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XLVI. ROSACEA 



[Eubiis 



stamens purple. 6. R. ferox, "Wall. Nepal, Khasi hills. Upper Burma. Eoughly 

 tomentose, not white or buif coloured, prickles stout, numerous on branchlets, petioles 

 and nerves, 1. more or less lobed. Panicles lax, ramifications slender, calyx-lobes pec- 

 tmately toothed, teeth linear. 



B. Leaves deeply lobed, as broad as long, or broader than long. 



7. R. moluccanus, Linn. ; Kurz F. Fl. i. 437.— Syn. E. rugosiis, Smiths- 

 Wight Ic. t. 225. B. Hamiltonianus, Wall. PL As. Ear. t. 234. (E. 

 rugosus in text.) 



A large straggling shrub, branches, petioles and underside of leaves densely 

 clothed with soft woolly rust-coloured tomentum, branches and petioles armed 

 with numerous small prickles, leaves deeply cordate, 3-5-lobed, upperside more 

 or less wrinkled, stipules laciniate or pinnatifid. Fl. white, in dense axillary 



Fig. 122. — Rubus moluccanus, Linn. |. 



racemes or" clusters, the upper ones usually forming a terminal silky- tomentose 

 panicle, calyx entire or pectinate-dentate. Fr. bright red, glabrous, slightly 

 acid. 



Himalaya from Nepal eastwards, ascending to 7,000 ft., Khasi hills. Hills of Burma 

 above 3,000 ft. Western Ghats from Mahableshwar southwards. Fl. Feb.-Aug.— 

 Ceylon, moist country, above 1,000 ft. Malay Peninsula and Archipelago. 8. R. 

 reticulatus, Wall., Himalaya, Kumaon to Sikkim, 7-10,000 ft., closely allied to 7 and 

 perhaps not specifically distinct, branchlets and 1. grey tomentose beneath, fr. very 

 large. 9. R. lanatus, Wall. Kumaon, Nepal, 5-8,000 ft., inflorescence with glandular 

 hairs, branches and underside of leaves white-cottony. 10. R. birmanicus, Hook, f., 

 Patkai range. Manipur. Branchlets, petioles and underside of 1. densely clothed with 

 long soft hairs and numerous stout recurved prickles, 1. greyish-brown beneath, stipules 

 and bracts ^-f in. long, deeply pinnatifid, segments long, filiform. 11. R. Treutleri, 

 Hook, f., Sikkim 7-10,000 ft., branchlets, petioles and 1. on both sides densely clothed 

 with long soft hairs, mixed here and there with glandular bristles, prickles slender, 

 passing into bristles, fl. |-1 in. across, calyx-lobes large, laciniate or pinnatifid. Carpels 

 numerous, dry. 



C. Leaves digitately 3-5-foliolate. 



