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5—9 cm. long, 25--4 cm. wide, membranous, green and glabrous above, paler and uni- 
formly sparsely puberulous beneath, lateral nerves ascending, prominently looped within 
the margin, secondary reticulations indistinct; flowers in rather lax, narrow racemes 
at the ends and bases of new leafy shoots, 1--1:5 dm. long, with angular, densely grey- 
pubescent rachis; pedicels very slender, at length 1°5 cm. long, grey puberulous, with 
a caducous subulate bracteole about the middle; buds oblong, 4 mm. long; ca/yz-tube 
very short, lobes 4, imbricate, reflexed in flower, sparsely pubescent externally, 
glabrous within; petals 0; stamens 10, filaments glabrous, free, alternately long and 
short, anthers broadly oblong, versatile ; ovary stipitate, densely grey-downy, 1—2-ovuled 
stalk glabrous longer than the calyx-tube, style glabrous incurved; pod oblong, obliquely 
rounded at base, subequally rounded and apiculate at tip, rusty-puberulous, rather 
distinctly reticulate, 8 cm. long, 5 cm. wide, 1:25 cm. thick, valves very firmly coria- 
ceous; seed solitary, oblong, З cm. long, 2°75 cm. wide, “2 cm. thick. 
Maray PENINSULA: Penang; Curtis! Malacca; Derry! Perak; Kunstler! 
The Malay name in Malacca is given as Kumpas ruman. 
PLATE 47.— Crudia Curtisii Prain. 1, flowering branch; 2, twig with fruits—of natural size; 9 
bud; 4, opened flower; 5, ovary—all enlarged. 
D, P. 
PLATE 48. 
49, RUBUS rascicULATUS Duthie. 
Natural order Rosacez. 
An eglandular sarmentose shrub; stems angular, shaggy with long reddish-brown 
spreading weak bristles mixed with a shorter coating of white downy pubescence; prickles 
few, stout and somewhat compressed at the base, straight or slightly curved; leaves 
3-foliolate; petioles 2—3 cm. long, bristly; stipules 15 mm. long, subulate; leaflets 
thin, cartilaginous, dark-green above and slightly paler beneath, more or less abruptly 
acuminate, doubly serrate, smooth on both surfaces except on the midrib and veins 
beneath, the lower portion of the midrib bearing scattered curved prickles and bristles; 
veins 8—10 pairs, impressed above and prominent beneath; terminal leaflet usually much 
larger than the basal pair, 8—12 сш. long by 3:5—9 cm. in breadth, its stalk 
often as long as the common petiole, broadly ovate or obovute, more or less abruptly 
acuminate, rounded at the base; basal leaflets shortly stalked, suborbicular or oblong, 
rhomboid ; flowers in dense terminal or axillary clusters or solitary in the leaf-axils; 
bracts ovate-lanceolate, equalling the short bristly pedicels; calyz velvety pubescent 
on both sides, more or less bristly outside; lobes 7—8 mm. long, ovate, mucronate, 
brownish-green with pale margins; petals about 8 mm. long, spathulate, white, their 
claws clothed with long silky hairs on the outside; stamens in one series, shorter then 
the calyx-lobes; filaments dilated; anthers oval, attached to the summit of the fila- 
ment by а minute siender stalk ruit globose, succulent, golden-yellow; drupes on a 
clavate, hispid receptacle; styles longer than the carpels, bristly towards the base ; 
alone rugose, 
Western HiwaLAYA: in damp shady ravines leading into the Tons Valley, in 
l'ehri-Garhwál, at an elevaticn of about 6,000 feet; also at Chakrata and near Mussoorie, 
in similar situations. 
