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XLIV. ROSACEA. 
[Pygeum. 
above on one side and below on the other, or with a gland below the second pair 
of nerves, oval, dark-coloured. Racemes numerous, lateral, 1 or 2in. long, 
slender, and softly ferruginous tomentose flowers, male, nearly sessile ; calyx- 
tube -widely campanulate, about 2 lines diameter, glabrous, and probably purplish 
inside, except for a tuft of ferruginous hairs in place of ovary ; lobes about 12, 
narrow, very hairy, the hairs longer at the apex, nearly as long as the tube. 
Stamens between 30 and 40, filaments coloured, glabrous, a little longer or about 
as long as the lobes of calyx. Anthers oblong. Female flowers wanting. Drupe 
with a rich plum coloured pericarp, transversely slightly exceeding lin. in diameter ; 
the putamen bluntly cordate and much compressed, nearly lin. broad, light-brown, 
marked with prominent arching, branched hard ribs, reticulate between them. 
Hab.: Bellenden Ker, Christie Palmerston and A. Meston (seeds only); flower and fruiting 
specimens, Barron River, E. Coiclcy ; Evelyn, near Herberton, J. F. Bailey. 
Wood of a red colour in the centre, nicely marked, easy to work; useful for turnery and 
cabinet-work. — Bailey's Cat. Ql. TCoods No. 150a. 
4. RUBUS, Linn. 
(Fruit of some species red.) 
Calyx-tube short, open ; lobes 5, imbricate, without external accessory ones. 
Petals 5, erect or spreading. Stamens indefinite. Carpels indefinite, with 2 
pendulous ovules in each, one of them smaller and abortive ; styles terminal. 
Fruit a head of succulent carpels, forming a kind of granulated berry round the 
conical or shortly oblong dry or spongy receptacle. — Weak scrambling shrubs or 
rarely prostrate and almost herbaceous, usually prickly. Leaves pinnately or 
palmately divided into distinct segments or leaflets or lobed only, the lobes or 
segments toothed. Flowers axillary or in terminal leafy panicles. 
A considerable genus, dispersed over most parts of the globe. 
Prickly shrubs, scrambling, climbing, or almost erect. Flowers pink or white. 
Leaves broad, toothed or lobed, rusty underneath 1. JR. moluccanus. 
Leaves pinnate, with 3 or 5 leaflets, white-tomentose underneath. Fruit 
with few large carpels 2. R. parvifolius. 
Leaves pinnate, with 5 or 7 leaflets, green on both sides. Fruit with 
numerous small carpels 3. R. roscefolius. 
Glabrous. Leaflets 3 to 9. Bracts laciniate 4. B. Muelleri. 
Leaves digitate, with 5 leaflets on long petiolules 5. R. Moorei. 
1. It. moluccanus (of the Moluccas), Linn.; DC. Prod. ii. 566 ; Bentli. FI. 
Austr. ii. 430. A tall scrambling shrub ; branches and petioles terete, clothed 
with a short rusty or white woolly down, often mixed with longer hairs, and 
armed with numerous small recurved prickles. Leaves usually broadly ovate- 
cordate, toothed, shortly and broadly 3 or 5-lobed, 2 to 4in. long, occasionally 
deeply 3-lobed but not quite to the midrib, green, somewhat rugose and glabrous 
or sprinkled with a few hairs above, rusty or whitish-tomentose underneath, the 
principal veins more villous and often armed with prickles. Flowers red, irregu- 
larly clustered in short panicles in the upper axils, the upper ones forming a 
terminal panicle, usually very silky-villous. Bracts deeply cut, very deciduous. 
Pedicels usually short when in flower, longer in fruit. Calyx-lobes acuminate, 4 
or 5 lines long. Fruit nearly globular, glabrous, scarcely exceeding the calyx- 
lobes, red, insipid or slightly acid. — B. Hillii, F. v. M. in Trans. Phil. Inst. 
Viet. iii. 67, and Fragm. iv. 31. 
Hab.: Common in coastal scrubs, north and south. 
The species extends over the Indian Archipelago to the Philippines, and the closely allied B. 
rugosus, Sm., and R. reflexus, Bot. Reg., to E. India and China. The majority of the Australian 
specimens belong to a form precisely the same as one common in the Archipelago, which appears 
to be that originally described by Rumphius. — Bentli. 
The leaves of this bramble are frequently infested with that curious blight fungus Hamaspora 
longissima, Korn. 
