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trict which it inhabits, has made it increasingly evident that, not- 

 withstanding its considerable resemblance to some of the Hystriees, 

 its strongest affinities are with tbe Caesian group of brambles. 

 Accordingly the Rev. W. Moyle Rogers, who last year saw it growing 

 at Shirley and other places in the Ashbourne district, considers that 

 it should be placed under R. dutnetorum as a named variety. I have 

 to thank the Rev. W. R. Linton for valuable help in drawing up 

 the following description of it : — 



Rubus rubicundus, n. sp. Stem weak and straggling, bluntly 

 5-angled, commonly with glaucous bloom ; prickles scattered, un- 

 equal, slender, decurved or declining from short strongly compressed 

 bases : the larger ones mostly on the angles ; acicles and smaller 

 prickles few, irregularly stalked glands very numerous ; leaves 

 quinate ; leaflets thin, convex, roundish-ovate-acuminate or roundish- 

 obovate-acuminate, irregularly and often doubly crenate-dentate or 

 cuspidate-dentate, yellowish green and glabrous above, beneath 

 paler and clothed with shining silky hairs. Flowering branches 

 long, their lower leaves quinate, upper ones ternate, the uppermost 

 often having the central leaflet lanceolate -obovate. Panicle leafy 

 nearly to the top, its branches long and, like the peduncles, spreading 

 widely, very setose and aciculate. Flowers very numerous; sepals 

 broadly-ovate, acuminate, and generally with lengthened points, 

 felted, shaggy and setose outside, with a whitish border, within 

 greenish white-felted, reflexed in flower, "loosely clasping in fruit" 

 (Linton). Petals rather large, narrowly-obovate, with a short claw, 

 of a peculiar deep pink ; filaments piuk, longer than the red styles. 

 "Drupelets few, rather large, caasious" (Linton). 



Frequent in hedges in a district south of Ashbourne, comprising 

 the adjoining parishes of Osmaston, Shirley, Yeaveley, Edlaston, 

 Brailsford, Hulland, &c. Flowering in July and onwards. 



Differs from R. diversifolius by its weaker stem- armature, thinner 

 leaflets, long flowering branches ; straggling panicle, the branches 

 of which are almost divaricate ; and its narrower and deeply-tinted 

 petals. 



A NEW TREE SENECIO FROM TROPICAL AFRICA. 

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

 Senecio (Arborescentes) Keniensis, n. sp. Arbuscula alt. 

 15-25-30-pedalis, caule sitnplici erecto versus apicem interdum 

 semel vel bis dichotome ramoso, ramulorum apicibus foliis rosulatiin 

 coronatis, foliis non visis, inflorescentiffi bracteis supremis ligulatis 

 1-2 poll, longis, bracteis mediis lanceolatis acuminatis ad extremi- 

 tates attenuatis amplexicaulibus 2-3 poll, longis versus apicein plus 

 minusve lanatis, bracteis mferioribus majoribus 6-8 poll, longis 

 apice acutis vel subobtusis margine pubescentibus haud serratis 

 superne versus basin plus minusve lanato-pubescentibus, capitulis 

 hemisphsericis multifloris in paniculis ovoideis dense albo-lanatis 

 dispositis, pedicellis poll, longis inferioribus ad apicem 



