442 FLORA OF MADRAS. [Rubus. 



8. RUBUS NIVEUS. Thunb. Dissert. 9, fig. 3 not of Wall. 

 R. laswcarpus, Sm. ; F. B. I. ii. 339 ; W. & A. 299 ; Wt. Ic. 

 t. 232. 



N". Oircars, Deccan and Carnatic, in hills above 4.000 ft. ; 



W. Ghats, in all Districts, on Shola margins and in open 



forest. 



A straggling shrub, the leaves usually very white beneath ; 



fruit edible but dry and the seeds with a woolly coat. 

 Yar. subglaber, Thw. Leaves not white beneath, glabrous 



except on the nerves ; thorns large, recurved from broad 



Nilgiri and Pulney Hills, at high elevations. 



9. RUBUS RACEMOSUS, Roxb. ; F. B. I. ii. 340. 



Nilgiri hills, at high elevations, above 6,000 ft. 

 A straggling shrub very closely allied to R. ni>:eus, chiefly 

 differing in the glandular hairs, especially on the calyx- 

 tube. 



Riibiis Idaeus, Linn., the Raspberry, is found in cultivation in 

 hill stations. 



4. Fragaria, Linn. 



Perennial scapigerous herbs with creeping stolons. Leaves 

 digitately 3- rarely 5-foliolate, rarely pinnate or simple ; stipules 

 adnate to the petiole. Floivers white or yellow, often polygamous, 

 cymose on erect scapes ; bracts leafy ; bracteoles 5, close under 

 the calyx. Petals 5. Stamens many, 1-seriate, persistent ; fila- 

 ments filiform ; anthers didymous. Carpels many, on a convex 

 receptacle ; styles lateral ; ovules 2, collateral, pendulous. Fruit 

 of many achenes, sunk in the surface of the fleshy receptacle. 

 Seeds minute ; cotyledons plano-convex ; radicle superior. 



Flowers yellow, solitary, bracteoles broad, 3-5-fid at apex ; leaflets 

 3-5, obovate, usually crenate ; peduncles shortly whitish-villous, 

 25-1 in. long; slender plants with the ripe receptacles red...l. indica. 

 Flowers white, in cymes, bracteoles deeply bifid in 2 lanceolate lobes -, 

 leaflets 3, obovate, coarsely dentate ; peduncles densely golden-villous, 

 1-1 '5 in. long; robust plants with the ripe receptacles white tinged 

 with pink 2. nilgerrensis. 



1. FRAGARIA INDICA, Andr. ; F. B. I. ii. 343; W. & A. 300; 

 Wt. Ic. t. 989. 



