KOSACE^. 185 



Tlio vostiturc of the stem :ind panicle is so difTerent from tliat of 

 ordinary 11. Radula, that it cannot well he retained in its present 

 ])Osition, irrespective of the peculiar shape of the leaflets, whieli 

 have also shorter felt beneath intermixed with scarcely any longc^r 

 hairs. Professor Babini^ton, who has seen only an imperfect spe- 

 cimen, thinks that it seems to belong: to the Kolileriana; close to 

 R. diversifolius ; adding that 11. lladula approaches the Kohlerianye, 

 and that probably this form is the connecting link. 



File-stemmed Bramble. 



Group IV.— GLAND ULOSI. Bab. 



Barren stem arching-prostrate or prostrate, rooting at the end, 

 hairy ; prickles numerous, usually not confined to the angles of the 

 stem, very unequal, passing gradually into aciculi and gland-tipped 

 setae, which are very numerous. 



Sub-Group I.— KCEHLERIANI. Bab. 

 Leaves mostly quinate ; prickles very numerous, scattered. 



Sub Species XXVIII.— Rubus KoUeri. Weihe. 

 Plate CCCCLIII. 

 Bab. Man. Brit. Bot. ed. v. p. 105. 



Barren stem arching-prostrate, roundish or bluntly angular, 

 pilose ; prickles very unequal, strong, spreading or slightly deflexed, 

 from an elongate compressed base ; aciculi and gland-tipped setse 

 numerous and very unequal. Leaves of the barren stem quinatc „ 

 leaflets rather thin, smooth above, paler and hairy only on the veins 

 or more rarely felted beneath, finely acutely and irregularly dentate- 

 serrate ; terminal leaflet oval, sub-cordate or rounded at the base, 

 acuminate ; basal leaflets stalked, not imbricated. Flowers in a 

 long narrow leafy often interrupted panicle with very short ascend- 

 ing-spreading corymbose branches ; rachis and pedicels sparingly 

 stifiiy-hairy with numerous gland-tipped setse, aciculi, and very un- 

 equal subulate slightly deflexed prickles. Sepals ovate-acuminate, 

 reflexed in fruit. 



a, B. Kohleri. Weihe. 



Barren stem with very numerous prickles, aciculi, and gland- 

 tipped setae. Leaflets rough, hairy only on the veins beneath ; 

 panicle lax, truncate, with the terminal peduncles shorter than the 

 lateral ones. 



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