ubus.^ ROSACEAE. 439 



A small tree with small leaves racemes and flowers, the 

 fruit large. 



3. PYGEUM WIGHTIANUM, Bl.; F. B. I. ii. 319. P. ceylanicum, 

 Bedd. Fl. t. 59. 



"W. Ghats, from Mysore to the Nilgiris, Pulneys and 

 Travancore Hills, at 3,000-6,000 ft. 



A large and handsome tree with white flowers, the leaves, 

 fruit and bark smelling of prussic acid. Bark dark brown, 

 rough; wood hard, pink, mottled and streaked. Yern. 

 Tarn. Palan kacchi ; MaL Nai kambagam. 



4. PYGEUM GARDNERI, Hook. f. in F. B. I. ii. 321. P. acumi- 

 natum, Wt. Ic. t. 993. 



W. Ghats, in the hills of Malabar, Nilgiris, Pulneys and 

 Travancore, above 3,000 ft. 



A medium-sized tree, glabrous except the inflorescence, the 

 leaf-glands only occasionally found. 



5. PYGEUM ANDERSONI, Hook. f. in F. B. I. ii. 320. 



E. Ghats, Mahendragiri Hill in Ganjam at 4,500 ft. 

 (Gamble, Fischer). 



A tree or shrub, noticeable for its serrate leaves, glabrous 

 except the margins of the rather long petals. 



3. Rubus, Linn. 



Creeping herbs or erect or climbing shrubs, usually prickly. 

 Leaves alternate, simple or compound ; stipules free or adnate to 

 the petiole. Flowers in terminal or axillary corymbose panicles, 

 rarely solitary, white or red ; bracts various ; bracteoles usually 

 femall or 0. Calyx-tube broad ; lobes 5, persistent. Disk 

 lining the calyx-tube. Petals 5. Stamens many, inserted on the 

 mouth of the calyx-tube. Carpels many, on a convex receptacle ; 

 ovules 2, collateral, pendulous ; style subterminal, filiform ; stigma 

 capitate. Fruit a cluster of small fleshy 1- seeded drupes crowded 

 on the receptacle, rarely few. Seed pendulous ; cotyledons plano- 

 convex ; radicle superior. 



Leaves simple, 5-lobed, the under- surf ace, the nerves on the upper 

 surface, the branchlets and inflorescence more or less clothed .with 

 white or fulvous tomentum ; prickles comparatively few, short, re- 

 curved : 



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