Pygeurn.] xlviii. rosacea. 677 
through, black. Hab. Local, on high mountains. Malacca, Mt. 
Ophir at 4000 ft. altitude (Griffith, Hullett, Ridley). 
(13) P. ovalifolium King, l.c. 292. 
Small tree 15 to 20 ft. tall. Leaves stiffly coriaceous, oval 
blunt emarginate, base round, above glabrous, midrib rusty- 
tomentose on both sides; nerves 7 to 8 pairs, fine, red-hairy, 
175 to 2-15 in. long, 1 to 1-15 in. wide; petioles *3 to -4 in. long. 
Racemes stout, axillary, 3 to 5 in. long, few-flowered, tomentose. 
Flowers *2 in. long, sessile, brown-tomentose. Calyx-tube cam- 
panulate, teeth oblong, blunt xo. Petals o. Stamens 30 to 40, 
glabrous, exsert. Pistil shorter. Ovary silky. Fruit sub-globose, 
apiculate, grooved, *35 in. through. Hab. Mountains 4800 to 
5300 ft. altitude. Perak, Gunong Bubu (Kunstler). 
(14) P. rubiginosum Ridl. Journ. F.M.S. Mns. vi. 143. 
Small bushy tree. Leaves ovate acuminate, base round, 
glabrous except midrib, sparingly hairy beneath; nerves 6 to 7 
pairs, midrib and edge red-hairy, 1*5 in. long, 75 in. vide; petioles 
•3 in. long, rufous-hairy. Racemes dense, '4 in. long. Bracts 
oblong-ovate, red-hairy. Pedicels very short. Calyx *12 in. long, 
red-hairy, lobes 10. Petals o. Stamens red glabrous. Hab. 
Local, in high mountains in small woods. Pahang, Gunong Tahan 
open country at 5000 to 6000 ft. altitude (Ridley). 
6. RUBUS, Linn. 
Sarmentose thorny shrubs. Leaves alternate, simple rarely 
compound ; stipules conspicuous. Flowers in terminal and axillary 
panicles, rarely solitary, white or pink. Calyx-tube broad, lobes 
5 persistent. Petals 5. Stamens very numerous. Disc lining 
the calyx-tube. Carpels drupaceous on a convex receptacle, 
i-seeded. Abundant in north temperate zone, rarer in the south. 
Species about 200. 
Leaves simple. 
Flowers *5 in. wide; calyx woolly; leaves large . (1) R. alceasfolius 
Flowers ‘4 in. or less wide; calyx tomentose; 
leaves buff tomentose beneath . . . . (2) R. angulosus 
Flowers about -4 in., lax panicle; calyx silky; 
leaves ovate hardly lobed . . . . . (3) R. glomeratus 
Flowers a little smaller; panicle more lax; leaves 
hardly tomentose beneath . . . (4) R. Hasskarli 
Flowers small; calyx pale velvety; leaves as in 
glomeratus , but white-scurfy beneath . . (5) R. elongatus 
Leaves pinnate . . . . . . . (6) R. rossefolius 
(1) R. alceaefolius Pair. Encycl. Method. Bot. vi. 247; Focke, 
Bibl. Bot. 17, p. 78. 
A robust bramble. Stem velvety, thorns large, dark. Leaves 
5-lobed, cordate denticulate bullate with strigose hairs above, 
yellowish tomentose, back of leaf whitish, velvety; midrib thorny, 
6 in. long and wide, or less; petioles 1*5 to 2*5 in. long, velvety 
