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numerous strong hooked prickles ; pedic. and cal. closely tomen- 
tose naked unarmed, sep. reflexed ; pet. roundish-obovate clawed 
twice the length of sep. — Weihe and Nees Rub. Germ. t. 20; 
Bab. (ed. 4) 99. R. fruticosus L., Desf. i. 401 (var.) ; Brot. ii. 
347; EB. t. 715; Bucli 197. no. 377; Hook. FI. Sc. i. 160; 
Sm. E. FI. ii. 399; Bab. (ed. 1.) 94; Hook. E. FI. (ed. 5) 96; 
Seub. FI. Azor. 48. no. 355. R. fruticosus a. major WB. ii. 15. 
R. fruticosus 1, Koch 233. — Slir. per. Mad. reg. 1, 2, 3, ccc ; 
PS. reg. 1, rrr ; GD. reg. 2, rr. — In Mad. everywhere below 
4000 ft., and forming the ordinary fences to vineyards, fields, 
cottage gardens, &c. ; in PS. only near the large tank or foun- 
tain at the W. end of the town, forming a hedge in a lane 
leading northwards ; in GD. up the central valley here and 
there on the mountains. FI. March-Sept ; fr. July-Oct. — St. 
unless supported nearly or quite prostrate all their length, root- 
ing and then arching only towards their end ; otherwise (as in 
hedges) 5-8 ft. high, numerous, shooting up successively year 
after year from the rootstock; dark-reddish-purple, naked or 
without glands and setae, and appearing smooth but meally or 
powdery, as if mouldy, from the very minute short close-pressed 
stellate hairs ; clinging tenaciously by the very sharp and nu- 
merous large compressed strong and rigid prickles with which 
the whole pi., except the ped. and cal., is beset. Efts, stalked, 
distinct, not laterally imbricate, dark shining gr. and smooth 
above, strikingly white and covered with a close hard glazy 
stellate-downy coat beneath, but not otherwise hairy, except 
that the downy coat is somewhat looser or freer on the mam 
ribs ; all oblong more or less, and of a stiff dry substance, with 
finely serrate full or plaited often deflexed edges, the terminal 
or middle 1ft, largest and longest, abruptly acuminate with the 
point bent downwards or decurved, 2-3 in. long and 1|-1^ 
broad. Cancellating or reticulating cross-veinlets on the under 
surface of the lfts. very regular distinct and prominent. St ip. 
seated a little way up the petiole above the axils, long linear- 
subulate erect. Pan. prickly leafless, in fr. elongate cylindric. 
FI. about the size of a shilling or nearly an inch in diam., uni- 
formly in Mad. as in the Canaries different shades of lilac-rose 
or pink, varying much in intensity from deep full pink to the 
faintest blush, but never white. Pet. obovate, attenuated at 
the base. Sep. cottony-w., reflexed in fl. and fr. Fr. shining 
black, of many grains or drupes, juicy and sweet. 
Luxuriant pi., growing in moist or shady spots, have some- 
times the hard close tomentum beneath the lfts. greenish and in- 
conspicuous, though still discernible with a good lens ; and the 
lfts. are less coriaceous and not discolorous, or dark gr. above 
and white beneath. 
The Portuguese have a prejudice against the fr. ( Amoras 
