The young wood and spines are red, the small flowers pink, followed 

 by woolly fruit. 



Eaised from seed collected in Central China, this fine species flowered 

 at Coombe Wood in 1905. 



EUBUS ICHANGENSIS, Hemsl. & 0. Knntze. 



Hemsley in Jour. Linn. Soc. vol. xxiii. p. 231. 



Introduced through Wilson, who collected seeds in 1901, in the neigh- 

 bourhood of Ichang, in which locality it had previously been met with 

 by Dr. Henry, from whose material it was described. 



Mr. Hemsley states (I.e. supra), "The elongated, cordiform, distantly 

 toothed, glabrous, or early glabrescent leaves, associated with small 

 flowers and few ovaries are especially characteristic of this species." 



RUBUS INNOMINATUS, 8. Moore. 



Gard. Chron. 1905, vol. xxxviii. p. 291, fig. 112. 



A handsome bramble introduced to cultivation from the Province of 

 Hupeh, with leaves usually trifoliate, green above, white beneath ; the 

 stems covered with a curiously soft pubescence which gives a velvety 

 impression to the touch. 



The feature is the bright orange- scarlet colour of the fruit. 



Throughout the month of September, when the large panicles of these 

 are at their best, the plant presents a remarkably striking and ornamental 

 picture, as decorative as any spring-flowering shrub. The fruits edible, 

 resemble in flavour those of the common blackberry, but differ in being 

 of a larger size and more flat in general shape. 



RUBUS IREN^US, Focke. 



A trailing species with heart-shaped or occasionally slightly trilobed 

 leaves, dark green above, dun-coloured beneath with serrate margins, 

 suitable for covering low banks or for the margins of woods and planta- 

 tions where the long shoots can ramble unrestricted. 



RUBUS LAMBERTIANUS, Ser., var. GLABER, Hemsl. 



A simple-leaved species with remarkable young shoots glandular and 

 sticky to the touch, with the stipules of the leaves divided into about five 

 unequal bristle-like segments. 



The leaves cordate at the base, slightly trilobed, acute, with dentate 

 margins bi'ight green and glossy on the upper surface, are pale green 

 beneath. 



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