246 LEAFLETS. 
Some Oriental Rubus Allies. 
If I gave to the genus PARMENA an oriental name, it was with 
the fact in mind, that it seems to have its fuller development on 
the Asian shores of the Pacific. There the species are all 
simple-leaved, yet in habit, inflorescence, flowers and fruit, ap- 
parently at full agreement with Rudus spectabilis. Several of 
them will take names as follows under PARMENA. 
P. PALMATA. Thunberg, under Rubus. 
P. INCISA. í í $ 
P GRAYANA. Maximowicz, “ < 
A most interesting congener of the Northwest American 
BossEKIA NUTKANA (=Rubus Nutkanus, Moc.) occurs, as 
might have been anticipated, in Japan ; that is to say, 
B. PELTATA (nés peltatus, Maxim.) With the habit. 
inflorescence, and flower of typical Boss—EK1a—even to the ex- 
cessively numerous pistils that Necker makes the most essential 
character of the genus—the oriental species is not wholly un- 
armed. Its specific name points to the fact that the two 
basal lobes of the angled foliage, instead of forming a sinus as 
in other species, are quite grown together, so that technically 
speaking the leaf is peltate. 
In habit and foliage suggestive of our American Dalibarda, 
yet extremely unlike it in character, is a Japanese type which 1 
may denominate 
CALYCTENIUM. Herbaceous perennial, prostrate, rooting at 
some nodes. Leaves orbicular, simple, dentate; stipules folia- 
ceous but laciniate-parted. Peduncles solitary, terminating 
upright leafy branches, these and also the petioles aculeolate, the 
calyx very densely so, and with long straight prickles ; segments 
of calyx unequal, large, 2 usually smaller and subentire, 3 
deeply pectinate-pinnatifid. Petals white, abruptly unguiculate. 
Pistils rather many. 
C. PECTINELLUM. Maximowicz under Rubus. 
