RITBUS, a genus of plants of the order Rosa cem. The following East Indian species are the better known, viz.:— R. asper, Nepal.
R. bitlorus, Panjab.
R. ellipticus, Sm., Nepal.
R. distans, Nepal.
R. gowreephul, Roxb., Neligherries and other moun tains of India.
R. gracilis, Roxb., Nepal.
R. hexagynus, .Roxb., Peninsula. R. micranthus, Nepal.
R. Moluccanus, L., Tavoy, Moluccas, Khassya.
It. lasiocarpus, Sm., Neilgherries. R. paniculatus, Sm., Nepal.
R. parviflorus, L., China, Nepal. R. pauciflorus, TVall., Nepal.
R. rugosus, Snt., Peninsula, Mahabaleshwar.
R. Wallichianus, W. and A., Peninsula.
Griffith says there is a species of rubus in the Tenasserim Provinces, and Wallich found one on the Irawadi.—Roxb. p. 517 ; Voigt ; Mason'.
Rubus biflorus, Sm.
Ankren, . . . . BEAS. Karer, RAVI.
Kantanch, . . CHENAB. Bumbal, Insra, . SIITLEJ. Khariara, . . . . „ Batang, Kalkalin, „ Common from 5000 to 10,500 feet up to the Indus in the Panjab Himalaya. It has a red coloured, palatable fruit. Its stem is covered by a white pulverulent epidermal layer, looking as though whitewashed.
ltubus Ilavus, Ihtm.
Bramble, . . . . ENG. I "Unari, . . . PANJAB1.
Punkana, Guraclia, JIIEL. Ak111, Kimacbi, . RAvr.
This yellow-fruited bramble is found in the Sutlej valley between Ratnpur and Sungnam, at an elevation of 5000 to 7000 feet up to near the Indus. Tho fruit is very pleasant, used for preserves.
Ruling fruticosus, Linn.
thus. Shah-tin-gat-la, KANGRA.
Iliucn-tiau-tsze, CHIN. Unsri, . . . SUTLE.I. Bramble, Blackberry,ENG. Karwarci,. . TIL-INDUR. . . . KANGRA.
RUblIS fruticosus, like R. idmus, grows at Kash mir, and in the N.W. Panjab from the plains up to 5000 feet, and in China in the Yang-tze valley. It has dark-purple fruit, used to make a preserve, on the hills.
Rubus gowreephal, 1?oxb., Wild raspberry.
R. lndicus, Bottler. Gowreephal, . . HIND.
A plant with small white flowers, grows in Ceylon, the Neilgherries, Kamaon, Khassya, Assam, Taong Dong, common amongst tho woods betwixt Hardwar and Srinuggur ; also grows plen tifully in Mysore and Wynad.
Rubus idxus, Mount Ida bramble. . . CHIN. I . . CHIN.
This wild raspberry grows in Kan-su, Ho-nan, Shen-si, and Hu-pelt. It is inferior to the culti vated plant. it is a native of woods in Europe from Norway and Sweden t,o Spain and Greece. It is found also in Asia on the Himalayas, in the north of Africa, and in America from Canada to Pennsylvania. It is found abundantly in almost every part of Great Britain and Ireland.
Rebus lasiocarpus, Sm., Country raspberry. albeacens, Roxb. I R. Mysorensis, Ileyne. R. racemosus, Box& Gawreephal, . . DuKu. I Pukuna, • . . Blackberry, . . . ENO. Pakania, . KAGIIAN.
A plant of Neilgherries, Mysore, Ceylon, the Himalaya. up to 8000 feet, now cultivated gener ally in the Dekhan. It grows easily from seed; a few of the ripe fruit rubbed on a sheet of paper, and dried in the sun, will enable one to forward the seed to friends at any distance. The /IRMO With the strawberry. The plants should never be nearer than four or five feet, and may be eut down at the commencement of the rains, when they wilt throw out fresh shoots, and bear fruit in abundance. As it requires little care, and only an occasional supply of water, this bramble forms a very perfect and secure hedge to a kitchen garden. The finest fruit is very. inferior to a common raspberry.
Rubus purpureus, IIimalayan raspberry. Althi of Kulu.
Rubus tiliaceus, Sm., Pulla of Kangra. A black fruited species, not uncommon frotn 4500 to 8500 feet, up to the Indus. The fruit is black-, and not much prized.—Afaslie ; Cleghorn; Eng. Cyc.; Honigberger ; Riddell; Powell; Stewart ; l'oiyt.