338 LI. ROSACES. (J. D. Hooker.) [Eulus. 



prickles, leaflets 3 (rarely 5) broad-ovate coarsely acutely doubly crenate white 

 beneath, cymes axillary few-flowered, flowers drooping, carpels pubescent. 



Western temperate Himalaya, KTTNAWUK, in the Tibetan region, alt. 11-14,000 ft., 

 T. Thomson. DISTRIB. N. China. 



Branches stout, shining, pale or dark yellowish ; purple glandular hairs few, scat- 

 tered; prickles short, flattened, straighter on the petioles and inflorescence. Leaflets 

 2-4 in., glabrous above, terminal broad-ovate or orbicular, cordate ; lateral sessile, 

 smaller ; petiole 1-3 in., stout, pale, coloured like the stem ; stipules setaceous, glan- 

 dular. Flowers in. diam., solitary in the lower axils, 2-4 in peduncled cymes in 

 the upper. Calyx pubescent and bristly ; lobes ovate-lanceolate, finely acuminate, 

 erect in fruit. Petals smaller than the calyx, orbicular-oblong, Fruit enclosed in 

 the calyx, globose, red, of many (about 20) tomentose drupes situated on a columnar 

 pubescent receptacle ; endocarp pitted. Very near R. colchicus, Herb. Stev., from the 

 Caucasus, if not a few-flowered variety of that plant. Jaeschke sends 5-foliolate 

 leaves of apparently this species from Lahul. 



VAR. subinermis, more slender and lax with the prickles reduced almost to bristles. 

 Kishtwar, Thomson ; Kashmir, Falconer, alt. 9250 ft., C. B. Clarke ; common in 

 water channels at 8-10,000 ft., Aitchieson. Clearly a lax state of the Tibetan drier 

 climate prickly plant. 



33. It. lucens, Focke Batogr. in Abhandl. Naturwiss. Verein, Bremen, iv. 

 199 (1874) ; eglandular, almost glabrous, prickles scattered short hooked, leaf- 

 lets 3 ovate elliptic orbicular or ovate-lanceolate caudate-acuminate serrate 

 shining above, stipules linear, racemes axillary and terminal long slender, carpels 

 few hirsute. R. Isevigatus, Wall. Cat. 1280. 



KHASIA MTS., alt. 3-4000 ft., Simons, &c. ; ASSAM, Jenkins ; MISHMI HILLS, 

 Griffith. 



Stem very stout, climbing lofty trees ; branches angled, grooved, quite smooth ; 

 prickles very short. Leaflets 4-5 in., brown when dry, coriaceous, serratures simple, 

 acute, petiolules short and nerves beneath puberulous ; petiole 2-6 in., prickles many 

 or few ; stipules almost setaceous. Panicles 6-12 in., lower sometimes crowded in the 

 leaf-axils ; terminal slender, pubescent ; bracts subulate. Flowers small, 5 in. diam., 

 in fascicles or short corymbs ; pedicels slender. Calyx densely hoary ; tube very 

 short; lobes oblong, obtuse or apiculate, erect in fruit. Petals equalling the sepals, 

 pink or white, obovate, clawed. Stamens 20-30, in one series. Fruit enclosed in 

 the calyx ; drupes 6-8, sweet ; stone rugose ; receptacle low, pubescent. 



SECT. IV. Shrubs. Leaves pinuately 5-7-foliolate, upper (or all in 37. 

 foliolosus) sometimes 3-foliolate. 



34. XI. biflorus, Ham. ; Smith in Rees Cyclop, xxx. Rubus 9 ; eglandular, 

 prickles strong hooked, leaflets 3 or 5 ovate lobulate doubly toothed white and 

 tomentose beneath, stipules linear-lanceolate, flowers 1-3 together on axillary 

 slender peduncles drooping, calyx-lobes broad-ovate acuminate, carpels nume- 

 rous woolly above. Wall. Cat. 735 ; DC. Prodr. ii. 558 ; Bot. Mag. t. 4678. 



Temperate Himalaya ; from SIRMORE, alt. 7-9000 ft., to SIKKIM, alt. 8000 ft., 

 and BHOTAN. 



A strong rambling shrub ; stems and branches quite glabrous, white with 

 glaucous bloom ; prickles very strong and much recurved. Leaves chiefly on short 

 lateral branches; upper sometimes 1-foliolate and 3-lobed ; leaflets l-l in., rarely 

 more, acutely tootned or serrate, pnbescent or hairy above, densely tomentose 

 beneath ; petiole slender, 1-2 in., prickly, pubescent ; stipules in. Peduncles |-l 

 .in., unarmed or prickly, usually glabrous ; bracts subulate. Flowers A-f in. diam. 

 Calyx pubescent on both surfaces or glabrate outside ; lobes broad, suberect or 

 spreading in fruit. Petals equalling or exceeding the calyx, orbicular, white. 

 Stamens numerous. Fruit globose, f in. diam. ; drupes 20-30 golden yellow, suc- 

 culent ; stone reticulated with pits ; receptacle columnar, villous. 



