506 PHANEROGAMIA. 



stems and ascending flowering branches, armed with weak and slender 

 prickles, apparently suffruticose. Stipules subulate, rather large, 

 sometimes almost setaceous. Gauline leaves trifoliolate, or those of 

 the short flower-bearing branches simple and three-lobed. Leaflets 

 rotund or ovate, either obtuse or acute, 1} 'to 2 inches long, thickly 

 doubly toothed (the teeth mucronate and short), often incised or obscurely 

 lobed, rather coriaceous in texture, canescently tomentose-pubescent under- 

 neath, glabrate above; the lateral ones slightly, the terminal manifestly, 

 petiolulate, or sometimes almost sessile. Peduncles one-flowered, usually 

 axillary, setose-prickly, apparently recurved after anthesis, an inch to 

 2 inches long, the lower ones shorter than the leaves. Flowers large, 

 fully an inch in diameter. Calyx five-parted almost to the base, 

 tomentose-pubescent, not armed nor glandular; the sepjals oblong, 

 acute or sometimes obtuse, or the innermost pointed, rather foliaceous, 

 becoming three-quarters of an inch long after flowering, the edges 

 strongly serrate or laciniate-toothed from the middle to the apex. 

 Petals obovate, often deeply notched at the apex, apparently white (the 

 colour not recorded by the collectors), as long as the calyx. Stamens 

 and pistils numerous. Ovaries hirsute, especially towards the summit, 

 with soft and glandless hairs, which persist on the ovoid unripe fruit. 



This species is remarkable for the serrated sepals; a character 

 which, although variable in degree, is presented by all the specimens 

 seen. The petals are all imperfect in our flowering specimens. They 

 are restored in the plate from a flower of a plant which was gathered 

 long ago by Mr. Macrae. The flowering branch represented in the 

 left-hand figure is also from one of his specimens. 



Plate 57. — Rubus Macmi: a procumbent stem and flowering 

 branches, of the natural size. Fig. 1. A petal. 2. Vertical section 

 through the receptacle, &c. 3. A pistil— The details magnified. 



12. CHAMtEMELES, Lindl. 

 1. Cham^emeles coriacea, Lindl. 



Chamcemehs coriacea, Lindl. in Trans. Linn. Soc. 13, p. 104, t. 11 • DC. Prodr. 



