Jtibet. ?ENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 613 



1. "R. glaciate, Wall 



.Erect, unarmed, with smooth shining branches. Leaves round* 

 cordate, five-lobed, with a few scattered hairs on b>»th side ; as h ng 

 as their gland-hat v petn>is ; lobes caudate-acuminate;, uuequaiiy 

 serrate. Raceme* solitary, erect, pubescent, g'audular. Biattes 

 equalling the flowers, abate, persistent. Style idrtg. 



A native of tlie frg:d regions of Htmalina, Gosaiu-Than, in 

 flower and fruit in August. C^p*. Webb and Dr. Go van found it 

 at Kedarnathy and on the aides of die Clioor river, at au elevation of 

 not less than ten thousand feet. 



An erect, branchy, unarmed shrub. Branches alternate, rigid, 

 round, covered with brown, sometimes silverv, shining, per'ect- 

 ly smooth, separating »p derm's. Tne new shu its a little hairy, 

 surrounded at theii b tie by la ige, ovate, membranous, three-ribbed, 

 cilia'e bud-scales.. leaves at first sub-fascicled, afterwaids alter- 

 nate, round cot date, five-lobed, varying much in size, fiom one to 

 three inches in breadth when full-grown; tbree-net ved, the axilis of 

 the i elves general)' furnished with a few as'n-colouied hairs ; nerves 

 and veins slightly hairy, at length nearly smooth ; lobes broad-lanceo- 

 late, very finely acuminate, sharply and unequally inciso-senate, the 

 exteiior two shorter than the rest, in the small leaved variety almost 

 obliterated, — Peliol slender, about as long as, the leaf, pubescent, 

 with some long glandular hairs towards the widening base. Ra- 

 cemes axillary, solitary, erect, when fruit-bearing somewhat nodding, 

 equa.ling the leaves in length, short-peduncled, cylindric, gland- 

 pubescent, many-flowered.— Flowers green, rather large, equalling 

 in length the lanceolate, gland-ciliate, persistent bmctes —Pedicels 

 two lines long, pubescent — Lacinice of the calyx lanceolate, obtuse, 

 striate, m inutely pubescent. — Petals very small, cuneate-ovate, ob- 

 tuse. — Stamina scarcely halt the length of the paly cine segments.— 

 Anthers round, two-celled. — Oiary a little pubescent. Stigma ob- 

 tuse; ilighlly two-lobed, — Berry round, smooth, ciowutd with the 



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