296 G. Kmg — Mutet'iah for a Flora of theMiilayan Peninsula. [No. 1, 
shrub ; young brancbea at first pubescent but speedily glabrous, the bark 
dark- coloured and with niinute deflexed prickles. Leaves coriaeeona, 
broadly ovabe, deeply cordate ftt the base^ fcbe apex acute ; the edges 
siuuate and remotely dentate, not lobed ; upper surface smooth, glabrous 
except the pubescent midrib ; under surface pale, aud (except or 4 on 
the midrib) without prickles; the nerves and veins glabraua aud chefit^ 
nut-brown, the areolre rainntely pale-tomentose ; length 3*5-5'5 in., 
breadth 2" 5-3 "5 iu.^ petiole r35-2 in., with a few small prickles, 
Stipules ovate, pinnatilid, deciduous. Fanicles pubescent and with small 
scattered prickles, a few axillary and shorter than or as long as tha 
leaves ; the terminal one mucli longer than tbe leaves (often 15 in. 
long) with distant branches j the flowers mostly clnstered at their 
extremities, aubaessile or shortly pedicel led, "3 in. in diam. CahjiTC-Jnhea 
triangniar, blunt, tawny-fcomentoae. Fruit with numerous red carpelfi. 
DC. Prodr. II, 567 ; Blutne Bijdr. 1112. E. Lohbianm, Hook. Ic. PI. 
t. 741^742. 
Pkbak; Wray 421» 1849; Ki7ig*3 Collector 3465, 5732; Scorlechini 
14G8. DxSTRiB. Sumatra. 
4. RuBUS ROSAEPOLitrs, Smith Ic. Ined. lit, t. 60. A snbscandenfc 
woody shiub; branches, petioles leaf-i'achises and inflorescence with long 
stiJf usually glandular haira, with shorter softer hairs intermixed and a 
few sharp polished hooked spines. Leai'et pinnate, 2-5 in: long ; leaf- 
lets 3-7, membrauous, lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate, nneqaally incised- 
Bet'i'ato, rai^ely with 1 or 2 basatl lobes, the apex aeumiualet the base 
rounded ; upper surface sparsely strigose, the midrib and nerves villous j 
lower snrface less strigose than the upper, minutely reticulate, never 
white or glaucoos ; length of leaflets 1-S in., breadth "35-1 '2 in.; pefciolules 
of the lateral leaflets •l-*2 in., those of the terminal ones '5-1 in. 
SHpuhs linear-lanceolate, acuminate- Flowers '75-1 in. in diani,, on 
pedicels much longer than themselves, solitary or in lax few-flowered 
panicles. Calyx-lohes lanceolate, acuminate, not prickly, woolly or 
glabrous. Petals ueually larger than the calyx-lobes, broadly obovate, 
white. Fruit elongated, rarely subglobose, the nunieroas red carpels on 
a glabrous receptacle. Roxb. Plor, Ind, II, 518; Wall. Cat. 728 ; Kurz 
For. Flora Bi'it. Burra. I. 439 ; Hook. Ic. PI. t. 349 ; Hook. fil. Fl Br. Ind. 
II, 341. B.putnatus, Willd. B. asper, Don Prodr. 234; Wall. Cat. 741. 
Pkrak; at 3900 feet Wray. at 4500 feet, No. 4187. DtSTUiH. Bri- 
tish India, Java. 
6. PvRtJS, Linn. 
Trees or shrubs. Leaves deciduous, simple or pinnate j stipules 
deciduous. Fhmers white red or pink, in terminal cymes or corymbs ; 
bracts subulate or linear. Calyx- tube arceolute turbinate or obconic, 
