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1. G-RANGERIA, Comm. 
Flowers hermaphrodite. Calyx-tube short, turbinate ; teeth 5, oh’ 
long, obtuse, imbricated. Petals 5, round, inserted at the throat of the 
calyx, minute, caducous. Stamens 15, inserted in a regular ring with 
the petals at the throat of the calyx ; filaments filiform ; anthers round, 
minute. Ovary immersed in the tube, woolly, one-celied ; style short, 
basilar, glabrous. Drupe trigonous, nearly dry, with a bony endocarp, 
woolly inside, 1-seeded. The only species. 
1. G. borbonica, Lam. ; DC. Prod. ii. 527. A much-branched 
glabrous shrub, 10-15 feet high. Leaves crowded, alternate, nearly 
sessile, obtuse, entire, coriaceous, shining, 1-2 in. long. Eacemes 1-2 
in. long, dense, copious, short-peduncled, axillary, or forming a terminal 
panicle ; pedicels downy, erecto-patent, exceeding the calyx, with a 
minute linear persistent bract at the base. Calyx in. long, downy, 
coriaceous; sepals reflexed, persistent, exceeding the tube. Ring 
of stamens erect, longer than the sepals, persisting round the 
minute white ovary. Drupe turbinate, \ in. long. G. buxifolia, 
Smith. 
Mauritius, universal in woods. Also Bourbon. Faux Buis. 
* RUBUS, Linn. 
Calyx cleft nearly to the base into 5 acute teeth. Petals 5, obovate- 
unguiculate, inserted at the throat of the calyx. Stamens indefinite, 
inserted with the petals ; filaments filiform ; anthers minute. Carpels 
numerous, crowded on a prominent torus, with 2 pendulous ovules ; 
style subterminal. Fruit a drupel, with a single bony seed. — Prickly 
shrubs, with simple or compound leaves and panicled flowers. 
Distrib. One of the most cosmopolitan of genera; but none of 
the species are truly wild within our limits. Species 100-200. 
Leaves simple * R. moluccanus. 
Leaves digitately compound * R. Bergii. 
Leaves pinnately compound * E. rosa3folius. 
* R. moluccanus , Linn.; DC. Prod. ii. 566 (R.rugosus,$m^; R.H'amil- 
tonianus, Seringe ), very common in Tropical Asia, is established in 
Mauritius at Moka. It is a sarmentose shrub, with densely pilose 
branches, minute hooked prickles, deeply cordate large rugose 5-lobed 
minutely toothed leaves densely matted with whitish tomentum be- 
neath, a dense panicle with distant lower branches in the axils of the 
leaves, acute very silky permanently ascending sepals \ inch long, 
broad included petals and a dense rounded head of numerous minute 
drupels. Framboisier de Java. 
* R. Bergii , Eckl. and Zeyh. (R. fruticosus, var. Bergii, Cham. and 
Schlecht.; Rarv. and Sond. FI. Cap. ii. 228), the common bramble of 
the Cape (mistaken by Bojer, Hort. Maur. 127, for the European 
