Pap. $716; 
RUBUS Rreriexus. 
Native of China. 
Nat. Ord. Rosacrm.—Tribe Rusra, 
Genus Rubus, Linn.; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. i. p. 616.) 
Rusus reflecus; eglandulosus, caule scandente, ramis robustis sparsim acule- 
atis unacum petiolis foliis subtus et inflorescentia cinnamomeo-villosis, 
aculeis compressis rectis v. uncinatis, foliis amplis 3-8 poll. longis 
simplicibus e basi cordato-orbicularibus ovatis v. oblongo-ovatis obtusis 
integris v. 3-5-lobatis, lobis latis terminali elongato ovato v. oblongo 
marginibus denticulatis, supra saturate viridibus nervis impressis, subtus 
valide 3-nerviis, nervis primariis viridibus nervulis prominulis reticu- 
 latis, petiolo robusto, stipulis pectinatis, racemis parvis axillaribus 
_ deeurvis densifloris, bracteis serratis, floribus breviter pedicellatis }-3 
poll. latis, calycis dense villosi lobis late ovatis grosse serratis intus 
____sericeis fructu erectis, petalis parvis albis, staminibus brevibus, antheris 
-minutis rufescentibus, stylis capillaribus filamentis multoties longioribus, 
fructu parvo globoso, receptaculo villoso, carpellis maturis rabris pur- 
pureis v. nigris, pufamine rugoso. == —t Boe. 
R. reflexus, Ker in Bot. Reg. t. 461 (non R. gp ean B. reflexus, Wall. Cat. 
sub n. 748). DO. Prodr. vol. ii. p. 566. _ Hook. et Arn., Bot. Beech. Voy. 
p. 184. Benth. Fl. Hongk. p. 104. Seem. Bot. Voy. Herald, p. 376, 
Maxim. in Mel, Biol. vol. vii. p. 378. Kunze, Methodik, p. 53. Forbes 
& Hemsl. in Jowrn. Linn. Soc. vol. xxiii. (1886-8) p. 236. 
Rubus refleecus belongs to a group of tropical Asiatic 
Brambles that are extremely difficult to distinguish, of 
which f. moluccanus, L. (i. moluccus latifolius, Rumph. 
Herb. Amboin. vol. v. t. 47, f. 2) is the type. Bentham 
(Fl. Hongk. l.c.) regards it (reflewws) as the same as 
Rk. rugosus, Sm., a widely distributed species from the 
Himalayas to the Malayan Islands, in doing which he 
follows Wallich, who refers reflexus as a var. B. to rugosus. 
After some remarks on variation in the inflorescence and 
bracts of . rugosus, Bentham concludes with, ‘if united 
the R. rugosus, that is the older name; unless indeed the 
whole be considered as varieties of the Linnean R. moluc- 
_canus.” This last name is the one I adopted in the “ Flora 
of British India” (ii. p. 330), where the most prominent 
differential characters of the varieties are indicated. It is 
impossible in this work to enter further into the subject 
than to point out that R. reflexus is perhaps the most 
May Ist, 1900. . 
