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RUBUS parvifolius. 
Crimson-flowered Chinese Bramble. 
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ICOSANDRIA POLYGYNIA. 
Nat. ord. RosacEm. Jussieu gen, 334. Div. IV. Germina plura in- 
definita vere supera, receptaculo communi imposita, singula monostyla. Se- 
mina totidem nuda aut rarids baccata. Herbe aut rarius frutices. PoTEn- 
TILLE. 
RUBUS. Supra fol. 461. 
Div. Frutescentes. 
R. parvifolius, foliis ternatis (quinatisque) subtis tomentosis, caule (pedun- 
culis) petiolisque aculeis recurvis. Lin. sp. pl. ed. 2. 1. 707; (exel. syn. 
Rumph.) 
Rubus parvifolius. Willd. sp. pl. 2.1083. Smith in Rees’s cyclop. in loc. n. 
' 21; (non tamen quoad plantam Nepulensem D. Buchanani ibi pro eddem 
habitam). : 
Rubus triphyllus. Thunb. jap. 215. Willd. sp. pl. 2. 1082. Smith in Rees’s 
cyclop. in loc. n. 13. 
Suffrutex humilis ramosissimus; rami aculeati erecti flexuosi teretes vil- 
loso-canescentes, aculeis rubidis recurvis sparsis distantibus. Fol. petiolato- 
ternata v. sepe quinata, supra glabra, infra tomentoso-candicantia, foliola 
semuncialia ad uncialia obovato-rotunda inciso-dentata inferne cuneata atque 
integra nervo medio subius roseo-aculeolato, lateralia sessilia v. brevissime 
stipitata, supertora 2 (in quinatis) cuneato-angusta, terminale in ternatis 
majus trilobo-incisum, im quinatis (ubi lobi in jplals totidem discedunt) 
lateralia 2 inferiora solummodd equans; petiolus communis sub2uncialis 
aculeatus: stipule bine lincares erecte pilose, inferiores s@pits simplices, 
superiores et florales sepius bi-trijide. Flores inodort, roseo-purpurei, 
terminales, laxits paniculati, fastigiantes, erect, § uncie transversi v. 
circitér; pedunculi 1-3-flori, inferiores foliis_ superiores ‘stipulis subfolia- 
ceis axillares: bracterw instar stipularum. Cal. rotato-revolutus extus to- 
mentosus aculeolis muricatus viridi-canescens, ints scriceus rosco-candicans, 
persistens, segmentis ovato-acuminatis mucrone carnosulo viridissimo apicu- 
latis. Pet. 5, caduca, rosea, calyct genitalibusque e@qualia, erectissina, 
subcontigua, spathulato-rotunda, \amina obovato-rotundad crenulato-crosé 
staminibus appressd, ungue angusto concolort breviore. Stam. numerosa erecta 
pistilla arcté stipantia; fil. alba; anthe. fusce, polline ochroleuco. Pistilla 
numerosa erecta coarctata; styli sanguinet, glabri; germina vireniva hirsuta. 
A small bushy bramble from China; remarkable for 
the upright petals of the crimson flower and the compa- 
rative smallness of the foliage. Lately introduced.by the — 
Horticultural Society, at whose garden the present drawing 
was taken in August. On the native samples in the Bank- 
sian and Lambertian Herbariums, the leaves seem to be 
mostly ternate, on our’s many were quinate, the upper ter- 
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