] LI. EOSAOEiE. (J. D. Hooker.; 333- 



membranous, stipules filifonn, flowers axillary solitary or in very short racemes 

 or panicles, calyx unarmed, lobes acute or caudate, carpels many pubescent. 



SlKKIM HiMATATA, alt. 8-11,000 ft., J, D. H., &c. 



A slender trailing species, nearly glabrous or with pubescent branches petioles 

 peduncles and nerves of the leaflets beneath, rarely above. Leaflets very mem- 

 branous, terminal 2 in., often rhomboid-ovate, contracted at the base ; lateral usually 

 not half the size, petiolate ; petiole slender, 1-2 in., with few prickles ; stipules entire 

 or divided. Flowers J-J in. diam., peduncles and pedicels short. Calyx-tube nearly 

 glabrous; lobes pubescent, sometimes produced and leafy, suberect in fruit. Petals 

 small, orbicular, red. Fruit globose ; drupes many, pale red, pubescent ; stone 

 minutely pitted. 



** Leaves silky beneath. 



19. It. llueatus, Rdnw. in Blume Bijd. 1108 ; eglandular, prickles 0' 

 or few smaU. scattered, leaflets 3 or 5 elliptic oblong or lanceolate ciliate-serrate 

 caudate-acuminate, beneath with many straight nerves and dense silky silvery 

 tomentum, calyx-lobes ovate acuminate silky. Miquel Fl. Ind. Bat. i. paH i.. 

 378. R. pulcherrimus. Hook. Ic. PI. t. 729-730. — Rubus Sp., Clarke in Journ. 

 Linn. Soc. xv. 141. 



SiKKiM Himalayas, alt. 6-9,000 ft. — Disteib. Java. 



A strong suberect herb ; branches softly pubescent, young silky ; prickles when 

 present straight. Leaflets 3 or 5, 4-5 by ^-2 J in., subsessile, coriaceous, acuminate or 

 cuneate at the base, often doubly-serrate, upper surface glabrous ribbed, under 

 shining with 20-30 straight nerves on each side, one to every tooth ; petiole 1-2 in., 

 pubescent ; stipules j-J in., membranous, ovate-oblong, obtuse, entire, glabrate. 

 Flowers in axillary short heads and terminal elongate silvery panicles, §-1 in. diam. ;. 

 bracts large, concave, orbicular, membranous. Petals obovate, shorter than the calyx, 

 white. Drupes numerous, small, red, stone rugose. — Very variable in the size of the 

 flowers and breadth of the leaflets. 



Var. 1. angustifoUa; smaller, leaflets much narrower. 



Vab. 2. glabrior ; leaflets siliy beneath on the nerves only. Mishmi, Griffith. 



20. R. Andersoni, Sook.f. ; glandular, unarmed, young shoots petioles 

 and inflorescence hispid with spreading gland-tipped hairs, leaflets 3 or 5 

 elliptic or elliptic-oblong caudate-acuminate ciliate-serrate, beneath with many 

 straight nerves and dense silvery silky tomentum, calyx-lobes triangular-lan- 

 ceolate caudate. Subvs Sp., Clarke in Journ. Linn. Soc. xv. 141. 



SiKKiM Himalaya, alt. 7-8000 ft., J. D. H., Anderson. 



Very similar in foliage to broad-leaved states of R. lineatus, but at once dis- 

 tinguished by the almost setose purple gland-tipped spreading hairs, the long 

 caudate-acuminate calyx-lobes which are also setxjse, and flowers in terminal broad 

 panicles with long pedicels. It is a very rare plant ; I gathered it near Darjeeling, as 

 did Mr. C. B. Clarke, and on Sinchul. Dr. Anderson's specimens are stated to be 

 from Puntabarri in a hot region, but I suspect some error. 



Sbkebs III. Leaves pinnately 3-foliolate. 



* Stems slender creeping or p'ostrate, 



21. R. saxatUls, Linn. ; Soiss. Flor. Oriemt. ii. 691 ; eglandular, 

 glabrous or slightly pubescent, prickles few slender straight, leaflets 3 rhombic- 

 ovate somewhat lobed acutely doubly-toothed, calyx unarmed, lobes ovate- 

 lanceolate acute longer than the narrow petals, carpels few glabroiis. 



Western temperate Himalayas in the Tibetan region from Kashmie to KtmAON, 

 alt. 10-11,000 ft. Westben Tibet, Dras, alt. 10,000 ft. — ^Disteib. Caucasus and 

 westward to the Atlantic, Siberia, Dahuria. 



