Buhus.] LI. EOSACE^. (J. D. Hooker.) 341 



beneath except the nerves which have a yellowish pubescence ; petiole stout, prickly 

 or not ; stipules setaceous, quite entire. Flowers much crowded, J in. diam. ; bracts 

 setaceous, very tomentose. Calt/x densely tomentose and bristly; lobes lanceolate, 

 acuminate, quite entire. Petals Obovate-oblong. Ccarpels with long silky hairs, not 

 tomentose as in the ordinary forms of B. laewcarptts. Fruit globose, of many fleshy 

 orange-red almost glabrous drupes ; stone deeply pitted. — This is possibly another 

 extreme form of if. lasiocarpus, which (like R. racemosus) has become glandular. 



39. It. horrldulus, Hook. f. ; eglandular, prickles very many crowded 

 hooked, branches arched, leaflets 5-7 densely softly hairy incised-serrate, 

 petioles and single-flowered peduncles densely clothed with hooked prickles, 

 calyx-tube hemispheric densely clothed with straight prickles, petals purple, 

 carpels villous. 



Bhotan, <it Panga, alt. 7600 ft., Griffith. 



Branches cylindric. Slender, glabrous, with usually straight slightly compressed 

 prickles. Leaves ?-i in. ; petiole very slender, sparingly hairy, with numerous 

 strongly hooked prickles ; leaflets 5— ^ in., equally clothed with long soft flexuous 

 hairs on both surfaces, acute or acuminate. Pe^miele clothed and armed like the 

 petioles, 1 in., always 1-flowered. Galyx-tvbe ^ in. diam., quite clothed with spread- 

 ing straight shining prickles ; lobes large, ovate-lanceolate,- long-acuminate, quite 

 entire, pubescent on both surfaces, erect in fruit. Petals small, purple according to 

 Griffith's notes. Stamens very numerous. Carpels numerous, villous, with long 

 straight white hairs. Fruit small, of 6-12 subpubescent drupes ; stone renifortn, 

 rugosely pitted. — This appears to be in every way a very distinct species, but it is 

 impossible to say to what extent more copious materials may modify the above 

 description ; it is allied to E. eikMmensis, H. f., and pwngens, Camb. 



40. It. pungrens, Camh. in Jacq. Voy. Bat. 48, t. 59 ; eglandular except 

 sometimes the inflorescence and petioles, prickles many slender straight, stems 

 veiy long and slender, leaflets 5-7 membranous ovate deeply inciso-serrate 

 glabrous concolorous, flowers solitary or 2-3 axillary long-peduncled, calyx 

 densely prickly, lobes caudate, carpels with long hairs. Maximov. Diagn. 

 X. 386. 



Kashmir, Falconer, Jacqnemont ; Shapinga, alt. 7000 ft., C. B. Clarke ; woods at 

 Gulmuz at 8600 ft., Mtchieson. Khagan, 100 miles N.W. of Kashmir, alt. 8000 ft., 

 Stewart. — Distrib. Japan (a variety). 



Branches long, lax, cylindric, trailing, green, glabrous except the pubescent tips. 

 Leaves 2-4 in., petiole very slender, sometimes glandular, unarmed or with faintly 

 hooked prickles ; leaflets 1-1^ in., sessile, bright-green on both surfaces, quite 

 glabrous or faintly hairy on the nerves beneath, terminal broader, cordate, 3-lobed ; 

 stipules narrow lanceolate or setaceous. Flowers nearly 1 in. diam., erect ; peduncle 

 Btout, slender, prickly and pubescent. Calyx-tvhe hemispheric ; lobes sometimes § in. 

 long, pubescent on both surfaces, spreading in fruit. Petals obovate-spathulate, 

 longer than the calyx, white (?). Fruit globose, small; drupes few, on a conical 

 glabrous receptacle, pubescent, stone minutely pitted. — Clearly closely allied to 

 i?. horridulus and si/ckimensis, but with more the habit of B. idceus or saxaiilis. 

 The petals are multiplied in Falconer's specimen. 



41. It. rossefolius, Smith Ic. ined. iii. t. 60 ; glabrous or pubescent, 

 glandular-hairy or not, prickles scattered hooked, leaves long, leaflets 5-7 ovate- 

 lanceolate acuminate doubly inciso-serrate, green on both surfaces, stipules 

 subulate-lanceolate, flowers solitary and in very loose panicles, calyx-lobes 

 caudate, petals white exceeding the calyx, ^pels excessively numerous, fruit 

 large of innumerable orange-red minute glabrous drupes. Moxh. Fl. Ind. ii. 

 618 ; Wall. Cat. 728 ; Kurz For. Flor. Brit. Burm. i. 439 ; Hook. Ic. PI. t. 349. 

 R. pinnatus, Willd. R. asper, Don Prodr. 234 ; Wall. Cat. 741. 0. sikkim- 



