.] LI. KOSACEJi. (J. D. Hooker,) 331 



villous with spreading hairs and the basal leaf-lobes overlap. The Western Ghat 

 specimens have the leaves rugose above and thin, and the branches and inflorescenc& 

 densely clothed with firm biiff cottony tomentum. This is also the case with the 

 Ceylon specimens, of which Thwaites distinguishes 4 varieties : — o. bracts ovate 

 entire or cut at the tip, firuit small red (Wight.' Ic. t. 22S) ; /3. leaves smaller 

 narrower more acute, stipules and bracts cut into filiform segments, petals small, 

 fruit dark red (i?. mioropetalm, Gard.); (I should refer this to fflomeraiws, Bl.); 

 y. tomentose, pale, leaves very rugose and coriaceous, stipules and bracts less deeply- 

 cut, panicle dense, calyx-lobes ovate-lanceolate toothed, fruit dark red (B. Fair- 

 kolmianus, Gard.) ; S. prickles short, stipules and bracts less cut, panicles few-flowered, 

 flowers larger, petals about equalling the calyx, fruit larger black {B. macrooarpus, 

 Gard.) ; of these o. only inhabits low grounds. 



12. R, reticulatus, Wall. Cat. 747 ; eglandular, pubescent -with vyliite 

 tomentum, prickles fevf minute or 0, leaves cordate-orbicular subacutely 5-7- 

 lobed reticulated on both surfaces finely downy beneath, panicles entire or 

 laciniate ovate acute, calyx-lobes densely tomentose, fruit globose much larger 

 than the calyx. 



Temperate Himalaya ; from Ktjmaon, alt. 7-8000 ft., to Sikkim, alt. 9-10,000 ft. 



This I expect will prove another form of- B. moVucccmus from a higher region, 

 the leaves of the Kumaon and Sikkim specimens are large broad and rather thin in 

 texture ; Wallich's Nepal ones are more coriaceous, narrower and elongate with many 

 lateral lobes, more like those of B. paniculatms, to which Wallich says it is ' valde 

 afiiuis.' Sikkim specimens have the cut calyx-lobes. The fruit is very large. 



13. Xt. lanatus, Wall. Cat. 746 ; glandular, branches and leaves be- 

 neath white cottony, leaves cordate orbicialar-ovate acute obscurely lobed serrate 

 glabrous or hairy above, panicles short dense densely villous and covered vnth 

 gland-tipped hairs, petals small narrowly linear-oblong, carpels numerous. 

 R. tiliaceus, Serb. Str. <& Winterb. 



Central and Western temperate Himalayas. Nepai, Wallich. KtrMAOu, alt. 

 5-8000 ft., Madden, Strach. and Winterb. 



The very broadly ovate cordate obscurely lobed leaves, white cottony tomentum, 

 and above all the long glandular hairs of the young shoots and inflorescence best 

 distinguish this species, which has the other characters of B. moluccamis. It may 

 be likened to a dense-flowered glandular B. paniculatus, with broader leaves. 



14. R. birmanicus, Hook.f.; eglandular, branches petioles and leaves 

 densely clothed with long spreading flexuo'us hairs, prickles very copious 

 hooked, leaves acutely palmately 5-lobed crenate rugose above white with 

 appressed down beneath, stipules and bracts cut into long capillary lobes, 

 flowers large, calyx-lobes broad, petals orbicular, carpels excessively numerous. 



BmiiA ; in the Patkaye hills, E. of the Assam frontier, Griffith. 



Branches flexuous, hairs red brown when dry ; prickles stout recurved flattened 

 extending to petioles and nerves beneath, but not to the panicle, compressed. Leaves 

 3-4 in. diam., rather coriaceous, lobes extending nearly half way down, triangular, 

 dark above when dry with pubescent nerves, dirty brownish white beneath ; petiole 

 IJ in., stout ; stipules J in., as broad as long across the almost capillary divisions. 

 Panicle (in bud only) narrow with short branches, and bracts as large as the stipules ; 

 buds very broadly ovoid, densely tomentose but not hairy like the peduncles and 

 pedicels. Calyx-tube hemispheric, lobes broad subacute, entire. Petals equalling 

 the calyx-lobes, clawed. Stamens excessively numerous, in many series. Carpels 

 upwards of 100, glabrous, styles very slender with a few hairs on the stigma j 

 receptacle villous. — ^A very remarkable species. 



15. R, Treutlerl, Hook. f. ; more or less glandular, softly tomentose 

 with spreading flexuous hairs, prickles slender nearly straight, leaves orbicular- 



