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surfaces, prickly on the middle nerve beneath ; branches terete, 

 tomentose ; prickles scattered, recurved ; stipulas jagged ; ra- 

 cemes terminal, drooping, prickly ; flowers glomerate ; calycine 

 segments ovate, acute, clothed with silky pubescence, nearly 

 entire. Tj . G. Native of Java, on Mount Gede. Like R. 

 elongatus, Smith. 



Glomerate-fiovrered Bramble. Shrub. 



140 R. SUNDA'ICUS (Blum.bijdr. 1111.) leaves cordate, acute, 

 obsoletely angular, unequally toothed, smooth above, but covered 

 with cobwebbed tomentum beneath, as well as on the branchlets, 

 and with prickles on the middle nerve ; prickles of branches scat- 

 tered and recurved ; racemes terminal ; flowers sub-umbellate ; 

 calycine segments ovate, acuminated, rather serrated, tomentose. 

 fj . S. Native of the islands in the Malay Archipelago. 



Var. ft, discolor (Blum. 1. c.) leaves smaller, denticulated, 

 clothed with grey tomentum beneath ; segments of the calyx 

 entire. T? . S. Native of Java. Perhaps a proper species. 



Sunda Bramble. Shrub. 



141 R. ELONGA'TUS (Smith, icon. ined. fasc. 3. t. 62.) branches 

 clothed with cobwebbed tomentum ; prickles scattered and re- 

 curved ; leaves cordate, acuminated, acutely crenated, tomentose 

 beneath ; stipulas jagged ; panicle drooping, prickly ; peduncles 

 tomentose ; bracteas deciduous ; calycine segments obtuse, 

 hardly the length of the tube and shorter than the petals, which 

 are obovate. '7.8. Native of Java. Corolla white. Fruit red. 



Elongated Bramble. Shrub. 



142 R. PANICULA'TUS (Smith, in Rees' cycl. vol. 30. but not 

 of Schlecht.) branches terete, villous ; prickles scattered, re- 

 curved ; leaves cordate, acuminated, slightly lobed, and serrated, 

 tomentose beneath ; panicle villous, rather loose ; calycine seg- 

 ments oval, acute, villous, but not silky ; petals small. Jj . H. 

 Native of Nipaul. Fruit black. Panicles terminal. 



Panicled Bramble. Shrub. 



143 R. PYRIFOLIUS (Smith, icon. ined. fasc. 3. p. 61.) branches 

 flexuous, hairy ; prickles scattered ; leaves oblong, acuminated, 

 serrated, glabrous on both surfaces ; panicle many-flowered, 

 rather thyrsoid, with corymbose branches ; bracteas cut, pubes- 

 cent, deciduous ; calycine segments lanceolate, acute, outer ones 

 jagged; petals very minute, toothed at the apex. Tj . S. Native 

 of Java. 



Pear-leaved Bramble. Shrub. 



144 R. CORCHORIFOLIUS (Lin. fil. suppl. 263.) stem and 

 branches tomentose ; prickles recurved ; leaves ovate, cordate, 

 acute, slightly lobed, clothed with hoary tomentum, the middle 

 nerve furnished with prickles above ; peduncles axillary, soli- 

 tary, 1-flowered, tomentose. Tj . G. Native of Japan. R. 

 villosus, Thunb. fl. jap. 218. but not of Ait. Petals hardly 

 longer than the corolla. 



Corchorus-leaved Bramble. Shrub. 



145 R. LAMBERTIA'NUS (Ser. in D. C. prod. 2. p. 567.) 

 branches nearly terete, rather pilose ; prickles recurved ; leaves 

 cordate, acuminated, slightly lobed, serrulated ; stipulas fringed ; 

 flowers panicled ; peduncles pubescent ; calycine segments pu- 

 berulous, lanceolate, acuminated, with tomentose margins ; petals 

 obovate, cuneated, narrow, length of calyx. Ij . G. Native of 

 China. 



Lambert's Bramble. Shrub. 



146 R. ACUMINA'TUS (Smith, in Rees' cycl. vol. 30.) leaves 

 ovate, cordate, acuminated, smooth, unequally serrated, rounded 

 at the base ; stipulas minute, gland-formed ; flowers sub-race- 

 mose ; pedicels 2-6-together, naked as well as the calyxes ; 

 branches terete, glabrous, furnished with a few distant prickles 

 as well as on the petioles. ^ . H. Native of Nipaul. R. betu- 

 linus, D. Don, prod. fl. nep. p. 233. Leaves like those of the 

 birch or hornbeam. Terminal flowers panicles. 



Acuminated-leaved Bramble. Shrub 4 to 6 feet. 



