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slightly wavy or very nearly straight, red, glabrous below, pubescent 

 and tomentose at the top. Prickles few, slender. Petals obovate, 

 with cuneate base, not contiguous, light pink. Stamens pink, 

 longer than and arching over the green styles. Sepals broad-ovate, 

 with a linear point, greenish white-felted, whiter within, loosely 

 reflexed after flowering. Carpels many, small, crowded, glabrous. 

 Flowers in August. 



It forms a bush two to four feet high. It is in some respects 

 near to R. calvatus Blox., but differs in the character of the foliage, 

 and still more in the panicle. It occurs in plenty over an area of 

 some five miles by four to the north and east of Shirley, which is 

 as far as I have traced it. I have seen a form of it near Mansell 

 Park Farm, near Hulland, which has a narrower panicle, leafy to the 

 top. My brother (in B. E. C. Report, 1890, p. 285) suggested that 

 the Bradley Wood plant, which at one time was thought by Dr. 

 W. 0. Focke to be R. septorum F. J. Mull., and which Professor 

 Babington put to R. obscwifrons M. & W., is a form of this; and I 

 consider it to be so, as it is very close to it in every point. I have 

 had this bramble under observation for three seasons, and also have 

 young plants of it in cultivation which have grown from seed, and 

 the definite and permanent character which it is found to possess 

 appears to justify its publication as a species, I should also add 

 that it has been submitted to Dr. W. 0. Focke, who suggested the 

 possibility of its being a form of R. umbrosus Auct. Brit., and, later 

 on, of R. incurvatus Bab., but was unable to match it with any of 

 the species known to him. Other suggested affinities are R. nitidiis 

 "W. & N., by my brother and Rev. W. M. Bogers ; and R. hamulosas 

 P. J. Miill., by Prof. Babington, in B. E. G. Report for 1890, p. 285. 



SYNOPSIS OF GENERA AND SPECIES OF MALVEM. 



By Edmund G. Baker, F.L.S. 



(Continued from Journ. Bot., 1891, p. 366.) 



Subtribus 3. Sidej:. Carpella simplici serie verticillata. Ovula 

 solitaria pendula. 



XI. PLAGIANTHUS Forst. Char. Gen. p. 85, t. 43.— 

 Bracteohe v. a calyce distantes. Styli rami Lotus longitudinaliter 



stigmatosi. 



Sect. I. Plagianthtjs Benth. Fl. Austral, i. p. 188. — Calyx 

 campanulatus non angulatus. Arbores vel fruticosae. Folia herbacea. 



* Australienses. 



1. P. sidoides Hook. Bot. Mag. t. 3396; Benth. Fl. Austral, i. 

 p. 188, cum syn. P. discolor Asch. in Append. Ind. Sem. Hort. 



Berol. 1861, p. 10. 



Hab. Australia. Tasmania! 



