Muhus.'] LI. KOSACEJE. (J. D. Hooker.) 337 



518 ; E. Wallichianus, Wt.^-Arn. Prodr. 298 ; Dalz. ^ Oiba. Bomb. Flor. 89 ; ,R. ellip- 

 ticus, in part Wall. Cat. 740 ; E. affinis, Madden M88. — Himalaya and Western Ghats. 

 Vab. dermdata ; shaggy hairs absent or very rare. E. rotundifolius, Wall. Cat. 

 730 in part. — Kumaon, Bhotan. 



29. R. frutloosus, lAnn. ; DC. Prodr. ii. 560 ; var. discolor ; eglandu- 

 lar, ■branches robust and leaves beneath hoary with white stellate tomentum, 

 prickles short scattered hooked, leaflets orbicular obovate or elliptic obtuse or 

 acute, stipules setaceous, flowers in dense thyrsoid terminal panicles, calyx-lobes 

 short acute reflexed in fruit, carpels quite glabrous. E. discolor, Weihe &■ Nees : 

 Boiss. Ft. Orient, ii. 695. 



Western temperate Himalaya, alt. 3-7000 ft. from Mubebb to Jamtt.— Distbib. 

 Afghanistan and westward to the Atlantic. 



Stems arched, obtusely angled, channelled ; prickles stout. Leaflets sometimes 5 

 at the base of the stem, 1-2 in., coriaceous, sometimes abruptly acuminate ; petiole 

 ^-1 in., flattened above; stipules subulate, velvety. Panicles 6-10 in.; branches 

 short, very stout, densely tomentose ; pedicels stout, short ; bracts often toothed or laci- 

 niate. Flowers ^-^ in. diam. (7o?yx-<MAe short, lobes woolly on both surfaces, sharply 

 reflexed in fruit. Petals obovate, pink. Stamens very numerous, in many series. 

 Fruit small, globose ; drupes many, fleshy, black ; receptacle deciduous ; stone 

 pitted. 



30. B,. Clarkel, Sbok. f. ; herbaceous ?, eglandular, branches petioles and 

 peduncles very slender faintly pubescent and with copious slender acicular 

 straight prickles, leaflets 3 orbicular obtuse and coarsely doubly crenate laxly 

 pubescent beneath, stipules oblong green, peduncles 1-8-flowered axillary, calyx- 

 lobes lanceolate. 



Kashmie, at Sonamung, alt. 9250 ft., C. B. Clarke. 



A very slender small perhaps herbaceous species ; branches probably armed, soft, 

 green, laxly clothed with spreading hairs ; prickles numerous, very slender, quite 

 straight, not extending to the midribs. Leaflets 2—3 in. long, nearly as broad, dark 

 green, rounded or cuneate at the base, petiolulate ; petiole 1-3 in., slender ; stipules 

 persistent, obtuse or acute, entire or serrate, pubescent. Flowers drooping, J in. diam., 

 solitary in the lower axils, corymbose in the upper ; bracts green, small, oblong, 

 acute. Calyx-t^xbe not bristly, densely pubescent ; lobes narrow-lanceolate. Fruit 

 of few glabrous drupes; stone pitted. — Of this very distinct species 1 have seen no 

 flowers. 



31. R, antennlfer, Sook.f. ; eglandular, branches petioles and peduncles 

 laxly pubescent and with copious slender straight acicular prickles, leaflets 3 or- 

 biciUar-ovate acuminate lobulate and acutely doubly toothed, faintly pubescent 

 beneath, stipules linear-lanceolate acuminate, corymbs axillary and terminal, 

 calyx-lobes ovate with long slender tips, carpels very many gilabrous. 



Kashmie; Sonamurg, alt. 8500, ft., O. B.. Clarke. 



A much stouter plant than if. Clarkei, similarly clothed with slender straight 

 prickles and soft hairs, but the leaflets are more coriaceous, very acutely toothed, the 

 lateral sessile, the terminal cordate, and the inflorescence and flowers are quite dif- 

 ferent. Stipules l-i in., green, persistent, quite entire. Peduncles often 2-3 in., 

 stiff, erect, the terminal continuing the branch and bearing a branched corymb ; pedi- 

 cels often long and slender ; bracts filiform. Flowers erect, |-1 in. across the sepals. 

 Calyx not or hardly bristly, tomentose ; lobes pubescent on both surfaces ovate, sud- 

 denly contracted into filiform tips often as long as themselves. Petals orbicular-ob- 

 ovate, white, about equalling the limb of the calyx. Carpels on a columnar pubescent 

 receptacle. 



32. XI, purpureus, Burige Emim. Plant. Chin. Bar. 24; glandular, 

 branches petioles inflorescence and calyxes densely covered with small deflexed 



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