306 APPENDIX. 



slender; sepals ovate-subacuminate, setose, loosely ad- 

 pressed to the black-blue fruit; petals obovate ; styles 

 flesh-coloured at the base. 



R. althseifolius, Host in Trattin Bos. 37 ; Fl. Aust. ii. 31. 



Ser. in DC. Prod. ii. 562. 

 R. Wahlbergii /3 glabratus, Bell-Salt in Bot. Gaz. ii. 129 ; 



in Fl. Vect. 160 (Syn. excl.). 



10. R. tuberculdtus ; stem arching very slightly, with scattered 

 short hairs and short setse ; prickles many, unequal, slen- 

 der, patent from an oolong tubercular base; leaves ternate 

 or quinate; leaflets rather doubly dentate, hairy on the 

 veins beneath, green on both sides; basal leaflets of the 

 ternate leaves bilobate; terminal leaflet roundish-cordate, 

 subcuspidate ; basal leaflets of the quinate leaves subses- 

 sile, overlapping the intermediate leaflets; panicle leafy, 

 with racemose axillary branches and a corymbose top ; 

 prickles from the middle to the top of the panicle and 

 peduncles slender and longest ; sepals ovate-acuminate, 

 prickly, setose, loosely adpressed to the fruit. 

 R. nemorosus S ferox, Leight. Shropshire Rubi. 

 R. dumetorum, Blow. Fasc. of Rubi. 



Although Mr Leighton named this plant wrong and never 

 published any account of it, it is to him that we are indebted for 

 pointing out its characteristics. This is not the place to enter 

 upon a discussion of the reason for considering that our plant is 

 not the R. nemorosus y ferox of Arrhenius, nor the similarly 

 named variety of R. dumetorum of Weihe, nor his R. ferox. My 

 statement that such is the case must be accepted at as much as it 

 is worth until my projected Monograph is publishe'd. 



The Rubi ccesii, as now understood by me, may be shortly dis- 

 tinguished as follows : 



1 . Sepals reflexed from the fruit R. corylifolius. 



Sepals erect, patent, or loosely adpressed 



to the fruit 2. 



2. Basal leaflets incumbent 3. 



Basal leaflets not incumbent 4. 



