500 _ ROSACEAE. [ Rubus. 
Climbing or scrambling, often forming a dense bush. Leatiets 
often tomentose beneath, broadly ovate. Fruit large, 
yellowish 3. R. schmideliordes. 
** Leaves |-foliolate. 
Small, prostrate. Leaves sharply dentate. Fruit very large .. 4. R. parvus. 
A Come dyn. Woe: Hate 114 
1. R. .australis Forst: -f.- Prodr. (1786) 224.—A tall Sines: fe cline 
the tops of the highest trees; stems stout, woody at the base; branches 
slender, drooping, armed with scattered recurved prickles. Leaves 
3-5-foliolate or rarely pinnate with 2 pairs of leaflets and a terminal 
one; leaflets coriaceous, glabrous, very variable in size and shape, 2-5 in. 
long, ovate-oblong or ovate-lanceolate to linear-oblong or almost linear, 
acute or acuminate, truncate or cordate at the base, sharply serrate ; 
petioles and midribs armed with recurved prickles. Panicles large, much 
branched, 6-24 in. long, leafy towards the base; pedicels short, glandular 
or pubescent. Flowers white, 4-}in. diam., dioecious; males larger and 
more conspicuous than the females. Petals broadly ovate or oblong. 
Fruit in. diam., reddish-orange—A. Rich. Fl. Nouv. Zel. (1832) 340; 
A. Cunn. Precur. (1839) n. 567; Raoul Choix (1846) 49; L. Kirk Students’ 
Fl. (1899) 125; Cheesem. Man. N.Z. Fl. (1906) 125. RK. australis var. 
glaber Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel. i (1853) 53, t. 14; Handb. N.Z. Fl. (1864) 54. 
: O AND Sourn Istanps, StewarT IstaAnp: Abundant from the Three Kings 
Islands and the North Cape southwards. Sea-level to 3000 ft. Tataramoa ; Bush- 
lawyer. Septem ber—November. 
Very variable; but easily distinguished from the other species by the large size, 
glabrous leaflets cordate or truncate at the base, large panicles, white flowers, and small 
red fruit. 
OM Ono Ber. Zale et, kb. Sb: 254 
2. R. eissoides A--Cunn. Precur. (1839) n. 569.—A scrambling or 
climbing shrub; branchlets slender, unarmed, usually much and closely 
interlaced, forming a dense bush. Leaves 3-5-foliolate; leaflets 2-5 in. 
long, narrow-ovate to lanceolate or linear-lanceolate, acuminate, rounded 
or cuneate at the base, sharply and irregularly serrate or lobed; petioles 
varying much in length, furnished with fewer and softer prickles than in 
R. australis. Panicles 2-6in. long, often reduced to racemes; pedicles 
pubescent or glabrate. Flowers yellowish-white, 4in. diam., dioecious. 
Calyx-lobes broadly ovate, tomentose. Petals linear-oblong. Fruit orange- 
red, much as in R. australis —Raoul Choix (1846) 49; T. Kirk Students’ 
Fl. (1899) 126; Cheesem. Man. N.Z. Fl. (1906) 125. LR. australis var. 
cissoides Hookes. Fl. Nov. Zel. 1 (1853) 533] Handb. N.Z. Fl. (1864) 54. 
Var. pauperatus 7’. Kirk I.c.—Leaves almost wholly reduced to prickly midribs 
or sometimes with a minute lamina at the tip; prickles vellowish. Flowers seldom 
produced, save in shade.—Fritsch in Oestr. Bot. Zeitschr. xxxvi (1886) 259. 
Cvar} subpauperatus Cockayne in Report Bot. Stewart Id. (1909) 42.—Leaves abundant 
or occasionally reduced to prickly midribs. Flowers not uncommon in shade ; prickles 
reddish. t. $7 (A277) $4. cf 7) ae iq uc) x79 
Norra aNnp MpurH Istanps, Stewart Istanp: Not uncommon from the North 
Cape southwards, chiefly in lowland districts. Septem ber—November. 
When growing in forest, and consequently in shade, the leaflets are usually well 
developed ; but in open situations, exposed to sun and wind, they are frequently reduced 
in size, so that in var. pawperatus littie remains beyond the prickly midribs. 
