334 LI. ROSACES. (J. D. Hooker.) [Rulus. 



Stems annual from a stout woody rhizome, short, erect. Leaflets 2-3 in., mem- 

 branous, the lateral subsessile with cuneate bases and often a lobed outer margin ; 

 petiole very slender, 3-5 in. ; stipules linear or linear-oblong. Flowers $ in. diam., 

 1-4, shortly pedicelled on the top of a slender axillary peduncle. Calyx-tube short, 

 glabrous, unarmed ; lobes lanceolate, erect in fruit. Petals white, small, slender. 

 Fruit with few large scarlet drupes ; stone reticulated. 



22. XI. nutans, Wall. Cat. 738 ; eglandular, unarmed, stein petioles 

 peduncles and calyx-tube clothed with flexuous hairs or bristles, leaflets 3 

 orbicular or subrhomboidal obscurely lobed acutely doubly toothed, calyx-lobes 

 large caudate-acuminate pinnatifid towards the tips, shorter than the obovate 

 petals, carpels few glabrous. Hook. Sot. Mag. t. 523 ; Edgivorth in Tram. 

 Linn. Soc. xx. 45. 



Temperate Himalayas, from GARWHAL and KUMAON, alt. 8-10,000 ft. 



Stems as thick as a sparrow quill, 1 -2 ft. long from a woody rootstock ; hairs 

 rather stiff, red-brown when dry. Leaflets H-3 in. long and broad, membranous, 

 glabrous and dark-green above, hairy along the nerves beneath, base cuneate, 

 lateral shortly petiolulate ; petiole 2-4 in. ; stipules large, broadly ovate or oblong, 

 entire or toothed. Flowers usually solitary, axillary, H in. diam.; peduncle stout. 

 Calyx-tube villous, lobes f -|- in. Fruit of few scarlet drupes ; stone smooth. 



VAR. nepalensis ; more slender, smaller in all its parts, leaflets |-1^ in., flowers 

 .V-f in. diam., calyx lobes acuminate, not quite entire. East Nepal, Tambur River, 

 alt. 9000 ft., J. D. H'. 



23. R. Fockeanus, Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. Seng. 1875, ii. 206 ; eglan- 

 dular, unarmed, stem petioles and peduncles pubescent, leaflets orbicular finely 

 toothed, nearly glabrous on both surfaces, flowers solitary, calyx-tube glabrous 

 or sparsely setose, lobes ovate-lanceolate quite entire. 



Eastern temperate Himalaya ; SIK.KIM on the Lachoong Eiver and Phullalong 

 and Singalelah, alt. 10-14,000 ft. J. D. H., C. B. Clarke. 



Stems wholly procumbent, widely creeping, slender, very sparingly pubescent. 

 Leaflets f-1 in. diam., not shining above, and with very few hairs on the nerves be- 

 neath, lateral petiolulate ; petiole 1 in. ; stipules \ in., oblong, obtuse, toothed or 

 quite entire. Flowers on very short lateral shoots ; peduncle exceeding the petiole. 

 Calyx \ in. across the lobes, tube almost glabrous, lobes acuminate. Petals not seen. 

 Fruit a few red drupes ; stone quite smooth. The small size, absence of long hairs, 

 opaque foliage and smooth stone of the drupes distinguish this at once from R. 

 nutans. 



24. R. Hookeri, Focke Batogr. in Abhandl. Naturwiss. Verein Bremen, 

 iv. 197 (1874) ; stem petioles and inflorescence pubescent with copious soft 

 hairs and glandular bristles, prickles few straight, leaflets 3 large rhomboid- 

 ovate or -orbicular caudate-acuminate lobulate and toothed, stipules pectinate, 

 flowers large solitary and in few-flowered axillarypanicles, calyx hispid,lobes with 

 filiform points, carpels very numerous. R. macrocarpus, Kurz MSS. 9 Clarke in 

 Journ. Linn. Soc, xv. 141. 



Eastern temperate Himalaya ; SIKKIM, alt. 7-9000 ft. 



A low shrub, almost hispid with gland-tipped hairs, prickles slender. Leaflets 

 petiolulate, often subequal, 2-5 in., bright green, bases acute or rounded, tipper surface 

 glabrous with pubescent nerves, under also glabrous with hairy nerves ; petiole 

 2-3 in. ; stipules orbicular or broadly oblong, foliaceous, recurved, villous. Flowers 

 l-2 in. diam., with often persistent foliaceous pectinate bracts. Calyx pubescent, 

 bristly, lobes 1 in., triangular-ovate, often laciniate, spreading in fruit. Petals much 

 smaller than the calyx, orbicular, greenish-white. Stamens very numerous. Carpels 

 in a dense cluster of 2-300 or more, and base of long filiform conniving styles, vil- 



