194 

 GRUCIFEBE^. 



LEPIDIUM Linn. 



Lepidium ruderale Linn. S|>. PI. (17.">3) <»4") : Hook. f. A Andr. in Hook. f. PL 

 Brit. I ml. 1 ( 1872) 160. 

 Luzon, Province of Cagayan, Tuguegarao ( 188 Merrill) June 8, 1902. In dry, 

 open, waste places, a weed, apparently introduced, but well established. Not 

 previously reported from the Philippines. Europe, Asia. North America, and 

 Australia. 



CARDAMINE Linn. 



Cardamine parviflora Linn. Sp. PL ed. 2 (1763) 914; DC. Prodr. 1 (1S24) 

 152; Forbes & Hemsl. Journ. Linn. Soc. Bot. 23 (1886) 44. 

 Luzon, District of Lepanto, Balili (4009 Merrill) November .">. 1906, in a coffee 

 plantation, damp shaded soil at about 1,000 m.; Province of Benguet, Baguio 



(6846 Elmer) March, li)04, in open damp soil along streams at abont 1,400 m. 



The first species of tlie genus to be reported from the Philippines, apparently 

 native, and not distinguishable from the widely distributed Cardamine parviflora 

 Linn., which extends from North America to Kurope. northern Africa, and tem- 

 perate Asia southward to Formosa. 



ROSACEA. 



RUBUS Linn. 



Rubus copelandi Merrill sp. now 



All ascending plant 1 to 1.8 in. high, with trifoliate leaves and solitary 

 axillary white flowers, or sometimes two or more pedicels from the upper 

 axils, the steins, petioles, and pedicels with usually slender, recurved 

 spines, and slender spine-like capitellate hairs. Steins terete, greenish, 

 or reddish, not at all pubescent, the spines and intermixed capitellate 

 hairs rather numerous. Leaves alternate, trifoliate, the petioles about 

 'A em. Long, spiny and with capitellate stiff hairs, the stipules ovate- 

 lanceolate to oblong ovate, acuminate, nearly 1 cm. Long, foliaceous. 

 capitellate hairy: leaflets ovate to elliptical-ovate, acuminate, linn, brittle 

 when dry. glabrous on both surfaces, except the somewhat pubescent 

 midrib above, paler beneath, 1 to 7 cm. long, '2 to \ cm. wide, rather 

 abruptly acuminate, the base broad, rounded, that of the lateral leaflets 

 often inequilateral, the margins dentate or bidentate, the teeth small. 

 mucronate acuminate; nerves about 10 on each side of the midrib, rather 

 prominent, parallel, the midrib and often the lateral nerves with retrorse 

 spines beneath, petiolules of the terminal leaflets about 1.5 cm. Long, 

 of the lateral ones 1 to 2 mm. Flowers white. 2.5 to :\ cm. in diameter, 

 the pedicels 1 cm. long or less, spiny and with capitellate hairs. Calyx 

 cinereous pubescent or puberulent, tin- Lobes with few slender spines and 

 capitellate hairs, ovate lanceolate, acuminate, often 1 cm. long, 5 mm. 

 wide or less. Petals elliptical, rounded, somewhat narrowed below, 

 about 12 mm. Long, 8 mm. wide, distinctly veined. Stamens indefinite; 



