338 til. EOSACEJi. (J. D, Hooker.) {^Ruhug. 



prickles, leaflets 3 (rarely 5) broad-ovate coarsely acutely doubly crenate white 

 beneath, cymes axillary few-flowered, flowers drooping, carpels pubescent. 



Western temperate Himalaya, Ktjnawue, in the Tibetan region, alt. 1 1-14>000 ft., 

 T. Thomson. — Distbib. N. China. 



Branches stout, shining, pale or dark yellowish ; purple glandular hairs few, scat- 

 tered ; prickles short, flattened, strsiighter on the petioles and inBorescence. Leaflets 

 2—4 in., glabrous above, terminal broad-OTate or orbicular, cordate ; lateral sessile, 

 smaller ; petiole 1-3 in., stout, pale, coloured like the stem ; stipules setaceous, glan- 

 dular. Flowers ^ in. diam., solitary in the lower axils, 2-4 in peduncled cymes in 

 the upper. Calyx pubescent and bristly ; lobes ovate-lanceolate, finely acuminate, 

 erect in fruit. Petals smaller than the calyx, orbicular-oblong. Fruit enclosed in 

 the calya", globose, red, of many (about 20) tomentose drupes situated on a columnar 

 pubescent receptacle ; endocarp pitted. Very near E. colchicus. Herb. Stev., from the 

 Caucasus, if not a few-flowered variety of that plant. Jaesehke sends 5-foliolate 

 leaves of apparently this species from Lahul. 



Vae. subinermis, more slender and lax with the prickles reduced almost to bristles. 

 — Kishtwar, Thomson ; Kashmir, Falconer, alt. 9250 ft., C. B. Clarice ; common in 

 water channels at 8-10,000 ft., Aitehieson. — Clearly a lax state of the Tibetan drier 

 climate prickly plant. 



33. It. lucens, Focke Batogr. in Abhandl. Natwrwiss. Verein, Bremen, iv. 

 199 (1874) ; eglandular, almost glabrous, prickles scattered short booked, leaf- 

 lets 3 ovate elliptic orbicular or ovate-lanceolate caudate-acuminate serrate 

 shining above, stipules linear, racemes axillary and terminal long slender, carpels 

 few hirsute. K. laevigatus. Wall. Cat. 1280. 



EuAsiA Mts., alt. 3-4000 ft., Simons, &c. ; Assam, Jenkins ; Mismtn Hnxs, 

 Gnffith. 



Stem very stout, climbing lofty trees ; branches angled, grooved, quite smooth ; 

 prickles very short. Leaflets 4—5 in., brown when dry, coriaceous, serratures simple, 

 acute, p^tiolules short and nerves beneath puberulous ; petiole 2—6 in., prickles many 

 or few ; stipules almost setaceous. Panicles 6-12 in., lower sometimes crowded in the 

 leaf-axils ; terminal slender, pubescent ; bracts subulate. Flowers small, ; in. diam., 

 in fa&cicles or short corymbs ; pedicels slender. Calyx densely hoary ; tube very 

 short; lobes oblong, obtuse or apiculate, erect in fimit. Petals equalling the sepals, 

 pink or white, obovate, clawed. Stamens 20-30, in one series. Fruit enclosed in 

 the calyx ; drupes 6-8, sweet ; stone rugose ; receptacle low, pubescent. 



Sect. IV. Shrubs. Leaves pinnately 5-7-foliolate, upper (or all in 37. 

 foliolosus) sometimes 3-foliolate. 



34. Xt. biflorus, Sam. ; Smith in Bees Cyclop, xxx. Rvbm 9 ; eglandular, 

 prickles strong hooked, leaflets 3 or 5 ovate lobulate doubly toothed white and 

 tomentose beneath, stipules linear-lanceolate, flowers 1-3 together on axillary 

 slender peduncles drooping, calyx-lobes broad-ovate acuminate, carpels nume- 

 rous woolly above. Wall. Cat. 735 ; BC. Prodr. ii. 558 ; Bot. Mag. t. 4678. 



Temperate Himalaya ; from Siemoeb, alt. 7-9000 ft., to Sncxiii, alt. 8000 ft., 

 and Bhotau. 



A strong rambling shrub ; stems and branches quite glabrous, white with 

 glaucous bloom ; prickles very strong and much recurved. Leaves chiefly on short 

 lateral branches ; upper sometimes 1-foliolate and 3-lobed ; leaflets 1-1 J in., rarely 

 more, acutely tcotned or serrate, pnbescent or hairy above, densely tomentose 

 beneath ; petiole slender, 1-2 in., prickly, pubescent ; stipules ^ in. Peduncles ^-1^ 

 in., unarmed or prickly, usually glabrous ; bracts subulate. Flowers i-f in. diam. 

 Calyx pubescent on both surfaces or glabrate outside ; lobes broaa, subereet or 

 spreading in fruit. Petals equalling or exceeding the calyx, orbicular, white. 

 Stamens numerous. Fruit globose, f in. diam. ; drupes 20-30 golden yellow, suc- 

 culent ; stone reticulated with pits ; receptacle columnar, villous. 



