336 LI. ROSACES. (J. D. Hooker.) \Eubus. 



plant, but I am disinclined to replace so excellent, well known and suggestive a one 

 as niveus for another that is in no way distinctive of the species. 



26. It. macilentus, Camb. inJacquem. Toy. l?o.49,t.60; nearly glabrous, 

 eglandular, prickles stout flattened straight or hooked, leaflets 3 ovate or ovate- 

 lanceolate obtuse acute or acuminate doubly-crenate-toothed, stipules setaceous, 

 peduncles axillary and subterminal 1-3-flowered, carpels many glabrous. R. 

 uncatus, Wall. Cat. 750. R. asper, Hb. Roi/le. 



Temperate Himalaya ; from HAZARA, alt. 4-6000 ft., Stewart, and KISHTWAR, alt. 

 5-9000 ft. to SIKKIM and BHOTAN, alt. 6-9000 ft. 



Stems trailing, stout, red-brown, obtusely angled, shining ; prickles much flat- 

 tened, - in. Leaflets ^-2 in., rigidly coriaceous, brown when dry, glabrous on both 

 surfaces, terminal usually ovate-lanceolate long-acuminate, lateral sessile, smaller, 

 sometimes orbicular ; midrib beneath with hooked prickles ; petiole stiff, sometimes 

 pubescent along the grooved upper surface. Flowers in. diam. ; peduncles -f in., 

 pubescent, rarely 2-3-flowered. Calyx silky outside, tomentose within ; lobes cau- 

 date, erect in fruit. Petals orbicular-obovate, clawed, exceeding the sepals, white. 

 Fruit globose, enclosed in the calyx ; drupes 20-30, yellow or red, glabrous, seated on 

 a columnar pubescent receptacle ; stone rugged. 



27. R. sikkimensis, Hook. f. ; glandular-hairy and covered with long- 

 straight prickles, leaflets 3 ovate acuminate lobulate and coarsely crenate glan- 

 dular above nearly glabrous beneath, stipules linear, peduncles axillary 1-2- 

 flowered, calyx glandular and hispid, lobes caudate, carpels numerous glabrous. 



Subalpine SIKKIM HIMALAYA; Lachen, alt. 12-13,000 ft., J. D. H. 



A small shrub, dark brown when dry ; stems stout ; gland-tipped hairs long 

 spreading, half as long as the quite-straight shining prickles. Leaflets 1-2 in., ter- 

 minal, sometimes deltoid-ovate, base rounded or subcordate, lateral subsessile, smaller, 

 narrower ; petiole 1-3 in., very slender, pubescent ; stipules ^ in. Peduncles -1 in. r 

 ubescent glandular and bristly as is the calyx. Flowers f in. diam., inclined. Ca- 

 lyx-lobes lanceolate, pubescent on both surfaces. Petals red-purple. This in many- 

 respects resembles E. punaens, Camb., and E. horriduhis, H. f. 



28. R. ellipticus, Smith in Rees Cyclop, xxx, Rubus 16 ; shaggy with 

 spreading flexuous hairs, prickles scattered stout hooked, leaflets 3 orbicular obo- 

 vate or elliptic obtuse or abruptly acute toothed pale and pubescent beneath, 

 panicles axillary and terminal dense-flowered, calyx-lobes mucronate or acumi- 

 nate, cartels silky. DC. Prodr. ii. 563 ; Wall. Cat. 740 in part. R. rotundi- 

 folius, Watt. Gat. 730. R. Gowry-phul, Roxb. Hort. Beny. 39. R. Gowreephul, 

 Roxb. Fl Ind. ii. 517; W. $ A. Prodr. 298 ; Wight Ic. t. 230. R. flavus, 

 Ham. in Don, Prodr. 234; Brand. For. Flor. 197 ; Kurz, For. Flor. Brit. Burm. 

 i. 438. R. sessilifolius, Miq. PL Ind. Or. Hohmack, 438, 1153. ? R. paniculatus,. 

 Moon. Cat. Ceyl. PL 



Temperate and subtropical Himalaya, from SIRMUR, alt. 2-7000 ft. to SIKKIM, alt. 

 4-7000 ft. and BHOTAN. KHASIA MTS., alt. 4-5000 ft. BIRMA. Western Ghats from 

 CANARA southwards. CETLON, central province, alt. 4-7000 ft. DISTRIB. Yunan. 



A tall suberect bush ; branches stout, spreading and recurved, obscurely angled ; 

 hairs red-brown, often very dense, covering a softer down with occasional glandular 

 hairs ; prickles stout, hardly compressed. Leaflets 2-4 in., coriaceous, dark green 

 above, rarely glabrous beneath ; petiole 1-3 in. ; stipules subulate. Panicles small, 

 many-flowered, pedicels short ; bracts setaceous. Flowers ^- in. diam. Calyx 

 densely pubescent and bristly or not ; lobes ovate, acute acuminate or obtuse and mu- 

 cronate, erect in fruit. Petals obovate, larger than the calyx, white. Stamens 

 1 -seriate. Fruit globose, exposed; drupes on a cylindric hairy receptacle, many, 

 golden yellow, succulent ; stone rugose. 



VAR. hirta ; leaflets green beneath. E. hirtus, Roxb. Hort. Beng. 38 ; FL Ind. ii. 



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