330 LI. EOSACEiE. (J. D. Hooker.) [Rubus, 



tomentose, often prickly; stipules and bracts peetinately pinnatifid. Flowers ^: 

 in. diam. Caiyx-lobes broadly ovate, acute, with 2-6 long marginal teeth, densely 

 tomentose, almost villous, erect in fruit. , Petals as long as the calyx, white. Fila- 

 ments hairy. Carpels numerous, glabrous. Fruit of 20-30 small drupes, stone wavy 

 on the surface. 



A specimen from Birma ? in Griffith's Herb, is more glabrous with more slender 

 petioles. E. Finlapsoniamts, Wail. Cat. 7109, from Siam, known only from a frag- 

 ment in bud, differs in the apparently entire calyx-lobes clothed with buff tomentum. 



ttt Leaves normally broader than long, palmately 5-7-lobed ; stipules pin- 

 natifid or pectinate. Carpels many. 



11. It. moluccanus, Linn. ; DC. Prodr. ii. 566 ; eglandxilar, tomentose 

 villous or sublanate, pricMea scattered short curved, leaves long-petioled usually 

 deeply cordate broad ovate or orbicular obtusely or acutely 3-7-Iobed toothed 

 smooth scabrid or rugose above, beneath clothed with grey or yellow wool or 

 pubescence, panicles axillary and terminal, calyx villous and sUty, lobes lan- 

 ceolate or ovate acute entire or with pectinate margins, carpels very many. — 

 Roxh. Fl. Ind. ii. 518 ; Miq. Fl. Ind. Ind. Bat. i. part 1, 382 ; Wall. Cat. 743 ; 

 Kurz Fw. Flm: Brit. Burm. i. 437. B. rugosus. Smith in Bees Cyo. xxx. 

 Bubus 34 ; Dm Prodr. 234 ; Wiffht et Am. Prodr. 299 ; Dalz. ijr Gibs. Bomh. 

 Flm: 89 ; Thwaites Fnum. 101 ; Wight. Ic. t. 225 ; Wall. Cat. 748 ; Plant. As. 

 Bar. iii. 19, t. 234 (Hamiltomianus). R. alcesefolius. Pair. Encycl. vi. 247. R. 

 micropetalus, macrocarpus, and Fairholmianus, Gardner in Calo. Joum. Nat. 

 Hist. viii. 6. R. cordifolius, Don Prodr. 233. R. reflexus, Ker in Bot. Beg. 461 ; 

 Benth. Hmig-Kmig Flor. 104. R. Hamiltonianus. Seringe in DC. Prodr. ii. 

 566.— Bumph. Amboin. v. 88, t. 47, f. 2. 



Central and Eastern tropical and temperate Himalaya. Nepai, Wallich. Sikkim, 

 alt. 3-7000 ft. Assam ; Khasia. Mts., alt. 3-5000 ft. Bttema. Eastern Peninstila. 

 Western Peninsuxa or the &hats from Bombay Southward. Ceylon ascending to 

 7000 ft. — DisTEiB. Malay Archipelago and Islands. 



Stem very robust, with wide spreading subscandent branches, densely clothed 

 with white grey or falvous tomentum ; prickles hooked, flattened. Leaves 2-10 in. 

 diam., most variable in texture and pubescence ; upper surface smooth or covered 

 with tubercles answering to the spaces between the nervules ; under pubescent vil- 

 lous or clothed with cottony wool, grey or green or buff-coloured, never quite white ; 

 petiole 2-4 in., glabrate or tomentose ; stipules variable in size, oblong, toothed 

 pinnatifid Jaciniate or pectinate. Inflorescence usually clothed with silky buff to- 

 mentum, rarely, white or glabrate. Flowers very variable in size, from ^-1 in., in 

 rather contracted terminal panicles and axilleiry capitate clusters ; bracts like the 

 stipules, never bearing gland-tipped hairs. Calyx-lobes 1-J in. long, usually tri 

 angular-ovate, rarely lanceolate, and then pinnatifid in the upper part, erect in fruit. 

 Petals obovate, white, shorter than the calyx -lobes. Filaments glabrous. Carpels 

 numerous, glabrous. Fruit globose, succulent, of many scarlet small drupes; re- 

 ceptacle villous ; stone rugose. 



I am quite unable to arrange the form of this common and protean plant under 

 recognisable varieties answering to its synonymy. The original B. Tmluccaims, 

 founded on the plate and description of Bumphius, has leaves with a rugose upper 

 surface (folia superne quam maxime rugosa) and a whitish or ochreous under surface. 

 I have it from Assam, the Khasia Mts., Penang and Java; and with the lobes rather 

 acute from Nepal and almost all localities, where it becomes if. rugostis, Sm., de- 

 scribed as such by Wallich (Plant As. Ear.), and figured under its synonym 

 B. Hamiltonianus. Specimens with acuminate leaf-lobes occur at considerable 

 elevations in the Himalaya and Khasia Mts., where the leaves also become more 

 membranous and very large with pale undersurface ; at similar elevations and 

 localities large leaved states occur with very large flowers, and lanceolate sepals 

 J in. long. The branches and inflorescence of Malacca specimens are most densely 



