Hubus.] Rosacea. 137 



i|-2| in., very hairy, with prickles beneath, stip. large, ovate, 

 deeply pectinate, very silky, enclosing the buds, caducous ; 

 fl. in elongated terminal panicles, on long stout ped., bracts 

 oval, toothed or pectinate at end only; cal. densely silky- 

 hairy, segm. entire or pectinately toothed at end ; pet. fully half 

 as long as cal.-segm. ; fruit bright red or dull purplish-red. 



Var. /3, Fairholmianus,* Gardn. 1. c. 7 (sp.). R. rugosus, var. 7. 

 Thw. 1. c. C. P. 135. 



Stems with few nearly straight prickles, tomentum nearly 

 white ; 1. very rugose above ; fruit of very numerous carp., 

 dark purple. 



Var. 7, macrocarpus, Gardn. 1. c. 7 (sp.). R. m&osiis, var. 6. Thw. 

 1. c. C. P. 1535. 



Prickles nearly straight, tomentum cottony, cinnamo- 

 meous; 1. very rugose above; fruit of numerous very large 

 juicy carp., black. 



Moist country at all elevations above 1000 ft.; very common ; vars. /3 

 and 7 only in upper montane zone. Fl. all the year ; white ; vars. /3 and 

 7, bright pink. 



Common throughout India and Malaya. 



This is a very variable species in the hill districts ; and the two 

 varieties given were considered separate species by Gardner. The fruit 

 of var. 7 is the only real " Blackberry " in Ceylon, it is large and juicy, 

 and when quite ripe has a good flavour. 



3. R. ellipticus, Sm. in Rees' Cyclop, xxx. (181 5?). 

 R. Jlavus, Ham., Thw. Enum. 101. R. Goivreephul, Roxb., W. and 

 A. Prod. 298. C. P. 2596. 



Fl. B. Ind. ii. 336. Wight, Ic. t. 230 (R. Gowreephid). 



Stems flexuose, finely pubescent and also clothed with 

 numerous long red horizontal hairs and scattered stout hooked 

 prickles ; 1. pinnately 3-foliolate, rachis 2-2^ in., cylindrical, 

 armed as the stem, stip. obviously petiolar,|- in., linear-filiform, 

 erect, Iflts. very shortly stalked, 2-3 in., broadly oblong-oval or 

 rotundatc, obtuse or abruptly acute, sharply serrate, glabrous 

 above, densely and finely white-pubescent beneath with the 

 lat. veins prominent ; fl. rather small, on long ped., in copious, 

 dense, pubescent, axillary and terminal panicles, bracts linear; 

 cal.-segm. acute, mucronate, densely pubescent ; pet. a little 

 longer than cal.-segm., obovate ; fruit globular, of very 

 numerous carp, which arc covered with a few long hairs, deep 

 yellow, slightly juicy, stone rugose. 



Dedicated to W. Fairholme, Esq., who accompanied Mr. Gardner 

 on a journey to Adam's Peak in 1846, when they were lost for five days in 

 ■the fo 



