336 LI. EOSACE^s. (J. D. Hooker.) lEmhis. 



plant, but I am disinclined to replace so excellent, well known and suggestive a one 

 as niveus for another that is in no way distinctive of the species. 



26. R. macilentus, Camb. injaequem. Vay. £oi. 49, t. 60 ; uearlj glabrous, 

 eglandular, prickles stout flattened straight or hooked, leaflets 3 ovate or ovate- 

 lanceolate obtuse acute or acuminate doubly-crenate-toothed, stipules setaceous, 

 peduncles axillary and subterminal 1-3-flowered, cai:pels many glabrous. R. 

 uncatus. Wall. Cat. 750. R. asperj..H5. Royle. 



Temperate Himalaya ; from Hazaea, alt. 4-6000 ft., Stewart, and Kishtwab, alt. 

 5-9000 ft. to SiKKiM and Bhotak, alt. 6-9000 ft. 



Stems trailing, stout, red-brown, obtusely angled, shining ; prickles much flat- 

 tened, J-^ in. Leaflets ^-2 in., rigidly coriaceous, brown when dry, glabrous on both 

 surfaces, terminal usually ovate-laneeolate long-acuminate, lateral sessile, smaller, 

 sometimes orbicular ; midrib beneath with hooked prickles ; petiole stiff, sometimes 

 pubescent along the grooved upper surface. Flowers J in. diam. ; peduncles J-| in., 

 pubescent, rarely 2^3-flowered. Calyx silky outside, tomentose within ; lobes cau- 

 date, erect in fruit. Petals orbieular-obovate, clawed, exceeding the sepals, white. 

 Fruit globose, enclosed in the calyx ; drupes 20-30, yellow or red, glabrous, seated on 

 a columnar pubescent receptacle ; stone rugged. 



37. Xt. sikklmensis, Sooh.f. ; glandular-hairy and covered with long 

 straight prickles, leaflets 3 ovate acuminate lobulate and coarsely crenate glan- 

 dular above nearly glabrous beneath, stipules linear, pedimcles axillary 1-2- 

 flowered, calyx glandular and hispid, lobes caudate, carpels numerous glabrous. 



Subalpine Sikkim Himalaya ; Laehen, alt. 12-13,000 ft., J. D. H. 



A small shrub, dark brown when dry ; stems stout ; gland-tipped hairs long 

 spreading, half as long as the quite-straight shining prickles. Leaflets 1-2 in., ter- 

 minal, sometimes deltoid-ovate, base rounded or subcordate, lateral subsessile, smaller, 

 narrower ; petiole 1-3 in., very slender, pubescent ; stipules ^ in. Peduncles j-1 in., 

 pubescent glandular and bristly as is the calyx. Flowers J in. diam., inclined. Ca- 

 lyx-lobes lanceolate, pubescent on both surfaces. Petals red-purple. — This in many 

 respects resembles B. ptmgens, Camb., and E. horridwhis, H. f. / 



28. It. ellipticus, Smith in Rees Cyclop, xxx, Rvhus 16 ; shaggy with 

 spreading flexuous hairs, prickles scattered stout hooked, leaflets 3 orbicular obo- 

 vate or elliptic obtuse or abruptly acute toothed pale and pubescent beneath, 

 panicles axillary and terminal dense-flowered, calyx-lobes mucronate or acumi- 

 nate, carpels silky. DC. Pi-odr. ii. 563 ; Wall. Cat. 740 in part. R. rotundi- 

 folius, Wcdl. Cat. 730. R. Gowry-phul, Roxh. Sort. Beng. 39. R. Gowreephul, 

 Roxb. Fl. Ind.n.Si.7; W.^ A. Prodr. 298; Wight Ic. t. 230. R. flavus. 

 Ham. in Don, Prodr. 234; Brand. For. Flor. 197 ; Kurz, For. Flor. Brit. Bumi. 

 i. 438. R. sessUifolius, Miq. PI. Ind. Or. Hohenach, 438o, 1153. ? R. paniculatus. 

 Moon. Cat. Ceyl. PI. 



Temperate and subtropical Himalaya, ftom Sikmur, alt. 2-7000 ft. to Sikkim, alt. 

 4-7000 ft. and Bhotan. Khasia Mts., alt. 4-5000 ft. Bibma. Western Ghats from 

 Canaea southwards. Cbtlon, central province, alt. 4-7000 ft. — Disteib. Yunan. 



A tall suberect bush ; branches stout, spreading and recurved, obscurely angled ; 

 hairs red-brown, often very dense, covering a softer down with occasional glandular 

 hairs ; prickles stout, hardly compressed. Leaflets 2—4 in., coriaceous, dark green 

 above, rarely glabrous beneath ; petiole 1-3 in. ; stipules subulate. Panicles small, 

 many-flowered, pedicels short; bracts setaceous. Flowers ^-^ in. diam. Calyx 

 densely pubescent and bristly or not ; lobes ovate, acute acuminate or obtuse and mu- 

 cronate, erect in fruit. Petals obovate, larger than the calyx, white. ' Stamens 

 1-seriate. Fruit globose, exposed ; drupes on a cylindrio hairy receptacle, many, 

 golden yellow, succulent ; stone rugose. 



Vab. hirta ; leaflets green beneath. E. hirtus, Roxb. Hort. Beng. 38 ; Fl. Ind. ii. 



