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tomentose or pubescent ; leaves oblong to elliptically rarely ovate- 
oblong, acuminate or acute, on a short recurved-prickly villous 
petiole 2-4 lin. long, obtuse or rounded at the base, not, or rarely 
coarsely serrate-lobed, toothed, 3-5 in. long, rather coriaceous, the 
pubescent nerves excepted glabrous, or the veins beneath sprinkled 
with hairs and the midrib armed with a few recurved prickles ; 
flowers white, on slender 2-3 lin. long pubescent pedicels, forming 
pubescent tomentose panicles in the axils of the upper leaves and 
more ample ones at the end of the branches; bracts and stipules 
pinnatifid, the segments linear-subulate, slightly pubescent ; calyx 
velvety-tomentose or pubescent, the lobes entire, subulate-acumi- 
nate ; petals nearly half as long as the calyx-lobes ; carpels as large 
as a pepper-kernel, by 3-6 on the short villous torus, ovate, acumi- 
nate, glabrous, succulent, ; 
Has.—Ava, Kakhyen hills.—Fl. Fr. March. 
2. R. Moluccanus, L.—A large scrambling shrub, armed with 
numerous small recurved prickles, the branches and petioles terete 
and clothed with a short rusty or whitish woolly down often mixed 
with longer hairs, or softly pubescent ; leaves from broadly cordate- 
lobes blunt or acute (the basal ones diverging or converging), 
toothed or serrate-toothed, 3-4 in. long, acute or sometimes long- 
e lobes acuminate or acute, 3-4 lin. long, fruit almost globular, 
bright-red, glabrous, slightly acid. 
Has.—Frequent in the drier hill forests and hill toungyas of Martaban ; 
also Ava hills.—Fl. Feb.-March.—l.—SS.—Metam. 
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and blunt (or in luxuriant forms acute), flat, unequally and sharply 
serrate-toothed, membranous, 4-6 in. long, sprinkled with a few 
hairs or almost glabrous, the principal nerves often pubescent and 
beneath sparingly prickly ; flowers white, on 4-5 lin. long pubescent 
