138 RosacecB. [Rubus^ 



Montane region ; common. Fl. all the year ; pure white, anthers 

 cream-colour. 



Also in Western Himalayas, Burma, &c. 



This may be the R. paniculatus of Moon Cat. 40, from Maturata. 



Though this species is very similar to the Blackberries of Europe, its- 

 deep yellow finely hairy fruit is scarcely edible. 



4. XI. lasiocarpus, Sm. hi Rees 3 Cyclop, xxx. (1815). 



R. parvifolius, Moon Cat. 40. Thw. Enum. 101. C. P. 1533. 



Fl. B. Ind. ii. 339. Wight, Ic. t. 232. 



Stems erect, glabrous but covered with a fine white pinkish, 

 or blueish " bloom " easily rubbed off, armed with large nearly- 

 straight compressed prickles ; 1. imparipinnate, rachis 3 \— 5 in., 

 stout, horizontal, flexuose, with numerous hooked prickles,, 

 furrowed above, stip. rather small, linear, silky, lfits. 5-9 

 (2-4 pair and end one), shortly stalked, lanceolate-oval or 

 ovate, acute or rounded or cordate at base, acute at apex, 

 coarsely and irregularly serrate, glabrous above, very white 

 with fine cottony tomentum beneath ; fl. in long pubescent 

 ped. in small short axillary and terminal corymbs, bracts, 

 filiform ; cal.-segm. very acute, aristate, woolly on both 

 sides ; pet. rounded ; fruit rather large, \ in. or more, carp, 

 numerous, fleshy, pink, densely covered with fine white 

 pubescence. 



Var. (5, subglaber, Thw. 1. c. R. leucocarpus, Am. Pug. 16. 



C. P. 1534. 



Lfits. smaller, broadly ovate, not white beneath but 

 glabrous save for scanty hair on the veins. 



Montane region, 3000-6000 ft. or more ; common. Var. (3, Nuvvara 

 Eliya. Fl. throughout the year, pink. 



Also throughout India and in Java. 



There are two forms, large and small-flowered, the former being met 

 with at the higher elevations only. 



This is known as the ' Wild Raspberry,' which it much resembles ; 

 the fruit, however, has no flavour, and is besides covered with a woolly 

 coat, which renders it inedible. 



Fragaria vesca, L. Walker-Arnott, in Pug. 16, say she has seen, 

 badly dried specimens from Ceylon gathered at 6000 ft. And about 

 Nuwara Eliya patches of so-called ' wild ' strawberries are to be found 

 occasionally, but only, 1 think, as escapes from cultivation.* About 

 Ootacamund in the Nilgiris, however, a wild strawberry, F. nilgerrensiSy 

 Schldl, is said to be very common, and is figured (as F. elatzor) in Wight,. 

 Ic. t. 988 ; but our plant does not agree with this, but with the common 

 wild strawberry of England. 



* I am informed that the first wild strawberries noticed at N. Eliya 

 came up in a Cinchona clearing made in 1864, but Arnott's must have 

 been collected at a much earlier date. 



