Plants of the Punjab. 



107 



Shrubs with Alternate Stipulate Compound Leaves. 



Petals ununited. 



Rubus niveus, 



EOSACB^. 



F. B. I. ii. 335. 

 Himalaya, 

 6-10,000 ft. 

 Kashmir. 



Rubus macilentus, 



Rubus ellipticus, 



Rubus fruticosus, 



Rubus antennifer, 

 Rubus purpureus, 



Rubus pungens, 



Rubus biflorus, 



Akhreri, dher. 



KOSACE^. 



i^ B. I. ii. 338. 

 Himalaya, 

 7-9,000 ft. 

 Simla (Collett). 



large, stem stout, branches rambling, often purple 

 without bristles or gland-tipped hairs, young often quite 

 smooth or felted, prickles short, scattered, pale ; leaves 

 pinnately compound, leaflets 3, rarely 5, 1-5 in. long, 

 entire or lobulate, toothed, short- or long- pointed, smooth 

 above, whito-felted beneath, terminal leaflet sometimes 

 cordate, leaf stalk l-"2 in., slender with 1-2 prickles, stipules 

 thread-like; flowers \-l in. diam., pink, axillary or in few- 

 flowered clusters on a long stalk, nodding, bracts thread- 

 like, calyx 5-lobed, persistent, lobes \-\ in. long, ovate- 

 lanceolate, velvety, spreading or reflexed in fruit, petals 

 5, i-j in. diam., broad ovate, much smaller than the calyx, 

 lobes erect, concealing the stamens, stamens very many ; 

 fruit round, large or small, of few or many, dry or fleshy 

 drupes, acid, stones minute, pitted. 



see Prostrate Shrubs, Alternate, Stipulate, Com- 

 pound. 



see Prostrate Shrubs, Alternate, Stipulate, Com- 

 pound. 



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see Prostrate Shrubs, Alternate, Stipulate, Com- 

 pound. 



see Prostrate Herbs, Alternate, Stipulate, Compound. 



see Prostrate Shrubs, Alternate, Stipulate, Com- 

 pound. 



see Prostrate Shrubs, Alternate, Stipulate, Com- 

 pound. 



large, branches spreading, covered with white 

 powder-hke white-wash, prickles many, small, recurved ; 

 leaves odd pinnate, stalk 1-2 in., prickly, stipules \ in. 

 long, linear-lanceolatf^, leaflets 8 or 5, ovate-lanceolate, 

 1-1^ in. long, end one longer, doubly toothed, often lobu- 

 late, velvety above, white or felted beneath ; flowers |-| in. 

 diam., white, 1-8, together on slender drooping stalks, 

 calyx 'lobes 5, broad, long-pointed, petals 5, lobes rounded, 

 stamens many ; fruit round, |- in. diam., a column in the 

 centre covered with 20-30 very small drupes, succulent, 

 sweet, red, or orange, a minute stone in each drupe, pit- 

 ted. 



