250 
27. EOSACE.E. 
prickles very numerous compressed strongly hooked, declining 
or detiexed from a long base ; lfts. quinate, rarely ternate, sub- 
pedate oval or ovate-oblong acuminate, coarsely doubly-serrate , 
soft and membranous, quite smooth and naked on both sides, 
bright gr., scarcely paler beneath; partial l.-stalks long, the 
2 outer combined at the base; pan. large elongate oblong com- 
pound downwards, its rachis and branches thickly clothed icith 
purple or reddish glandular hairs or setce, with here and there a 
fine small prickle; pedic. and cal. similarly glandular -hairy, 
unarmed ; sep. reflexed ; pet. oborate-oblong obtuse, shortly 
clawed, at least 3 times the length of sep. — Prim. 32. Ii. pedatus 
Sol. MSS. ! ; Buch ! 197. no. 378 (non Sm.). — Shr. per. Mad. 
reg. 3, and upper part of 2, c. Wooded banks and thickets ; 
first ravine W. of the Adlegria above S. Roque near Funchal ; 
Rib. das Caiadas ; Cerca at S. Antonio da Serra ; above the 
Quinta at the Jardim da Serra; in Rib. Frio, Rib. da Metade, 
Serra d’Agoa, Rib. de S. Jorge, and all the principal ravines of 
the North. FI. June-Sept. ; fr. Aug.-Oct. — Altogether vastly 
larger than the common Bramble (It. discolor W. and N.), with 
much longer stouter arching y.-st., often 20 ft. long, rising high 
over the surrounding bushes, magnificent large bright-gr. foliage, 
and immense pan. of large snow-white fl. St. mostly gr. or 
only reddish-purple here and there, the strong vigorous y.-st. 
very stout and thick, much elongated, angular and furrowed 
but not deeply ; all armed on the angles with numerous, rather 
small or slender, deep-red or purple hooked compressed prickles, 
by which they catch and cling tenaciously ; altogether smooth 
and shining, the fi.-st. only towards the pan. becoming sprinkled 
with short red or purple glandular hairs. L. with long smooth 
shining very prickly stalks, bearing 5, or upwards close below 
the pan., 3 or 4 lfts. or even only 1. Lfts. very large, the ter- 
minal one being often 5 or 0 in. long and 3 or 4 broad, the whole 
5 forming a circle often 2 or 3 ft. in circumference ; all on long 
very' prickly stalks, that of the largest terminal 1ft. being from 
1-3 in. long, those of the four or two lateral lfts. shorter, and 
always in the quinate 1. the stalks of the two side-lfts. are more 
or less, sometimes very distinctly, combined at the base ; the 
lfts. a little heart-shaped at the base, and with a finely acu- 
minate point ; of a thin, not at all still’ substance, shining bright 
full gr. on both sides, being scarcely paler beneath, and seldom 
at all dark above, quite smooth and naked on both sides, but 
with several small fine prickles on the midrib beneath, and with 
the cancellating cross-veinlets of the under surface obsolete in- 
distinct irregular remote and inconspicuous; the edges coarsely 
but distinctly doubly-serrate, the serratures altogether larger 
and freer than in Jt. discolor. Slip, leafy stalked narrow lan- 
ceolate finely acuminate erect or erecto-patent, mostly quite 
entire, rarely remotely toothed, seated at the base of the leaf- 
