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RASPBERRY. Vide Rubus. 



REIDLEIA TILI^FOLIA. fiyttneriacece. NAT. MATHOOREE. A 

 small tree ; the young leaves very soft and velvety ; flowers 

 small rose-coloured, in axillary and terminal corymbiform pani- 

 cles, appear in November. 



Rnus LUCIDA. Terebinthacece. Shining leaved Sumach, intro- 

 duced from the Cape. 



RICINUS VULGARIS. Euphorbidcece. NAT. ERUNDI, This tree 

 is so common all over the country, that any description of its 

 culture is unnecessary, except that if any person wishes to grow 

 it for use, I would recommend a good soil, and sufficient space 

 between the plants to enable them to benefit both by the sun 

 and air. 



ROSE APPLE. Vide Eugenia Jambosa. 



ROTTLERA TINCTORIA. Eupkorbiacece. NAT. SHENDREE OB 

 TOONG. Monkey faced tree, from these animals rubbing their 

 faces, with the fruit. A large tree with alternate, ovate oblong 

 leaves, of a ferruginous colour beneath ; flowers in the cold 

 weather. Fruit size of a pea, covered with a red mealy pow- 

 der, used as a dye. 



RUBUS LASIOCARPUS. Eosacece. BLACKBERRY. NAT. GOWREE- 

 PHUL. Now cultivated generally in the Deccan, and believed to 

 have been first brought from the Mysore Hills. It grows easily 

 from seed ; a few of the ripe fruit rubbed on a sheet of paper, 

 and dried in the sun, will enable you to forward the seed to 

 friends at any distance. (The same with the strawberry.) The 

 plants should never be nearer than four or five feet, and may be 

 cut down at the commencement of the rains, when they will 

 throw out fresh shoots, and bear fruit in abundance. As it 

 requires little care, and only an occasional supply of water, 

 this bramble forms a very perfect and secure hedge to a kitchen 

 garden. The finest fruit is very inferior to a common raspberry. 



RUBUS RUGOSUS. The Raspberry. This plant never grows 

 in the Deccan : a wild species is described by Graham as found 

 in Mahableshwar. 



RUTA GRAVEOLENS. Rutacece, NAT SATOORI, Common Rue. 



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