LI. ROSACES. (J. D. Hooker.) 339 



35. R. lasiocarpus, Smith in Rees Cyclop, xxx. Rubus 6 ; eglandular, 

 prickles scattered stout straight or hooked, branches glabrous very glaucous, 

 leaflets 5-9 ovate elliptic or ovate-lanceolate acutely toothed or serrate, beneath 

 ribbed and usually hoary with white tomentmn, terminal alone lobulate, stipules 

 subulate, corymbs small axillary and terminal tomentose, petals small red, 

 carpels many tomentose. DC. Prodr. ii. 558. Wight. $ Am. Prodr. 299; 

 Wight. Ic. t. 232 ; Grah. Cat. Bomb. PL 64 ; Dak. $ Gibs. Bomb. Flor. 89 ; 

 Kurz For. Flor. Brit. Burm. i. 439. R. distans, Don Prodr. 256 (pinnatus 234). 

 R. Horsfieldii, Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. i. part 1, 375. R. albescens, Roxb. Hort. 

 Beng. 39 ; Flor. Ind. ii. 519. R. rosseflorus, Roxb. Fl. Ind. ii. 519. R. ro- 

 tundifolius, Royle HI. 203 (name only). R. mysorensis, Heyne in Roth Nov. 

 Gen. fy Sp. 235. R. indicus, Heyne MSS. ? R. parvifolius, Moon Cat. Ceyl. 

 PL R. furfuraceus, Wall. Cat. 739. R. bijugus, Focke Batogr. in Abhandl. 

 Naturwiss. Verein, Bremen, iv. 200 (1874). 



Temperate Himalaya, from MURREE and KASHMIR, alt. 5-8000 ft. (ascending 

 to 1500ft. in Kumaon), to SIKKIM, alt. 4-10,000 ft. BURMA. WESTERN PENINSULA 

 on the higher Ghats from Canara southwards. CEYLON, central province, alt. 

 4-7000 ft. DISTRIB. Java. 



A large rambling very variable plant ; -branches cylindric, with coloured pruinose 

 bark, the very young only tomentose ; prickles compressed, variable in size and 

 curvature, extending to the petioles and rachis, but not or rarely to the inflorescence. 

 Leaves 310 in. ; leaflets 13 in., rather coriaceous, opaque, glabrous or silky above, 

 almost plaited by the strong straight nerves, which are very prominent beneath, some- 

 times very acute, often doubly toothed and mucronate, terminal usually broad-ovate, 

 or even orbicular, rounded acute or cordate at the base ; lateral sessile, rarely ovate or 

 orbicular; petiole stout, grooved above, glabrous and shining or tomentose ; stipules 

 \ in., linear-subulate. Corymbs axillary and terminal, simple or subpanicled, densely 

 tomentose or villous, or merely puberulous, on short or long (1-2 in.) peduncles, 

 2- many -flowered ; pedicels long or short ; bracts setaceous or filiform. Flowers i~f 

 in. diam Calyx densely woolly ; tube small ; lobes ovate or ovate-lanceolate, acute 

 acuminate or caudate, spreading or suberect in fruit ; laciniate and much lengthened 

 in Moulmayne specimens. Petals deep pink, orbicular or broadly obovate, rarely 

 exceeding the calyx. Fruit |-| in. diam., globose, hoary ; drupes numerous, dry, or 

 fleshy and then red or orange ; stone pitted ; receptacle columnar, villous. 



It is as difficult to define the varieties of this Eubus as it is those of R. niveus, to 

 which they are in a degree analogous, and it is also difficult to separate the three 

 following species from it by constant definable characters. 



VAR. furfuraceus ; a large form, leaflets narrow l-2 in. grey with very fine 

 down beneath, corymbs paniculate, terminal large much branched. E. furfuraceus, 

 Wall. Cat. 739, Ava. 



VAR. pauciflorus, a large very common Himalayan form, glabrous and shining 

 except the white undersurface of the leaves, with corymbs of many crowded small pu- 

 berulous flowers. K. pauciflorus, Wall. Cat. 727 ; Lindl. in Bot. Reg. t. 854. E. longi- 

 folius, Wall. MSS. E. Ischelus, Herb. Ham. E. distans, Don Prodr. 256 (pin- 

 natus, 234). 



VAR. micranthus ; much smaller in all its parts, leaves almost glaucous beneath. 

 E. micranthus, Don Prodr. 235. Nipal, Wallich. 



VAR. sericeus ; leaflets 2-3 in. coarsely serrate pale green membranous beautifully 

 silky on both surfaces paler but not white beneath, corymbs many-flowered, sepals 

 lanceolate. Kishtwar, Thomson. 



VAR. membranaceus ; leaflets 2-3 in. coarsely crenate-toothed very membranous 

 perfectly glabrous above faintly downy beneath, corymb terminal compound. Ku- 

 maon, Strach. $ Winterb. (18). Sikkim, J. D. H. 



VAR. rosatfolius ; quite glabrous except the branches of the corymbs and margins of 

 sepals, leaflets 1-1 in. inci so-serrate membranous, dark brown when dry, flowers 

 small in axillary corymbs, sepals with filiform points. Sikkim, alt. 9-10,000 ft., J. D. H. 



VAR. subalaber, Thwaites Enum. 101 ; leaflets 1-1 in. rounded, finely crenate- 



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