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XLVI. ROSACE.E 



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12. R. lineatus, Reinw. : Vern. Gemp6 Aselu, Nep. 



A large nearly unarmed shrub, bark peeling off in flakes, leaflets 3 or 5, 

 elliptic-lanceolate, usually clothed beneath with dense silky silvery tomentum, 

 sec. n. numerous, straight, parallel, terminating in sharp serratures. Stipules 

 ovate or lanceolate, entire, semipersisteut. Fl. white, in short axillary clusters. 

 Drupes red, edible. 



Sikkim i;-s.iiOO ft., coming up gregariously in clearances. Fl. Aug.-Sept. 13. R. 

 Andersoni, Hook. f.. Sikkim. 7-10,000 ft., similar, bul leaflets broader. Numerous 

 spreading gland-tipped hairs on branchlets, petioles and underside of leaflets. Fl. in 

 axillary short spreading panicles. 11. R. alpestris, Blume. Himalaya. Garlnval to 

 Sikkim 7-lo.ono ft. Prickles straight, scattered, leaflets 3-5, deeply serrate, slightly 

 pubescent while young, sec. n. 7-10 pair, stipules linear. Fl. terminal. 1-3 together, 

 on slender pedicels. 



I'm. 128. — Kiilnis lineatus, lieinw-. .'.. 



D. Loaves impari-pinnate, leaflets usually one pair only, 



1."). R. niveus, Wall.; Brandis F. Fl. L99. (R. gracilis, Roxb. is the 

 older name, but Booker, in PI. Brit. End. ii. 336, has .justly retained the well 

 understood and more expressive Dame of /.'. niveus. Vern. Bhera, Jauns. 



A large straggling exceedingly variable, of ten gregarious shrub, branches 

 dull brown or greyish-brown, often trailing over rocks; silky mostly grey 

 pubescence on branchlets, leaves and inflorescence, numerous small conical 

 prickles on liranchos and petioles, no bristles or gland-tipped hairs. Leaflets, 

 one or two pair, membranous, deeply ineised-serrate, often slightly lobed, vari- 

 able in size ami shape, bul generally ovate, acuminate, silky p a or white 

 beneath, stipules linear-subulate, often I in, long. Corymbs lax, few-flowered, 

 petals pink, shorter than calyx-lobes, connivent over ovaries, 



Kur valley, trac Indus. Outer Himalaya, from Kashmir to B ft. 



in the west, ascending to 12,000 ft. in tl Bt. Manipur. Fl. Maj July in the \. \\'.. 



Oot. in Sikkim Qai L6. R. purpureas, Bunge, Curam valley 



mil. I.aliaul. Kunauar. West Tibet, branches yellowish-red, pglnudular bi 

 numerous on branchlets and calyx, fl. few on long slender pedicels, in !.i\ axillary 

 oymes. 17. R. Hookeri, Focke, Sikkim 7 10,000 ft., softlj | few, 



straight, glandular bristles Qumerous, leaflets 8, rhomboid-ovate, stipules broad pecti- 



