332 LI. BOSACEJE. (J. D. Hooker.) [Eubus. 



cordate with 5-7 shallow crenate lobes, stipules leafy pectinate, flowers lanre 

 solitary clustered or in short panicles, bracts leafy persistent, petals orbicular 

 small, carpels very numerous hairy. Rubus No. 24, Hook.f. $ Thorns. Herb. 

 Ind. Or. 



Eastern temperate Himalaya; SIKKIM, alt. 7-10,000 ft., Dr. Treutler. 



A large leafy erect bush, with often glandular bristles mixed with the soft 

 flexuous hairs that cover all parts more or less ; prickles passing into bristles, some- 

 times slightly decurved. Leaves 2-6 in. diam., membranous, green, with scattered 

 hairs above ; lobes shallow, rounded or acute, crenatures acute ; petiole short or long 

 and slender, sometimes 3 in. ; stipules \ in., almost orbicular in outline, concave, 

 green. Flowers f-1 in. diam., shortly pedicelled; bracts sometimes reduced to 

 narrow segments. Calyx-tube hemispheric, villous and often bristly ; lobes large, often 

 leafy and laciniate, or pectinately pinnatifid. Petals nearly orbicular, much smaller 

 than the calyx, white or pink. Stamens very numerous. Carpels about 100, style 

 very slender, stigma hairy. This and R. birmanicus belong to the group with E. 

 Hookeri, all having very numerous carpels and dry fruits. 



SERIES II. Leaves digitately or pedately 3-5-foliolate. 

 * Leaves ylabrous or nearly so beneath. 



16. R. frag arioides, Bertoloni Miscell. xxii. 16, t. 5 ; herbaceous, un- 

 armed, stem petioles and peduncles faintly pubescent, leaflets 3 or 5 obovate or 

 orbicular with a cuneate base lobulate quite glabrous, lobules with acute sinus 

 and coarse teeth, calyx-tube glabrous, lobes ovate-lanceolate quite entire. 



Eastern Temperate Himalaya in swamps; SIKKIM, alt. 10-13,000 ft., J. D. H., 

 C. B. Clarke. 



A very small species ; stem chiefly subterranean, slender, woody, sending up very 

 short floriferous branches bearing one or two pedately 3-5-foliolate leaves. Leaflets 

 membranous, contracted into the 1-3 in. very slender petiole ; stipules in., 

 broadly ovate, obtuse, toothed or quite entire. Flowers f in. diam., white, peduncle 

 J-l in. slender. Calyx-tube glabrous ; lobes acuminate, tjps slender. Petals obovate, 

 acute. Carpels about 5, not seen ripe. Very near to R. triflorus, Richards, ft. 

 japonica of Japan ; see Maximovicz Diagnoses, Dec. x. 375. 



17. It. alpestris, Blume, Bijd. 1108 ; erect, nearly glabrous, calyx and 

 stipules eglandular, prickles small scattered, leaflets 3-5 elliptic narrowed at 

 both ends acutely crenate-serrate, stipules linear-lanceolate, flowers 1-3 ter- 

 minal on slender peduncles, calyx prickly, lobes caudate, carpels many glabrous. 

 Miguel, Fl. Ind. Bat.i. part 1, 378. R. pentagonus, Wall. Cat. 731. 



Temperate Himalayas; from GARWHAL, alt. 7-8000 ft., to SIKKIM, alt, 8-10,000 

 ft. DISTRIB. Java. 



A straggling shrub, with the young parts pubescent ; stem stout, cylindric ; 

 prickles few, short, slightly curved. Leaflets 2-4 in., membranous, subsessile ; ter- 

 minal the largest, lateral often oblique ; nerves 7-10 pair, slender, arched, sometimes 

 faintly pubescent beneath ; petiole 1-2 in., sometimes pubescent, usually armed ; 

 stipules small, membranous, usually glandular. Flowers f-1 in. diam., usually soli- 

 tary, rarely 3-nate ; peduncles armed or not, more or less pubescent and glandular. 

 Calyx armed, rarely unarmed, densely pubescent or glabrate ; lobes often \ in. 

 pubescent in the outer margins and within, suberect in fruit. Petals white, orbicular, 

 shorter than the calyx. Stamens 1-seriate. Fruit globose; drupes 12-15, large, 

 glabrous, stone rugose. 



18. R. Thomson!, Focke Batogr. in Abhandl. Naturwiss. Verein, 

 Bremen iv. 198 ; prostrate, slender, eglandular, prickles few very small, leaflets 

 3 broad-ovate acuminate two lateral much the smallest crenate or serrate very 



