8386 The Philippine Journal of Science 1922 
LITSEA Lamarck 
LITSEA ODORIFERA Valeton in Ic. Bogor. 3 (1909) t. 276. 
PALAWAN, Puguiauan, For. Bur. 27884 Cenabre, Baldemor, 
& Aduviso, February 5, 1920. On forested ridges, altitude 150 
meters, with the Tagbanua name magtagbak. Sumatra, Java 
(introduced), Borneo. 
ROSACEAE 
RUBUS Linnaeus 
RUBUS PERFULVUS sp. nov. § Malachobatus, Moluccani, Rugosi. 
Species R. rolfei affinis differt foliis minoribus, haud lobatis, 
basi truncatis, haud cordatis, subtus vix foveolatis. 
A scandent shrub, the branches glabrous, reddish-brown, 
aculeate, the aculeae 1 mm long or less, slightly curved, the 
branchlets densely fulvous-tomentose. Leaves coriaceous, ovate, 
6 to 9 cm long, 4 to 7 cm wide, shortly acuminate, base broadly 
truncate, irregularly toothed, not lobed, the upper surface 
dark olivaceous brown, glabrous, or when young more or less 
ciliate-pilose, shining, somewhat rugose, the lower surface 
very densely fulvous-tomentose, the indumentum obscuring all 
but the primary reticulations, the midrib and nerves with scat- 
tered small spines hidden in the indumentum, base 3-nerved, 
the primary lateral nerves above the basal pair usually 4 on 
each side of the midrib, prominent; petioles about 1 em long, 
densely fulvous-tomentose and retrorsely aculeate, the aculeae 
hidden in the indumentum; stipules free, narrowly oblong, en- 
tire, deciduous, about 1.5 em long, 3 mm wide, outside densely 
tomentose, inside glabrous. Inflorescences terminal, about 5- 
flowered, the flowers somewhat crowded, large, about 5 in each 
raceme, often solitary flowers also in the upper axils, the pedicels 
densely tomentose, 1 cm long or less. Calyx about 13 mm long, 
the lobes lanceolate, acuminate, densely fulvous-tomentose. 
Achenes about 3 mm long, somewhat rugose, glabrous, strongly 
ventricose-curved, the styles about 5 mm long. Fruit red when 
mature, 
MINDANAO, Bukidnon Subprovince, ‘Mount Lipa, Bur. Sei. 
38566 Ramos & Edaio, July, 1920. In the mossy forest, alti- 
tude about 2,000 meters. 
A very distinct species, among the hitherto described forms 
most closely allied to Rubus rolfei Vid. but very different from 
that species in its vegetative characters. 
