Pygcum.'] 



38. ROSACEA. 



157 



capitate ; ovules 2, collateral, pendulous. Fruit a trausversely 

 oblong drupe. Cotyledons very thick^ hemispheric. 



Leaf basal glands 2, large, Petals 5-6 tomentose. Ovary glabrous . 1. P. WiyMianum, 

 Leaf basal glands 0, Petals 0. Ovary hirsute ... ... 2. P. Gardneri. 



, 1. P. -WigMianum, Bl. Melanges Bot. 1855. Av. 2 (ex Walp. Ann. 17. 

 642) ; Fl. Br. I. 2. 319. P. ceylanicum, Bedd. Fl. Sylv. t. 59. excl. synon. 



Sugnigari, K. 



Western Peninsula, A.namallays, Palneys and Tinnevelly ranges. 



Common on the southern ghats of North K^nara^ in evergreen forests • 

 Fl. Nov. Dec. Fr. H. S. 



Branches glabrous, lenticellate. Racemes short ; flowers bracteolate. 

 Leaves with or without the basal glands_, and differ in shape from Wight's 

 Ic. t. 256, but agree with Ic. t. 993, which is P. Gardneri. The two 

 species are closely allied. 



2. P. Gardneri, Hook. f. Fl. Br. I. 2, 321. P. zeylanicum, Dalz. & 

 Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 891. Dacca, kaula, Vern. Western Peninsula, Nilgher- 

 ries, ghats of Bombay, Konkan ghats (Mahabdleshvar, Munohur and 

 Parwar), Dalz. 



Specimens of this tree (in fruit) from Mahabaleshwar have the leaves 

 very like those of P, WigMianum, with basal glands. Fr. 0. S. 



2. RUBUS, Linn. 



Prickly, trailing shrubs or creeping herbs. Leaves alternate, 

 simple or compound ; stipules adnate to petiole. Flowers usually 

 in terminal or axillary panicles. Calyx cleft into 5 persistent lobes. 

 Petals 5. Stamens numerous. Disk coating the broad calyx-tube. 

 Carpels many, on a convex receptacle; ovules 2, collateral^ pen- 

 dulous. Drupes many 1-seeded, crowded upon a dry or spongy, 

 receptacle. 



Leaves simple, palmately lobed ... ,,, 1, i2. moluccanus. 



Leaves trifoliate. A suberect bush ... ... 2. R. ellipticus. 



Leaves 5-9-foliate ... ... ... 3. E. lasiocarpus, 



1. R. moluccanus, Linn. ; DO. Prod. IL 666 ; Fl. Br. I. 2. 330. 

 E. rugosus, Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 89. 



Central and Eastern tropical and temperate Himalaya, Eastern and 

 Western Peninsulas, Ceylon, 



Along the higher ghats from Mahabaleshvar southwards ; also on the 

 Nilkund and southern ghats of North Kanara at 1800 to 2000 ft. 

 elevation. FJ. & Fr. C. & R. S. 



2. R. ellipticus, Smith in Rees' Cyclop. XXX., Rubus 16 ; Fl. Br. I. 

 2. 336. B. flavus, Brandis For. Fl. 197. B, WallicUanus, Dalz. & Gibs. 

 Bomb. Fl. 89. 



Temperate and sub-tropical Himalaya, Khasia mountains, Burma, 

 Western Peninsula and Ceylon, From Mababalesbvar southwards along 



