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XLIV. ROSACEA. 
[ilubils. 
villous underneath. Flowers white, unisexual or polygamous, in loose axillary 
racemes or raceme-like panicles. Bracts small, entire. Calyx pubescent, very 
spreading, the segments ovate or oblong, obtuse, 2 to 3 lines long. Fruit said 
to be dark-red and insipid. 
Hab.: Tallebudgera Creek, Rev. B. Scortechini. 
The nearest affinity of this species is with the New Zealand R. australis, Forst., but the leaves 
of the latter species, although protean in their forms, never quite resemble those of R. Moorei ; 
the flowers are much smaller and very much more numerous, in large panicles, &c. — Benth. 
5. *FRAGARIA, Linn. 
(Fruit fragrant.) 
Calyx persistent, with 5 bracteoles at its base ; lobes 5, valvate in the bud- 
Petals 5. Stamens many, persistent. Carpels many, on a convex receptacle ; 
styles ventral, persistent ; ovule 1, ascending. Achenes many, minute, sunk in 
the surface of a large fleshy receptacle. Perennial scapigerous herbs, with 
creeping stolons. Leaves digitately 3, rarely 5, foliolate, very rarely pinnate or 
simple. Stipules adnate to the petiole. Flowers white or yellow, often 
polygamous. 
1. F. indica (Indian), Andr. Bot. Rep. t. 479 ; Rook. FI. Brit. Ind. ii. 343. 
Indian Strawberry. A more or less silky-hairy plant. Rootstock stout, with 
many long, slender prostrate stems. Leaves distant ; leaflets 3 to 5, rarely 5, 
1 to l^in. diameter, petiolulate or sessile ; membranous, simply or doubly crenate, 
or toothed, or serrate ; base cuneate, entire ; nerves parallel. Petiole 1 to 5in. 
long, very slender. Stipules leafy, toothed. Peduncles very slender, equalling 
the petioles, naked. Flowers J to lin. diameter. Calyx-lobes ovate or lanceolate ; 
bracteoles narrow or broad, often greatly exceeding the calyx-lobes, rarely quite 
entire. Petals obovate, cordate, yellow. Fruit spherical or oblong, bright red, 
spongy, insipid ; achenes minute, obscurely pitted. — Hook. l.c. 
This Indian plant has in some localities strayed from garden culture into adjoining pastures. 
The leaves are often discoloured with the fungus Phyllosticta fragaricola, Desm., or P. 
fragaria, Cooke. 
6. ACyENA, Linn. 
(From akaina, a spine ; spinous calyxes.) 
(Ancistrum, Forst.) 
Calyx-tube ovoid or campanulate ; lobes usually 4 or 5, but varying from 3 to 
7, valvate. Petals none. Stamens 2 to 10. Carpels 1 or rarely 2, enclosed in 
the calyx-tube, with 1 pendulous ovule in each ; style terminal or nearly so, 
protruding from the calyx-tube, usually dilated into an oblique fringed stigma. 
Achene solitary, dry, enclosed in the hardened tube of the calyx, which is usually 
closed at the top and more or less awned with subulate or conical spines, often 
glochidiate at the end. — Herbs, with a perennial tufted stock. Leaves radical or 
alternate, pinnate, with toothed or cut leaflets. Stipules sheathing at the base. 
Flowers hermaphrodite or polygamous, small, green or purplish, in a terminal 
globular head, or in an elongated or interrupted spike, the flowering-stem either 
leafy or reduced to a leafless scape. 
The genus is dispersed over the temperate and colder regions of the southern hemisphere ; it 
is especially abundant in S. America, and occurs also in California, Mexico, and the Sandwich 
Islands. The following Australian species are apparently also natives of S. America and New 
Zealand. 
The genus has been divided into two sections — Fuaccena, with the fruiting calyx moqe or less 
angular, the spines, when present, one only to each angle ; and Ancistrum, with the calyx ovoid, 
irregularly covered with numerous spikes or tubercles. In the former, the flowers are usually 
