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RUBUS reflexus. 
Canton Bramble. 
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ICOSANDRIA POLYGYNIA. 
Nat, ord. Rosacem. Jussieu gen. 334. Div. IV. Germina plura inde- 
finita, veré supera, receptaculo communi imposita, singula monostyla. 
Semina totidem nuda aut rarids baccata. Herbe aut rarids frutices. Po- 
TENTILLE. 
RUBUS. Cal. patens, 5-fidus. Pet. 5. Stam. numerosa_brevia. 
Sem. numerosa baccata, supra receptaculum commune densé collecta in 
baccam compositam. FFrutices aculeati vel quanddque inermes, rarits herbe 
semper inermes, fol. simplicia aut ternata aut digitata, aut pinnata in RuBis 
quibusdam Commersonianis habiti similibus Rosm; flores terminales aut et _ 
rarius axillares, racemoso-paniculati aut rariis solitarii, in R. odorato 
corymbosi et abortu dioici. R.Chamemorus sub terré monoicus et extas 
dioicus, radictbus maris et femine junctis, caulibus distinctis, observante 
post Solandrum Linneo. Juss. |. c. 338. 
Div. Frutescentes. 
R. reflexus, ramis teretibus, foliis oblongis cordatis lobatis lobo antico maximo 
ovato-elongato acuminato, inferné subcruciato-repandis, stipulis bracteis- 
que pectinatis, paniculis solitariis axillaribus paucifloris brevioribus pctiolo, 
reflexis. 
Rubus moluceanus. <Aiton’s Epitome 373? Sweet hort. sub. (non alio- 
rum). 
Frutex sarmentosus, exceptis corolla facieque supind foliorum, undique 
tomentosus ; ramis longissimis petiolis pedunculisque lanato-tomentosis, aculeis 
reversis fulvis armatis. Vol. palmaria ad dodrantalia, transverse 4 angustiora 
vel circitér, serrata, d supino virentia tessellato-rugosa nudiuscula ad nervos 
pilosiuscula, ad prono tomentoso-albicantia reticulato-venosa, vetustiora ad 
nervos venasque ferruyineo-fulvescentia, inferné subcruciato-quadriloba lobis 
2 inferioribus obtusissimis inferiis ad latus sint, brevi excisis: petiolus triplo 
brevior lamina: stipule oblong breviores petiolo, bractcis membranaceis ro- 
tundo-ovatis longiores atque profundiis incise. Panicule lanate reflexe. 
Cor. alba, calyce subequilonga? petalis obovatis, Anthera lateritio-rubentes. 
Styli dongiores staminibus. 
Samples of this species were gathered by Sir George 
Staunton in the province of Canton, China, and deposited 
in the herbariums of Sir Joseph Banks and Mr. Lambert. 
When the plant was introduced we have not learned. It is 
not recorded in the last edition of the Hortus Kewensis. 
The species borders upon alcewfolius of Lamarck as well 
as upon rugosus of Sir James Smith in Rees’s Cyclopedia, 
but differs from both by leaves with an elongated middle 
lobe and by reflected panicles; specially from the first in 
not having angular branches, from the second by its 
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