147 R. FNDICUS (Leschen. in litt. D. C. prod. 2. p. 56 S.) 

 branches terete, tomentose ; prickles scattered, short, com- 

 pressed, reflexed ; leaves elliptic, acuminated, regularly serrated, 

 glabrous ; middle nerve prickly ; stipulas wanting or setaceously 

 fringed ; flowers small, numerous, panicled ; bracteas setaceously 

 fringed ; calycine segments lanceolate, acute, puberulous, re- 

 flexed ; petals very narrow, length of calyx ; carpels 3-4, ovate- 

 triquetrous. J? . S. Native of the East Indies. R. hexagynus, 

 Roxb. Panicle large, downy. 



Indian Bramble. Shrub 4 to 6 feet. 



Cult. The shrubby kinds of bramble are easily propagated 

 by suckers from the root or by cuttings. The herbaceous spe- 

 cies thrive best in peat soil, and are also increased by suckers. 



IX. DALIBA'RDA (in honour of Denis Dalibard, a French 

 botanist). Lin. spec. ed. 1. p. 431. Michx. fl. bor. amer. 1. 

 p. 299. Richard, in Nestl. pot. p. 16. t. 1. D. C. prod. 2. 

 p. 568. 



LIN. SYST. Icosandrla, Polygijnia. Calyx with a short, con- 

 cave tube, and with a 5-6-cleft or toothed limb ; lobes toothed. 

 Petals 5, deciduous. Stamens numerous. Ovaries 3-12, end- 

 ing in short terminal styles. Akenia involucrated by the calyx, 

 seated on a dry villous receptacle, dry or fleshy. Seed pendulous. 

 Herbs or shrubs with petiolate simple leaves, with scape-formed 

 1-flowered peduncles or panicles of flowers. 



* Herbaceous. Peduncles scape-formed, l-Jlowered. 



1 D. RE'VENS (Lin. spec. ed. 1. p. 401.) stems creeping; 

 leaves cordate, obtuse, crenated, pubescent ; stipulas linear- 

 setaceous ; calyx pilose, reflexed. If. . H. Native of Canada, 

 about Quebec and Montreal, and about Lake Huron ; New 

 England, and Pennsylvania. Rubus Dalibarda, Lin. spec. 708. 

 Smith, icon. ined. t. 20. D. cordata, Steph. act. soc. mosc. 1. 

 p. 92. D. violseoides, Michx. fl. bor. amer. 1. p. 299. t. 27. 

 Flowers white. 



Creeping Dalibarda. Fl. May, June. Clt. 1768. PI. cr. 



2 D. CALYCINA (D. C. prod. 2. p. 568.) stems creeping, and 

 are as well as the petioles villous and bristly ; leaves orbicular, 

 cordate, crenated, villous ; stipulas ovate, serrated ; calyx vil- 

 lous and bristly, with the segments foliaceous and deeply toothed, 

 longer than the petals. Tf.. H. Native of Nipaul, in Gosaings- 

 than. Rubus calycmus, Wall, in litt. ex D. Don, prod. fl. nep. 

 235. Petals obovate, yellow. Habit of the preceding species, 

 but differs in the stems being more elongated, bristly, and villous. 



Large-calyxed Dalibarda. PI. creeping. 



3 D. GEOIDES (Pers. ench. 2. p. 53.) leaves usually trifid or 

 ternate, the terminal lobe large and ovate, and irregularly ser- 

 rated, the lateral ones small, usually wanting, or joined with the 

 terminal one. If. . H. Native of the Straits of Magellan. 

 Rubus geoides, Smith, icon. ined. t. 19. Flowers yellow. 



Geum-like Dalibarda. PL creeping. 



* * Shrubs. Flowers disposed in panicles. 



4 D. PYRIFOLIA (Blum, bijdr. 1112.) leaves simple, oblong, 

 acuminated, serrated, pubescent on the veins ; prickles scattered, 

 recurved ; branches of panicles sub-corymbose ; flowers 3-4- 

 gynous. Tj S. Native of Java. Rubus pyrif olius, Smith, 

 icon. ined. fasc. 3. t. 61. Calycine segments jagged. Petals 

 small, yellow ? toothed at the apex. 



Pear-leaved Dalibarda. Shrub creeping ? 



5 D. LATIFOLIA (Blum, bijdr. 1112.) leaves simple, roundish- 

 ovate, deeply serrated, pubescent beneath ; prickles small, re- 

 curved ; branches of panicle corymbose ; flowers polygynous. 

 Tj . S. Native of Java, in the province of Tjanjor. Flowers 

 yellow ? 



Broad-leaved Dalibarda. Shrub creeping? 



Cult. The herbaceous kinds of this genus do best in a 



