104 bosacEjE. \Fygeum. 



of a single cai-pel, with 3 pendulous ovules. Fruit a drupe with little or no 

 juice, usually as broad as or broader than long, with a smooth kernel, contain- 

 ing a single seed. — Trees. Leaves simple, entii-e, coriaceous. Stipules small, 

 very deciduous. Flowers in axillary or lateral simple racemes. 



A small genus, limited to tropical Asia, and scarcely differing from Prunus, except in the 

 small size of the petals, which has occasioned them frequently to be described as additional 

 calyx-teeth. 



1. P. latifoliiim, Miq. M. Ned. Ind. i. 361. A tree, with the young 

 branches slightly pubescent, but soon glabrous. Leaves stalked, ovate or oval- 

 oblong, acuminate or acute, 3 to 5 in. long, glabrous, except sometimes a 

 slight rusty down on the principal veins underneath, the petiole usually more 

 downy. Kacemes solitaiy or clustered, 1 to 2 in. long, more or less pubes- 

 cent. Mowers white, scarcely 3 lines diameter, on pedicels of 1 to 2 lines 

 long. Petals 5, hairy outside as well as the calyx, and scarcely longer than 

 its teeth. Stamens about 25. Ovary glabrous, with a rather long style. — 

 Qermaria latifoUa, Presl, Epimel. Bot. 221. 



Hongkong, Wright. Also in the Philippine Islands and the.Indian Archipelago. It is 

 near the North Indian F. acuminaiwm., but readily known by the pubescent racemes, the 

 shorter hairy petals, etc. The P. parviflorum from the Indian Archipelago differs in its 

 smaller sessile flowers, in densely clustered racemes, hairy ovary, etc. 



2. RUBUS, Linn. 



Calyx free, deeply B-lobed, persistent. Petals 5. Stamens numerous. Car- 

 pels numerous,. with a single pendulous ovule in each. Pruit a kind of gra- 

 nulated berry, formed by the union of the succulent carpels, round the conical 

 or shortly oblong, di-y receptacle. — Weak scrambling shrubs (or in some 

 northern species, herbs), usually prickly. Leaves pinnately or palmately di- 

 vided into distinct segments or leaflets, or rarely simply lobed. Plowers 

 axillary, or in terminal leafy panicles. 



A large genus, widely distributed over almost every part of the globe. 



Leaves simply lobed, wriniled above, densely tomentose underneath . . 1. R. reflexus. 



Leaves pinnate, with 3 leaflets. 



Branches pubescent. Leaflets white, tomentose underneath . . 2. 2J. fanifolma 



"Whole plant quite glabrous • i. P. leucanthm. 



1. R. reflexus, Bot. Reg. <. 461. Branches and petioles terete, densely 

 clothed with a brown or rust-coloured velvety down, almost concealing the 

 minute prickles. Leaves simple, cordate-ovate or nearly orbicular, usually 

 deeply 3- or 5-lobed, the middle lobe much longer than the others, wrinkled 

 and nearly glabrous on the upper side, densely tomentose underneath. Plowers 

 3 or 3 together, almost sessile in the upper axils, or sometimes several crowded 

 f i^OYihmcyts. Bracts very haiiy, deeply divided into naiTow lobes, but 

 faUmg off early. Calyx-lobes about 4 lines long, very haii-y outside. Petals 

 white, not much longer. Pruit nearly globular. 



Very common in the island. Champion and others. Extends from north-eastern India 

 to the Archipeago, the Phihppmes, and northwai-d to Loochoo; for sm-ely many of the 

 specimens usually referred to R. rugosm, have all the characters of the present species 

 Whether, those which have more uumerous and smaller flowers, and entire or nearly entfre 

 biacts, are specifically dislmct or not, is uncertain. If united, the P ruoosu, is iL ij 

 name; unless indeed the whole be considered as varieties oHUul^LriZCcanuf"' 



