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branches many corymbose patent, its lower branches racemose, 
falling short of the leaves, its prickles long, slender, declining ; 
sepals ovate-attenuate, aciculate, setose, loosely reflexed ; petals pale 
pink; stamens greenish white, exceeding the (pink ?) styles. 
R. Newbouldit Bab. Journ. Bot. 1886, 230 
R. Radula y. denticulatus Bab. Man. ed. 5,105; Brit. Rubi, 195. 
Stem arcuate-prostrate, angular. Prickles unequal, long, slender, 
conical, patent, from a long compressed i 
Many sete and strong aciculi, much shorter than the prickles, an 
unequal. Leaves 5-nate or 8-nate. Petioles slightly channelled, 
but with hairs on the veins beneath ; terminal leaflet roundly and 
bould at Loxley, near Sheffield, until the Rey. Dr. Hind (who is 
occupied with the Flora of Suffolk) allowed me to see a specimen 
gathered by him at Mellis, in Suffolk, on Aug. 18th, 1880, where it 
is abundant. Dr. Hind’s plant is much finer than that from 
Loxley, but seems clearly to be the same growing’ in a more 
favourable situation. I think that they differ sufficiently from R. 
Radula to claim a distinct name. The very finely denticulate and 
nearly naked leaves, and the ovate-attenuate sepals will distinguish 
R. Newbouldii from its allies. It seems to show a strong tendency 
towards the Kehleriani by the armature of its stem. It gives me 
much pleasure to name it in commemoration of my lamented 
friend, its original discoverer in 1846. 
. MELANOxYLON Mill. & W 
HO, hairy ; 
terminal leaflet broadly obovate, slightly cordate below, (‘acumi- 
nate”) cuspidate ; basal leaflets not imbricate, stalked ; panicle 
short, rounded at the end, hairy, with few or no rather distant 
‘xillary rac 
prickles many, long, slender, declining, its aci 
sepals ovate-attenuate, i, — and setose ; 
inkish ; stam ding the styles. 
z faeisa Miller & Wirtgen in Herb. Rub. rhen. 
R. melanox Po dk ng 
ed. 1, No, 181 (1861); Genev. Monog. ed. 1, 188; od. 2, 147; 
