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XLVI. ROSACEA 



[Rubits 



stamens purple. 6. R. ferox, Wall. Nepal, Khasi hills. Upper Burma. Roughly 

 tomentose, not white or buff coloured, prickles stout, numerous on branchlets, petioles 

 and nerves, ]. more or less lobed. Panicles lax, ramifications slender, calyx-lobes pec- 

 tinately toothed, teeth linear. 



B. Leaves deeply lobed, as broad as long, or broader than long. 



7. R. moluccanus, Linn. ; Knrz F. Fl. i. 437. — Syn. J?, rugosus, Smith; 

 Wight Ic. t. 225. B. Hamiltonianus, Wall. PI. As. Ear. t. 234. (R. 

 rugosus in text.) 



A large straggling shrnb, branches, petioles and underside of leaves densely 

 clothed with soft woolly rust-coloured tomentum, branches and petioles armed 

 with numerous small prickles, leaves deepty cordate. 3-5-lobed, upperside more 

 or less wrinkled, stipules laciniate or pinnatifid. Fl. white, in dense axillary 



Fig. 122. — Bubus moluccanus, Linn. i. 



racemes or clusters, the upper ones usually forming a terminal silky-tomentose 

 panicle, calyx entire or pectinate-dentate. Fr. bright red, glabrous, slightly 

 acid. 



Himalaya from Nepal eastwards, ascending to 7,000 ft., Khasi hills. Hills of Burma 

 above 3,000 ft. Western Ghats from Mahableshwar southwards. Fl. Feb.-Aug. — 

 Ceylon, moist country, above 1,000 ft. Malay Peninsula and Archipelago. 8. R. 

 reticulatus, Wall., Himalaya, Kumaon to Sikkim, 7-10,000 ft., closely allied to 7 and 

 perhaps not specifically distinct, branchlets and 1. grey tomentose beneath, fr. very 

 large. 9. R. lanatus, Wall. Kumaon, Nepal, 5-8,000 ft., inflorescence with glandular 

 hairs, branches and underside of leaves white-cottony. 10. R. birmanicus, Hook, f., 

 Patkai range. Manipur. Branchlets, petioles and uuderside of 1. densely clothed with 

 long soft hairs and numerous stout recurved prickles, 1. greyish-brown beneath, stipules 

 and bracts i-J in. long, deeply pinnatifid, segments long, filiform. 11. R. Treutleri, 

 Hook. 1'., Sikkim 7-10,000 ft., branchlets, petioles and 1. on both sides densely clothed 

 with long soft hairs, mixed here and there with glandular bristles, prickles slender, 

 passing into bristles, fl. f— 1 in. across, calyx-lobes large, laciniate or pinnatifid. Carpels 

 numerous, dry. 



C. Leaves digitately 3-5-foliolate. 



