Jtulus.] LI. ROSACE 23. (J. D. Hooker.) 335 



lous. Fruit globose, f in. diara. ; outer carpels dry, glabrous below villous above, 

 imbricating over the inner succulent carpels ; endocarp pitted ; receptacle broad, he- 

 mispherical, velvety, intruded at the base. 



** Stems erect sarmentose or climbing. 



25. K. niveus, Wall. Cat. 734; eglandular, bristles 0, branches and 

 petioles glabrous or tomentose, prickles recurved, leaflets 3 (rarely 5 ) coarsely 

 or finely double-toothed lateral obliquely ovate acuminate terminal elliptic ovate 

 or rounded lobulate or lobed, glabrous above, usually white with dense pubes- 

 cence beneath, stipules filiform, flowers in lateral and terminal few-flowered 

 tomentose corymbs, calyx-lobes acuminate or caudate, petals small obovate pink, 

 carpels many villous. R. gracilis, Roxb. Cat. Hort. JBeny. 39 ; Fl. Ind. ii. 519. 



Temperate Himalaya, from KASHMIR to BHOTAN, at elevation of 6-10,000 ft. in 

 the west and 5-11,500 ft. in the east, 



A large rambling bush, without bristles or gland-tipped hairs ; very variable in 

 all its parts. Stem stout and branches often purple, young often quite glabrous and 

 glaucous or thickly or thinly tomentose ; prickles short, scattered, pale. Leaflets 

 1-5 in., entire or lobulate, toothed or crenate, acute acuminate or caudate, terminal 

 sometimes cordate, usually membranous and glabrous, above sometimes (R. concolor} 

 green and glabrous beneath also ; petiole slender, 1-2 in., with usually 1-2 prickles. 

 Flowers \-\ in. diam., usually on slender unarmed pedicels, lower axillary often soli- 

 tary, upper corymbosely arranged on a long peduncle, nodding ; bracts filiform. Calyx- 

 tube short, flat ; lobes ovate-lanceolate, quite entire, 5 in., tomentose on both 

 surfaces, spreading or reflexed in fruit. Petals much smaller than the calyx-lobes. 

 Stamens very numerous. Fruit globose, large or small, of few or many dry or fleshy 

 drupes ; stone pitted. Closely allied to It. lasiocarpus. I find it impossible to 

 arrange satisfactorily the forms of this most puzzling plant; the following are 

 noticeable. 



VAR. niveus proper ( Wall. Cat. 734), softly pubescent, leaflets 2-3 in. membranous 

 ovate-lanceolate caudate-acuminate lobulate and very acutely deeply toothed, corymbs 

 of 10-12 shorly pedicelled flowers in. diam. Nepal and all along the Himalaya. 



VAR. pedunculosus ; more robust, leaflets 3-5 in. broader bases more rounded, 

 flowers solitary or in pairs on slender pedicels in. diam., R. pedunculosus, Don 

 Prodr. 234 ; Wall. Cat. 729. Nepal, Sikkim. 



VAR. racemosus ; softly tomentose, flowers in short terminal racemes shortly pedi- 

 celled suberect. Kashmir, Jacguemont, Falconer. Murree, Fleming (" fruit large yellow 

 brown "). Kashmir, Clarke (fruit bright red) who also has a densely cottony subvar. 

 with abbreviated racemes (Kashmir, 8000 ft.). This resembles what a hybrid with 

 corylifolius might be, 



VAR. hypargyrus ; leaflets ^-1 in., sometimes 5, doubly serrately-toothed membra- 

 nous hoary beneath all over or on the nerves only, or quite glabrous. R. hypargyrus, 

 Edgw. in Trans. Linn. Soc. xx. 45. R. concolor, Royle MSB. Approaches It. lasio- 

 carpus. 



VAR. Aitchisoni ; slender, finely tomentose, leaflets broad membranous with very 

 large crenatures, fruit f in. diam. of very numerous orange fleshy almost glabrous 

 drupes. Kashmir common at 7000 ft., Aitchison " fruit eatable." 



VAR. microcarpa ; branches and petiole (6 in.) nearly glabrous, leaflets 4-6 in. 

 broad membranous lobulate and crenate, flowers in., fruit very small of 30-40 quite 

 glabrous dry drupes. Sikkim, Lachen, alt. 9000 ft., J. D. H. 



VAR. concolor ; leaflets as variable as any of above forms, usually membranous 

 glabrous or nearly so beneath acutely inciso-serrate or toothed or coarsely crenate, 

 flowers corymbose, sepals -1 in. R. concolor, Wall. Cat. 733. From Kashmir to 

 Kumaon. This passes into var. hypargyrus. 



VAR. Falconeri ; similar to var. concolor but carpels quite glabrous ! N. "W. India, 

 Falconer. On the Kishengunga west from Kashmir, Stewart. This connects R. niveus 

 with R. coesius, L. 



According to priority, Roxburgh's name of S. gracilis should be retained for this 



