340 LI. EOSACEai. (J. D. Hooker.) [^Buhiis. 



serrate iaintly pubescent on the nerves beneath ; dark brown when dry, midrib be- 

 neath often priekly. Ceylon. — ^Kurz {Journ. As. Soc. Beng. 1876, pt. ii. 307) refers 

 Roxburgh's S. rosaflorus to B. roscefolius, Sm., but a reference to Hardwick's de- 

 scription cited by Eoxburgh proves that this cannot be correct. 



36. R. racemosus, Hoxh. Fl. Ind. ii. 519 ; liTaiichlets petioles ,and 

 inflorescence clothed with glandular hairs, prickles straight or hooked, leaflets 

 5-7 ovate or orbicular-ovate acutely toothed, beneath usually densely white- 

 tomentose, stipules lanceolate, corymbs axillary and terminal, calyx prickly, 

 petals large red, carpels many villous. B. lasiocarpus, Sm., Far. f Miq. PI. 

 Exiioe. Bohenack. No. 1152. 



NiLOHiEi Mts., Adam, Gardner, &c. Pclney Mts., Wight. 



I cannot doubt this being an extreme form of if. lasiocarpus, readily distinguish- 

 able by the copious glandular bristles and hairs, the usually densely tomentose 

 branches, corymbs, petioles, &c., and the prickly calyx and large petals ; the leaflets 

 too are usually broader, very coriaceous, glabrous above or with sometimes copious 

 almost woolly hairs. In Hohenacker's specimens however the branchlets and 

 petioles are nearly glabrous, and in all the branches are beautifully pruinose. The 

 sepals are caudate and quite entire. Wight's Pulney mountain specimens have the 

 leaflets more membranous, almost glabrous beneath except along the nerves, like var. 

 subglaber of B. lasiocarpa. I have seen no authentic specimen of Eoxbuigh's plant 

 (which Kurz (Andaman fieport) refers to lasiocarpus) and refer the above to it as 

 the only Peninsular species according with his description. 



37. B.. foliolosus, Don Prodr. 256 {microphyUus, p. 234) ; eglandular, 

 branches petioles and inflorescence villous or densely tomentose, prieMes 

 straight or hooked, leaflets 3-7 small ovate or almost orbicular coarsely erenate- 

 toothed or serrate wMte-tomentose beneath, flowers small in axillary branched 

 long pedimcled corymbs, petals small red, carpels villous. — R. Eoylei, Klotzseh 

 in Jleise Pr. Waldem. Bot. 154, t. 6. R. parvifolius, Smith in JRees Cyclop, ixx. 

 Subus 21, not of Zinn. ; Wall. Cat. 736. 



Central and Western temperate Himalayas. Nipai,, Wallich ; Chamba. to XiruA.oi(, 

 alt. 5-8000 ft., Thomson, &c. 



Except by its usually prostrate habit and much smaller size, I do not think that 

 this is distinguishable from if. lasioca/rpus. In Wallieh's specimens the leaflets are 

 ^ in. long, lateral orbicular cuneate, terminal lobed, are very pubescent above and 

 white beneath, but in Thomson's and others they become more ovate glabrous above 

 and almost silky beneath or even glabrous except along the nerves as in varieties of 

 lasiocarpus. The flowers are numerous, about ^ in. diam., with pink petals equalling 

 the calyx-lobes ; and the fruit is very small, white and villous. Don, misled by a 

 specimen of B. Uflorus sent under the same name by Wallich (and fsisteaed on the 

 same sheet in Herb. Linn. Soc), describes the peduncles as 3-flowered. Maximovicz 

 Diagn. x. 392, is certainly wrong in referring this to the if. parvifolius, Linn. 



38. B,. opulifolius, Bertol. Misc. Bot. xxii. 16, t. 4; inflorescence 

 glandular-hairy and as well as the stout branches and petioles densely sofHy 

 tomentoge, prickles few straight or hooked, leaflets 3-5 acute or acuminate 

 crenate-toothed coriaceous densely clothed beneath with white wool, lateral 

 elliptic terminal broader lobed, flowers in axillary and terminal subsessile 

 abbreviated racemes, calyx vrith glandular bristles, petals small red, carpejs 

 many silky. 



TiHASiA Mt., at Moflong, alt. 6500 fl., Grifith ; J. D. H. ^ T. T. Upper Kala 

 Pani, alt, 4000 ft., C. B. Clarice. 



A much more robust plant than if. lasiocarpus, with dense soft tomentum on the 

 young and even on last year's branches, the older of which are however glaucous and 

 pruinose (as in all these red-flowered species) ; prickles when straight large and 

 much flattened. Leaflets 1J-2J in., sofdy downy or glabrous above, very white 



