40 
. Amongst Indian brambles this plant most resembles R, ellipticus Smith; but 
it may at once be distinguished by the colour and texture of its foliage, the abruptly 
acuminate leaflets, and the very different inflorescence. The drawing was made 
from a specimen collected in the Bamsu Valley in Tehri-Garhwál, where I have never 
observed the fruit becoming succulent, the carpels always remaining dry like achenes, 
and the styles persistent. 
Pirate 48.—Rubus fasciculatus Duthie. Portions of plant, of natural size. Fig. 1, flower seen 
from above; 2, side-view of a flower at a later stage; 3, vertical section of a flower; 4, calyx laid 
open to show the stamens and receptacle; 5, petal; 6, stamen; 7, ripe fruit (from a Mussoorie speci- 
men); 8, ripe achene-like carpel (from a Bámsu Valley specimen); 9, stone of succulent carpel; 10, seed— 
all enlarged, 
Ji Fe D, 
PLATE 49. 
50. PorriNGERIA ACUMINATA Prain in Journ, Аз. Soc. Beng. lxvii. 2. 291 (1898). 
Natural order Saxifragaces. 
A shrub, with round glabrous slender branches; laves alternate, ovate-acuminate, 
rigidly coriaceous, glabrous on both sides and punctate beneath, entire, 5—9 cm. long, 
2—4 cm. wide, 5-пегуей from the base, the marginal pair very slender the others 
almost as strong as the central, petioles about 5 mm. long; flowers in many- 
flowered, axillary cymes 4—5 cm, long, 2:5 cm. wide, pedicellate, the pedicels 4 mm. 
long, jointed above the middle and with ovate-acute bracteoles 2 mm. long at the 
base ; calyz-tube short, wide-campanulate, adnate to the base of the ovary, 1:5 mm. 
long, teeth 5, ovate-acute, almost as long as tube, the sinuses wide, rounded ; petals 5; 
stamens 5, erect, attachel to the edge of the perigynous disk, filaments subulate upwards 
somewhat explanate at the base where each has a median gland on its outer aspect; 
ovary half-superior ; capsule 5 mm, long, 3°5 mm. wide, superior, oblong, longitudinally 
slightly 3-grooved, septicidally 3-valved, the style and central axis partible from the 
base almost to the coherent stigma; placentas fertile only for about one-third, from 
the middle mnpwards, and only there contiguous; seeds narrowly fusiform, testa 
erustaceous, slightly reticulated, somewhat prolonged at both ends; embryo cylindric, 
rather large, in the centre of the fleshy albumen. Sc. Mem. Med, Off, India xi, 43 ( 1898). | 
Клснік Нплв: Chesyan, 3700 ft.; Pottinger! 
This species has been made the type of a new genus of Saxifragaceae, in the 
tribe £scallonieae near еа, which it resembles in having a similarly partible style with 
a similarly half-superior ovary. It differs markedly, however, from Itea in having 3 
earpels in place of 2 and іп the capsule when dehiscing leaving the three filiform 
placentas persistent. The leaves too, which are like those of a Cinnamon, or of a 
Melastomaceous plant, give the plant a facies of its own. 
Unfortunately the only specimen brought by Capt. Pottinger has been collected just 
as the plant was passing out of flower; the petals and anthers have all dropped and 
though the scars left show that there are 5 petals it is at present impossible’ to say 
whether they are imbricate or valvate, : d: 
Prate 49.—Pottingeria acuminata Prain. 1, branch;—of natural size; 2, capsule, with valves 
commencing to dehisce, showing persisting placentas, persisting filaments, jointed pedicel and 
