198 XXXII. KOSACEiE. [Rubi 



Himalaya, from the Indus to Bhutan. Kasia hills, mountains of Soutl 

 India. In the N.W. Himalaya and Siwalik tract, at elevations between 1500 

 and 8000 ft. Fl. March ; fruit ripens April, May. 



4. R. lasiocarpus, Sm. ; W. & A. Prodr. 299 ; Wight Ic. t. 232. 

 Syn. R. racemosus and albescens, Roxb. ii. 519 ; R. mysorensis, Heyne. 

 Vern. Gundcha, pagwidi, pukdna, Hazara ; Kandiari, Jcharmuch, sur- 

 ganch, gurdcha, Kashmir ; Tulanch, Chenab ; Niu, kallidchi, Bias ; Kdla- 

 war, kala hisalu, Garhwal, Kamaon. 



A spreading shrub, with long stems, rooting at the extremities, armed 

 with few straight or curved sharp prickles. Branches round, often purple, 

 glabrous, or pruinose, rarely with glandular hairs. Leaves canescent or 

 white-tomentose beneath, imparipinnate ; leaflets 2-5 pair, ovate or ovate- 

 lanceolate, with large serratures> the terminal leaflet often lobed. Flowers 

 on long slender pedicels, in lax corymbose panicles. Inflorescence and 

 calyx white-tomentose ; petals red, shorter than the ovate-lanceolate calyx- 

 lobes. Fruit white-tomentose when unripe, black when ripe. 



Abundant throughout the Himalaya, the Kasia hills, the mountains of Burma, 

 South India, and Ceylon. In the North-West Himalaya, and in the Siwalik 

 tract, at elevations between 2000 and 8000 ft. Bare in the Peshawar valley, pro- 

 bably brought down by the rivers. Fl. March, April ; fruit ripens June, July. 

 Fruit very good to eat. Hardy in England. 



5. R. rosaefolius, Sm. ; DC. Prodr. ii. 556. Syn. R. rosceflorus, Eoxb. 

 ii. 519 ; R. pungens, Cambess. in Jacqu. Bot. t. 59. Vern. Kandchi, 

 Hazara, Khagan ; Yeshul, Kamaon, Garhwal. 



A spreading shrub, armed with straight and curved prickles, glabrous, 

 or with glandular hairs. Leaves imparipinnate, leaflets 1-3 pair, lanceo- 

 late, deep and irregularly serrate or lobed ; stipules lanceolate. Flowers 

 on long slender pedicels, axillary, or in lax terminal corymbs. Calyx- 

 lobes ovate-lanceolate, long-aristate, J-l in. long, as long as, or a little 

 shorter than, the large white petals. Fruit oblong, or cylindrical, red 

 when ripe. 



Himalaya from Hazara to Assam. Kasia hills. Java, China, Japan. In the 

 North -West Himalaya between 5000 and 10,000 ft. Often cultivated with 

 double flowers, var. coronarius. Bot. Mag. t. 1 783. 



6. R. biflorus, Buch. ; DC. Prodr. ii. 558 ; Bot. Mag. t. 4678. Yern. 

 Chanch, kantanch, khaniara, Kashmir ; Karer, akhreri, akhe, Ravi. 



A large spreading shrub, armed with scattered sharp prickles, subulate 

 from a broad base, the branches covered with a white pruinose coating, 

 which is easily rubbed off. Leaves imparipinnate, leaflets generally 1 pair 

 only, ovate-lanceolate, deep- and irregularly serrate, the terminal leaflet 

 often lobed ; stipules lanceolate. Flowers white, on long slender pedicel 

 solitary, or in fascicles of 2 or 3 in the axils of the upper leaves ; calyx- 

 lobes ovate-lanceolate, shortly aristate, as long as petals. Fruit drooping, 

 subglobose, red or deep orange, sweet. 



Himalaya from Hazara to Bhutan. North-West Himalaya from 4000-10,000 

 ft. Fl. April, May. Hardy in England. 



