Spircea] XLYI. ROSACEA 283 



as well as petals 4r-o. Stameris 20-60, on a fleshy often hairy disk, which is 

 generally adnate to calyx-tube. Carpels usually 5, free or connate below, 

 ovules "2 or more. Seeds thin, minute. Species 40, in the northern temperate 

 zone. Of the Indian shrubs the following may be mentioned : 



A. Leaves simple, toothed. 



1. S. canescens, Don : Collett Simla Flora, fig. 44. North West Himalaya 6-9,000 ft. 

 (Chalets, N. "West Hinial.i Sikkim. 10-12,000 ft. Softly tomentose, stem attains 2 in. 

 diam. and more, 1. nearly sessile, J- J. in., entire or 3-5-toothed at the tip. PI. white, 

 bisexual. Ripe carpels villous, half immersed in calyx-tube. 2. S. bella, Sims, Hima- 

 laya, from Hazara eastwards, 7-12.000 ft. Ksrlcan, Haz. Nearly glabrous, L $-2 in. 

 long serrate, fl. pink, unisexual. Ripe carpels glabrous. 3. S. vaccinifolia, lion. X. "W. 

 Himalaya 5-7,000 ft., near Simla on limestone (Naldera, Shali.) A small gregarious 

 shrub, 1. glabrous, glaucous beneath, blade J-1J, petiole J- J in. Fl. white, bisexual. 



B. Leaves pinnate. 



1. s. sorbifolia, Linn. N. W. Himalaya 5-10,000 ft. (Kttrkan, Haz.; Kiikis, Kunawar.) 

 deaflets 6-10 pair, narrowly lanceolate, sharply toothed, 2—1 in. long. fl. white in large 

 terminal panicles. Small boxes made of the -u I. 



Neillia thyrsiflora, Don, and N. rubiflora, Don, are common shrubs in Sikkim and 

 the Khasi hills. 1. more or less lobed, fl. white in panicled racemes, calyx campanulate 

 hairy persistent, ripe carpels solitary, oblique, dehiscent, half enclosed in the hairy 

 calyx-tube, s Is I 6, globose. 



G. RUBUS, Linn. : Fl. Brit. Ind. ii. 326. 



Trailing shrubs, a few low undeishrubs, as a rule prickly. Leaves alter- 

 nate, simple i.i- ci,iiip,,und. sti|>ules more or less adnate to petiole. Fl. white 

 or red, in terminal or axillary corymbose panicles. Calyx free, broadly cup- 

 shaped, deeply cleft into 5 lobes, persistent in fin i r. petals 5, stamens oc . 

 Rips carpels numerous, usually lli'shy. one-seeded, on a conical dry or spongy 

 receptacle. Species 180-200, cosmopolitan. 



A. Leaves entire, not deeply lobed, usually longer than broad. 



I. R. acuminatus, Sm. : Gamble Lis! 35. 



Branches long arching cylindric, glabrous, prickles very few. leaves glabrous, 

 green on both sides, ovate caudate-acuminate, petiole .'.I in., stipules slender. 

 setaceous. Petals white, carpels 8. Drupes large, globose, scarlet, enclosed 

 l>\ the calyx. 



Himalaya from Kumaon to sikkim | 7,000 ft. Khasi hills. PL July. 2. R. hexagy- 

 nus, Etoxb. (R. pyrifolius, Kurz F. Fl. ii. 136 \--am. Khasi hills, Silhet. Kakhyen 

 hills, Upper Burma. Yunnan. A large, scrambling or climbing shrub, prickles short 

 recurved, leaves ovate-oblong, petiole 1 in., carpels 6. 8. R. assamensis, Focke, Uishmi 

 and Khasi bills. Mauipur. Erect, branchiate, underside of 1. and inflorescence whitish- 

 villous with soft spreading ha irs, prickles very few, short, 1. ovate-oblong stipules and 

 bra< pectit Panicles terminal and in the axils of the upj s, petals white, 



I els |o 12, glabi ou -. 



I. R paniculatus, Smith: Brandis P. Fl. 196. Vern. Kala Anchu, Jauns. 



A straggling shrub, branches, petioles, underside of leaves and inflorescence 

 densely clothed with white or grey cottony tomentum, prickles few, minute, 



l ked. heaves from a cordate base broad-ovate, serrate and sinuate, basal 



nerves 3 5, pr inent, stipules and bracts cleft into linear segments. Fl. in 



lax spreading terminal panicles. Petals white, shorter than the long acumi- 

 nate calyx-segments. Pr. black. 



Himalaya, outer ranges 8 B ft., fr Hazara to Sikkim, Khasi bills. PI. April 



July. Yunnan. 5. R. insignia. Hook. f.. Bhutan, Khasi hills. All parte except upper 

 side of leaves densely clothed with buff tomentum, numerous prickles on petiole and 

 midrib, leaves hastate, petals white, almost orbicular, equalling the silkj calyx-lobes, 



