EuBUS.] ROSACEA. 325 



adnate to the petiole. Flowers in terminal and axillary corymbose 

 panicles, rarely solitary, white or red. Calyx-tuhe broad ; lobes 5, 

 persistent, tetals b. ^ Stamens ^.2J1j. l^i^^ coating the calyx-tube. 

 Carpels many, on a convex receptacle ; style subterminal ; ovules 2, 

 collateral, pendulous. Drupes many, 1-seeded, crowded upon a dry or 

 spoDgy conical or cylindiic receptacle. Seed pendulous.— Species 

 about 200, chiefly in the N. Hemisphere. 



Leaves 3-foliolate, petals white, fruit 



yellow . . . . • , 1. B. elUpticus. 



Leaves 5-9-foliolate, petals pink, fruit 



"black 2. R. lasiocarpiis. 



l.R.eUipticus, iS/mf/i; Brand. For. Fl. 197 ; F. B. I. ii, 336; Watt 

 E. D. E. rotundifolius, Wall. ; Boyle III. 203. B. Gowreephul, Boxh. Fl. 

 Ind.vi,51T; W. 4- A. Prod. 293. E. flavus, Buch.-Ham. in. Don Prod. 

 234 ; Brand. For. Fl. i97.-Vern. Zard-anchu. 



A large shrub, with stout trailing branches armed with scattered hooked 

 prickles and densely shaggy with long reddish bristles. Leaves 3-folio- 

 late, those at the base of the hranchlets sometimes 1-f oliolate ; petioles 

 1-3 in.; stipules suhulate ; leaflets 2-i in. long, orbicular obovate or 

 elliptic, ohtuse or abruptly acute, toothed, dark-green above, pale and 

 more or less tomentose beneath. Panicles axillary and terminal, dense- 

 fid. ; pedicels short, bracts setaceous. Floicers t-% in. across. Calyx 

 densely pubescent, sometimes bristly ; lobes ovate, acute or mucronate, 

 erect in fruit. PefaZs exceeding the calyx, obovate, white. Stamens 1- 

 seriate. Carpels silky. Fruit globose, exposed ; drupes many, on a 

 cylindric hairy receptacle, golden-yellow, succulent ; stone rugose. 



Dehra Dun and on the Siwalik range, Distrtb. Abundant on the_W. 

 Himalaya up to 7,0U0 ft., eastward to Sikkim, Bhutan, the Khasia Hills, 

 Burma and Yunan, and on the W. Ghats from Kanara south to Ceylon. 

 Flowers during February and March, and the fruit ripens in April and 

 May. The fruit is much eaten, either raw or as a preserve. 



2. R. lasiocarpus, 8mith in Bees Cycl. XXX. '\-6 ; W. ^ A. Prod. 299; 

 Boyle ill. 203; D. 4- G. Bomh. Fl. 89 ; Brand. For. Fl. 193 ; F.B.I.ii, 

 839; Watt E. D. R. albescens, Boxh. ; Fl. Ind. ii, 519. E. rosaefolius, 

 Boxh. I.e. E. rotundifolius, Boyle l.c.--Vern. Kali ancUhi. 



A large shrub with long spreading stems often rooting at the ends, 

 armed with straight or curved prickles. Branches pruinose, glabrous, 

 purple under the bloom, rarely glandular. Leasees 5-9 foliolate, 3-10 in, 

 long: stipules 5 in., linear-subulate; leaflets 1-3 in., ovate-elliptic or 

 ovate-lanceolate, acutely and often doubly toothed, glabrous or silky 

 above, densely wbite-tomentose beneath, the terminal one often lobed; 

 lateral nerves straight, very prominent beneath. Flon-ers i-| in. across, 

 in small axillary and terminal simple or subpanicled tomentose corymbs. 

 Calyx densely woolly, lobes ovate or ovate-acuminate. Petals orbicular 



