate acute entire or with pectinate margins, carpels very manv. 

 Roxb. Fl. Ind. ii. 518 ; Miq. Fl. Ind, Ind. Bat. i. part 1, 382 ; Wall. Cat. 743 ; 

 Kurz For. Flor. Brit. Burm. i. 437. R. rugosus, Smith in Rees Cyc. xxx. 

 Rubus 34 ; Don Prodr. 234 ; Wight et Am. Prodr. 299 ; Dalz. $ Gibs. Bomb. 

 Flor. 89 ; Thwaites Enum. 101 ; Wight. Ic. t. 225 ; Wall. Cat. 748 ; Plant. As. 

 Rar. iii. 19, t. 234 (Hamiltonianus).' R. alceaefolius, Poir. Encycl. vi. 247. R. 

 micropetalus, macrocarpus, and Fairholmianus, Gardner in Calc. Journ. Nat. 

 Hist. viii. 6. R. cordifolius, Don Prodr. 233. R. i-eflexus, Ker in Bot. Reg. 461 ; 

 Benth. Hong-Kong Flor. 104. R. Hamiltonianus. Seringe in DC. Prodr. ii. 

 566. Rumph. Amboin. v. 88, t. 47, f. 2. 



Central and Eastern tropical and temperate Himalaya. ^EPAL, Wallich. SIKKIM, 

 alt. 3-7000 ft. ASSAM ; KHASIA MTS., alt. 3-5000 ft. BURMA. EASTERN PENINSULA. 

 WESTERN PENINSULA or the Ghats from Bombay Southward. CEYLON ascending to 

 7000 ft. DISTRIB. Malay Archipelago and Islands. 



Stem, very robust, with wide spreading subscandent branches, densely clothed 

 with white grey or fulvous tomentum ; prickles hooked, flattened. Leaves 2-10 in. 

 diam., most variable in texture and pubescence ; upper surface smooth or covered 

 with tubercles answering to the spaces between the nervules ; under pubescent vil- 

 lous or clothed with cottony wool, grey or green or buff-coloured, never quite white ; 

 petiole 2-4 in., glabrate or tomentose ; stipules variable in size, oblong, toothed 

 pinnatifid laciniate or pectinate. Inflorescence usually clothed with silky buff to- 

 mentum, rarely white or glabrate. Flowers very variable in size, from |-1 in., in 

 rather contracted terminal panicles and axillary capitate clusters ; bracts like the 

 stipules, never bearing gland-tipped hairs. Calyx-lobes |-| in. long, usually tri 

 angular-ovate, rarely lanceolate, and then pinnatifid in the upper part, erect in fruit. 

 Petals obovate, white, shorter than the calyx -lobes. Filaments glabrous. Carpels 

 numerous, glabrous. Fruit globose, succulent, of many scarlet small drupes; re- 

 ceptacle villous ; stone rugose. 



I am quite- unable to arrange the form of this common and protean plant under 

 recognisable varieties answering to its synonymy. The original E. moluccanus, 

 founded on the plate and description of Rumphius, has leaves with a rugose jupper 

 surface (folia superne quam niaxime rugosa) and a whitish or ochreous under surface. 

 I have it from Assam, the Khasia Mts., Penang and Java ; and with the lobes rather 

 acute from Nepal and almost all localities, where it becomes E. rugosus, Sm., de- 

 scribed as such by Wallich (Plant As. Rar.), and figured under its synonym 

 E. Hamiltonianus. Specimens with acuminate leaf-lobes occur at considerable 

 elevations in the Himalaya and Khasia Mts., where the leaves also become more 

 membranous and very large with pale undersurface ; at similar elevations and 

 localities large leaved states occur with very large flowers, and lanceolate sepals 

 in. long. The branches and inflorescence of Malacca specimens are most densely 



