436 ROSACER. [ Rubus, 
we ——— Kz.—An evergreen tree, the younger branch- 
lets slightly appressed pubescent or puberulous ; leaves elliptical to 
ellip tioalts la anceolate, on slender rusty-pubescent petioles about 3 
lin. long, obtuse at the base, bluntish and often very long acuminate, 
entire, 2-3} in. long, almost membranaceous, above glabrous or 
minutely pubescent on the impressed thin nerves, beneath appressed 
pubescent along the midrib; racemes densely tawny tomentose Py 
e 
ie erica 
RUBUS, L. 
Calyx open, 5 5 lobed, the lobes without external accessory bracts, 
imbricate. Petals 5. Stamens usually indefinite, inserted on the 
mouth of the ae ; filaments filiform ; anthers didymous. Carpels 
indefinite, each with 2 suspended ovules, of which one abortive ; 
style terminal. Fruita head of succulent rarely dry carpels forming 
- usually a spurious granulated berry round the dry or spongy recep~ 
tacle-—Shrubs, usually scrambling and prickly, rarely erect, with 
aT lobed, or compound leaves. Flowers axillary or in terminal 
anicles. 
* ip at Seed (only 3-6), dry ; leaves simple . . R. pyrifolius. 
*x* C $s numerous, — @ sappy spurious berry. 
oO oh simple or lobed, 
a leaves beneath covered with a tomen- 
tum more or less mi with longer hairs. 
Calyx-lobes entire 
Bracts and stipules entire or subulate- toothed, sometimes very 
at Oh so, and then the lobes very short ; . R,rugosus. 
Bracts stipules pinnatel: the segnenias lo “thin, an 
often filiform ‘ = ~~ re RB Moluccanus. 
a - All parts, t+ 
rath er rt th or pa ely ob B pec- 
toothed . BR. feror. 
O O Leaves digitately or pinnately compoun 
Leaves digitately 3- or 5-foliolate ; a ee 
— pubescent or er: = . . R, pentagonus. 
es pinnately 3-foliolate 
Leaves pinnately 3-foliolate ; leaflets beneath salutes or a taeiek 
tomentose; flowers white ; fruits glabrous . B. flavus. 
“Leaves unpaired-pinnate ; leaflets beneath white or yellowish 
tomentose ; flowers red or rose-coloured ; fruits tomentose . R. /asiocarpus. 
ae - Leaves unpaired-pinnate a eat ionioreely “aes flowers white; 
fruits — . BR. rosafolius. 
Ae A nes rambling shrub, gore. 4, 108 
in od with: mie queen prickles, the branchlets terete, 
