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laciniate. Flowers unisexual^ solitary or in few-flowered terminal or axillary 

 panicles. Sepals acuminatej ultimately reflexed. Fruit iin.— lin. loiig^ red, 

 edible. 



SOUTH Island: source of the Heaphy River; valley of the Teremakau , near Jackson's; 

 valley of the Grey ; mountains above Lyell Creek ; valley of the Buller. 200ft. to 4,000ft. 



This curious species may be an arrested state of B. australis. The ripe fruits resemble large 

 raspberries, 



*R. Idaeus, L., Sp. PL 492. Stems 2ft.-5ft. high, slender, erect or suberect, 

 giving off suckers ; prickles straight. Leaves pinnately 3-5-foliolate ; leaflets ovate- 

 acuminate, sharply serrated, white beneath. Prickles of flowering shoots deflexed. 

 Flowers corymbose, axillary or terminal, drooping, white. Ripe fruits separating 

 from the receptacle, red. 



NORTH and SOUTH Islands: sparingly naturalised. Raspberry. Oct., Nov. Europe, 

 North Africa. 



*R. fruticosus, L.. Sp. PL 49-3. Stem arcuate, prickly, usually furrowed. 

 Leaves palmately 3-5-foliolate. Flowers in terminal much-branched and often 

 elongated leafy panicles. Fruit large, black or purplish. 



Blackherry. Bramble. Europe. 



An extremely variable plant, the numerous forms of which are treated as species by many 

 botanists, while others regard them merely as varieties. The three following are widely naturalised. 



* R. rusticanus, Weihe. Stem prostrate or arched, angular, downy ; prickles 

 deflexed from a large compressed base. Leaves small, 5-foliolate, convex above ; 

 terminal leaflet obovate-acuminate ; white with closely appressed tomentum beneath. 

 Panicle long and very narrow, leafy at the base, prickly. Calyx white with densely 

 appressed tomentum. Corolla pink. Fruit reddish, scarcely edible. 



NORTH and SOUTH Islands : naturalised in many localities. Dec, Jan. Europe. 



* R. leuGOStachys, Sm. Forming dense bushes, 2ft. -4ft. high. Stem arched 

 or nearly prostrate, angular ; hairs spreading, rarely glandular ; prickles numerous, 

 slender, patent. Leaflets quinate, hairy, flat, shining, white with felted hairs 

 beneath, finely toothed ; terminal leaflet ovate or obovate. Panicle elongated, 

 narrow; branches short, few-flowered, hairy, setose; prickles slender, deflexed. 

 Calyx hairy, setose. Petals white or pinkish. 



NORTH Island: Auckland, Wellington. SOUTH Island : Westlaud. Naturalised; probably 

 common. Dec, Jan. 



* R. macrophyllus, Weihe. Forming dense bushes, 6ft. -9ft. high. Stem 

 angular, arched or nearly prostrate, more or less pilose ; prickles short, slender, 

 conical-compressed, hooked, base large, dilated. Leaflets 5-nate, irregularly serrate 

 or dentate, pilose above, pale-green, soft and velvety beneath ; terminal leaflet 

 roundly obovate or cuspidate or acuminate, cordate. Panicle hairy, felted, setose, 

 corymbose ; lower branches axillary and ascending ; prickles declining. Sepals ovate, 

 alternate, hairy, loosely reflexed in fruit. Petals white, large. 



NORTH and SOUTH Islands : naturalised, Wellington, Nelson, Westland. 



Var. Schleolitendalilil (sp.), Weihe and Nees Prickles short, springing from a large base. 

 Leaflets quinate, doubly dentate, hairy on the veins only ; terminal leaflet long, obovate, acuminate, ' 

 cuneate or subcordate at base. Prickles of the panicle strong. Sepals with a long point. Corolla 

 white. SOUTH Island : Brightwater. Identified by the Rev. W. Moyle Rogers. 



* R, laciniatus, Willd., Hort. BeroL t. 82. A low bush, 2ft.-8ft. high, with 

 stout arcuate or subprostrate grooved angular stems. Prickles deflexed from an 

 elongated base, rather stout, thin. Leaflets quinate, with long slender petioles, 



