pectinated stipules and bractes. The plant seems to have 
been very generally mistaken in our gardens for moluc- 
canus, a very distinct species with aggregated panicles; 
nor is it even the moluccanus of Thunberg’s Flora Japonica, 
as is proved by the prototype sample in the Banksian Herba- 
rium, although that is different from the true moluccanus. 
_ ‘The drawing was taken at Mr. Kent’s at Clapton, where 
it flowered in the hothouse during last autumn, we believe 
for the first time in this country. There are very large 
plants of it in Mr. Lee’s nursery at Hammersmith, but none 
of them have been yet brought to flower. 
A sarmentose shrub growing much in the way of the 
Common Bramble or Blackberry of our hedges, and ex- 
tending its long woolly branches to a great distance. The 
flowers are white and about the size of a sixpence. The 
anthers tile-red. The styles are longer than the sta- 
mens. ‘The leaves in some of the samples were little less 
than nine inches in length; and covered underneath with a 
thick white cottony fur, which in time becomes rusty. or 
reddish. 
The genus belongs to the Cinquefoil section of the 
Rosacece, and is distinguished by the numerous fleshily 
berried seed of the fruit being collected together on the 
outside of a common receptacle into a compound berry, and 
forming the esculent portion, as in the Raspberry and some 
other species. The Strawberry is another genus of the 
same section of the same order; but there the fruit may 
in some sort be called the converse of the Raspberry kind, 
the seeds being dry and fleshless, but the receptacle on 
which they are collected fleshy and succulent, and forming 
the whole of the esculent part of the fruit, as the seeds on 
the contrary do in the Raspberry, where the receptacle is 
dry. 
Rubus is of those genera whose type is pretty nume- 
rously represented in all quarters of the globe. 
