EmSw.] LI. ROSACBis. (J. D. Hooker.) 335 



lous. Fmit globose, f in. diam. ; outer carpels dry, glabrous below villous above, 

 imbricating over tbe inner succulent carpels ; endocarp pitted ; receptacle broad, he- 

 mispherical, yelvety, intruded at the base. 



** Stems erect sarmentose or climbing, 



25. B. niveus, Wall. Cat. 734; eglandular, bristles 0, branclies and 

 petioles glabrous or tomentose, prickles recurved, leaflets 3 (rarely 5 ) coarsely 

 or finely douUe-toothed lateral obliquely ovate acuminate terminal elliptic ovate 

 or rounded lobulate or lobed, glabrous above, usually white vvith dense pubes- 

 cence beneath, stipules filiform, flowers in lateral and terminal few-flowered 

 tomentose corymbs, caJyx-lobes acuminate or caudate, petals small obovate pink, 

 carpels noany villous. R. gracilis, Soxb. Cat. Sort. Beng. 39 ; Ft. Ind. ii. 519. 



Temperate Himalaya, from Kashmir to Bhotan, at elevation of 6-10,000 ft. in 

 the west and 5-11,500 ft. in the east. 



A large rambling bush, withoat bristles or gland-tipped hairs ; very variable in 

 all its parts. Stem stout and branches often purple, young often quite glabrous and 

 glaucous or thickly or thinly tomentose ; prickles short, scattered, pale. Leaflets 

 1-5 in., entire or lobulate, toothed or creuate, acute acuminate or caudate,'terminal 

 sometimes cordate, usually membranous and glabrous, above sometimes {B. concolor) 

 green and glabrous beneath also ; petiole slender, 1-2 in., with usually 1-2 prickles. 

 Flowers J-1 in. diam., usually on slender unarmed pedicels, lower axillary often soli- 

 tary, upper corymbosely arranged on a long peduncle, nodding ; bracts filiform. Calyx- 

 tube short, flat ; lobes ovate-lanceolate, quite entire, j— ^ in., tomentose on both 

 surfaces, spreading or reflexed in fruit. Petals much smaller than the calyx-lobes. 

 Stamens very numerous. Fruit globose, large or small, of few or many dry or fleshy 

 drupes ; stone pitted. — Closely allied to if. lasiocarpus. I find it impossible to 

 arrange satisfactorily the forms of this most puzzling plant; the following are 

 noticeable. 



Vab. niveus proper ( Wall. Cat. 734), softly pubescent, leaflets 2-3 in. membranous 

 ovate-lanceolate caudate-acuminate lobulate and very acutely deeply toothed, corymbs 

 of 10-12 shorly pediceUed flowers J in. diam. — Nepal and all along the Himalaya. 



Var. pedimculosus ; more robust, leaflets 3-5 in. broader bases more rounded, 

 flowers solitary or in pairs on slender pedicels § in. diam., E. pedunculosus, Von 

 Prodr. 234 ; Wall. Cat. 729.— Nepal, Sikkim. 



Vae. racemostis ; softly tomentose, flowers in short terminal racemes shortly pedi- 

 ceUed subereet. Kashmir, Jacguemont, Falconer. Mmiee, Fleming ("iiniti&Tge yellow 

 brown "). Kashmir, Clarke (fruit bright red) who also has a densely cottony subvar. 

 with abbreviated racemes (Kashmir, 8000 ft.). This resembles what a hybrid with 

 corylifolms might be, 



Vab. hypargyrus ; leaflets ^1 in., sometimes 5, doubly serrately-toothed membra- 

 nous hoary beneath all over or on the nerves only, or quite glabrous. B. hypargyrus, 

 Edgw.jm, Trans. Linn. Soc. xx. 46. R. concolor, Eoyle MS8. Approaches if. lasio- 

 carpus. 



Yas.. Aitchisoni ; slender, finely tomentose, leaflets broad membranous with very 

 large crenatures, fruit | in. diam. of very numerous orange fleshy almost glabrous 

 drupes. Kashmir common at 7000 ft., Aitchison " fruit eatable." 



Var. microcarpa; branches and petiole (6 in.) nearly glabrous, leaflets 4-6 in. 

 broad membranous lobulate and crenate, flowers ^ in., fruit very small of 30-40 quite 

 glabrous dry drupes. — Sikkim, Lachen, alt. 9000 ft., J. D. H. 



Vak. coTKolor ; leaflets as variable as any of above forms, usually membranous 

 glabrous or nearly so beneath acutely inciso-serrate or toothed or coarsely crenate, 

 flowers corymbose, sepals J-1 in. R. concolor. Wall. Cat. 733. — From Kashmir to 

 Kumaon. This passes into var. hypargyrus. 



Vae. Falconeri ; similar to var. concolor'imt carpels quite glabrous ! — N. W. India, 

 Falconer. On the Kishengunga west from Kashmir, Stewart. — This connects if. niveus 

 with if. ccesius, L. 



According to priority, Roxburgh's name of 8. gracilis shoiild be retained for this 



