142 



KEY TO BRITISH RUBI. 



Var. fuxva K. Schum. I. c. p. 285. 8. Mva 



Merid. p. 139. 

 Hab. Brazil ! 



Folia linearia. 



33. S. anomala St. Hil. Fl. Bras. Merid. p. 140, t. 33 ; K. Schum. 

 I. c, p. 286, t. lv. S. fasciculata Torr. & Gray, Fl. p. 231. S. in- 

 volucrata A Rich. Fl. Cubeus. p. 162. S. anomala var. mexicana 



Monc. PI. N. Am. t. 24. 



Hab. Texas! Mexico! Cuba. Brazil. Uruguay. Bolivia. 

 Argentine Republic. 



(To be continued.) 



AN ESSAY AT A KEY TO BRITISH RUBI. 



By the Rev. W. Moyle Rogers, F.L.S. 



(Continued from p. 114.) 



16. R. ? montanus Wirtg. R. tfrafoicsHi Bab.prius(nonWeihe). 

 St. arching, angular or sulcate towards the end, subglabrous and 

 coloured like R. rhamnifolius. Prickles crowded, declining, deflexed 

 and falcate, much dilated and compressed below, with rather Ion* 

 yellowish points. L. 5-nate-pedate or digitate, broad. Lts. all 

 stalked (bas. briefly) and unusually broad, imbricate, plicate, opaque 

 and glabrous above, ashy-felted beneath, ivith slightly irregular crowded 

 acute teeth, and many hooked prickles on petiole and midrib; term, 

 broadly subrotund, cordate, cuspidate. Panicle narrow, cylindrical 

 above, leafy below, its branches ascending racemose-corymbose, 

 its prickles many, straight, declining and deflexed. Bracts gland- 

 ciliate. Cal. ashy-felted and hairy. <• Stam. white, scarcely ex- 



ImSf? p *%* StyleS '" " Fr ' s P arin gly produced." Apparently 

 allied to R. Dunmoniensis and R. rhamnifolius, and also (in Mr. 

 Bagnall s opinion) to R. Colemanni. 



^ a T n ia A t esc riP tio ?> drawn partly from Mr. Bloxam's specimen of 

 Prof P W 1 °' ] Pknt iu Mn Ba S nall ' s h erb. and partly from 



agree 



ably m most of the characters with Dr. Focke's description of 

 R. rnontanus m Syn R. G. pp. 127, 128 ; but the Professor's latest 

 published opinion known to me (Jo„rn. Bot. 1886, p. 236) is not 

 favourable to the suggestion of their identity. 



i,. n. carpinifolius W. & N. — St. er,r t . a rcuate, angular, more 



or less hairy. Prickles many, strong, declining, yellow. L. 5-nate, 



or rarely 7-nate. 



with the teeth remarkably directed f 



fi 



and softly hairy or felted beneath ; term, variable, but usually 

 elliptic or broadly ovate, acuminate or acute and cordate. Pan. 

 usually with many falcate yellow prickles) narrow, cylindrical or 

 (when luxuriant) pyramidal, with many short erect-patent branches ; 

 open simply racemose above. Sep. loosely reflcved in fi., becoming 



