Plants of the Punjab, 



519 



Prostrate Shrubs with Alternate Stipulate Compound Lbavbs. 



Petals ununited. 



ciroiilar-ovate -with broad tip, stalked, longer than the sepals, 

 st; mens many; fruit romid, yellow or orange, enclosed 

 in the calyx, drupes 20-30, smooth, on a columnar velvety 

 receptacle, seed rugged. The fruit is eaten. 



Rubus elllptisus, 



Lai Anchhu, akhi, 



EOSACEJE. 



P. B. I. ii. 386. 

 Himalaya, 

 2-7,000 ft. 

 Simla, Mashobra 

 (Collett). 



like the last species, but larger, shaggy, with long, 

 tawny bristles, upper surface of leaflets green, velvety, 

 lower grey-felted, carpels silky. The fruit which is golden 

 yellow has a pleasant flavour like a raspberry, 



Rubus fruticosus, like the last species, but branches and under-surface 



var. discolor, of leaves white, felted with star-shaped hairs, flowers pink- 



Bramble, Blackberry, in large ovate dense branching racemes, cab.'x lobes short, 

 Alish, kanachi. reflexed in fruit, carpels quite smooth, fruit black, seed 



EosACE^. pitted. The fruit is eaten. 



F. B. I. ii. 337. 

 Himalaya, 

 west of the Cheuab, 

 Jammu, Murree. 



Rubus antenniier, 



see Prostrate, Herbs, Alternate, Stipulate, Compound. 



Rubus purpureus, 

 var. subinermis, 



EOSACE^. 



F. B. I. ii. 337, 

 Kashmir, 

 8-10,000 ft. 



common in water channels, straggling over the banks, 

 branches stout, shining, pale or dark yellowish, purple, 

 glandular hairs few, scattered, prickles replaced by strong 

 bristles, leaflets 3-5, 2-4 in. long, smooth above, white 

 beneath, broad ovate or circular heart-shaped, coarsely 

 sharply doubly round-toothed, lateral leaflets sessile, 

 smaller, leaf stalk 1-3 in., stout, pale coloured like the 

 branches, stipules bristly, glandular, flowers | in. diam., 

 drooping, sohtary in the lower axils, 2-4 in., clusters on 

 one stalk ui the upper, calyx velvety, bristly, lobes ovate- 

 lanceolate, finely long-pointed, erect in fruit, petals smaller 

 than the calyx, circular-oblong, fruit red, round, enclosed 

 in the calyx, of many felted drupes on a columnar velvety 

 receptacle ; for other characters see the last described 

 species. 



