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Sob-Species XVIII.— Rubus macrophyllus. Wei/io. 

 Plate CCCCL. 

 Bab. Man. Brit. Bot. ed. v. p. 102. 



Barren stem arching-prostrate, angular, sparingly pilose with 

 spreading hairs, prickles numerous, slender, short, dcflexed, from a 

 dilated slightly compressed base. Leaves of the barren stem qui- 

 nate or ternate ; leaflets thin, sub-glabrous or pilose above, green, 

 felted beneath or densely hairy only on the veins ; terminal leaflet 

 oval, obovate, sub-rhomboidal or roundish, rounded, sub-cordate or 

 narrowed at the base, shortly acuminate or cuspidate at the apex, 

 doubly or irregularly and often bluntly serrate. Flowers in a 

 slender panicle, with the upper branches short, spreading or corym- 

 bose, the lower ones sometimes longer and sub-racemose ; rachis 

 and peduncles more or less densely pilose, with a few gland- 

 tipped setae and numerous slender, straight, declining prickles. 

 Sepals felted, stiifly-hairy, loosely reflexed. 



"a, B. umhrosiis. Arrhenius. 



" Prickles slender from a large base. Leaves quinate ; leaflets 

 doubly and patently dentate, velvety or slightly felted beneath ; 

 terminal leaflet broadly obovate cuspidate ; panicle with slender 

 prickles. Tip of sepals linear. Corolla rose-coloured. R. car- 

 pinifolius (Blox.). Terminal leaflet sometimes divided into three. 



" i3, B. macrophyllus. Weihe & Nees. 



" Prickles small, short, from a very large base. Leaves quinate 

 or ternate ; leaflets irregularly dentate-serrate, hairy only on the 

 veins, and rarely felted beneath ; terminal leaflet elliptical or 

 broadly obovate ; panicle with slender prickles. Sepals leaf-pointed. 

 Corolla white. (R. G. 12.) Leaflets often very large. Stem often 

 with a few aciculi and setae. A very variable plant. 



" 7, B. Schlechtendalii. Weihe & Nees. 



" Prickles short, small, from a very large base. Leaves usually 

 quinate ; leaflets doubly and patently dentate, usually hairy only 

 on the veins, not felted beneath ; terminal leaflet long, obovate, 

 acuminate, wedge-shaped or sub-cordate at the base ; panicle with 

 strong prickles. Sepals with a linear point. Corolla white. 

 (R. G. 11.) Hardly distinguishable from var. 0. 



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