146 DR. O. STAPF ON THE FLORA OF MOUNT KINABALU. 
RUBUS ROSAFOLIUS, Smith, Ic. ined. iii. t. 60; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. i. pt. 1; 375. 
On the Kadamaian, alt. 2500 feet (Haviland, 1195) ; alt. 3000 feet (Burbidge). 
Distribution: All over Malaya to New Guinea and South-east Australia; Indo-China, 
to the Khasia Hills and the temperate Himalaya; Japan; South Africa and Madagascar 
(introduced ?). 
JR. rosefolius is “ cultivated around the upland villages of North Borneo near Kina- 
balu,” according to Burbidge, as it is in many parts of the Tropics ; whence it is very 
difficult to trace the original area. 
RUBUS FRAXINIFOLIUS, Poir. Dict. vi. 242. 
Near Kiau, alt. 3000 feet (Zow ; Haviland, 1376); on the northern slopes to 5000 feet 
. (Low). 
Distribution: Throughout the Malay Archipelago, from Java to the Philippines and to 
Tidor. 
POTENTILLA LEUCONOTA, D. Don, Prodr. Fl. Nepal. 230. 
, Var. BORNEENSIS, Stapf. Folia utrinque dense argenteo-sericea. Bracteolze, sepala, 
petala, stamina 2-3-plo majora, ceterum simillima. Achzenia paulo majora, magis 
elongata, sub apice sericeo-pilosa. 
In crevices of the rocks, and on dry sheltered places from 11,000 to 13,000 feet (Low ; 
Haviland, 1058). 
Distribution (of species): Alpine Himalaya, east of Gurhwal to South-west China 
(Yunnan, Mt. Omei); Borneo; New Guinea. 
This plant is mentioned by Sir Joseph Hooker in his Fl. Brit. Ind. ii. pt. 2, 352, 
as found on Kinabalu, but referred to P. leuconota, D. Don, without any further 
remark. There is no doubt with regard to the extremely close affinity between the 
Himalayan and Bornean plants. But from the more complete material which is now in 
my hands it appears to me necessary to distinguish the latter from the former by the 
characters given above. 
Sir F. v. Mueller indicates a variety “ papuana” of the same species from the Owen 
Stanley Ranges and from Mt. Musgrave, from 8000 to 13,000 feet (Trans. Roy. Soc. 
Victoria, vol. i. pt. 2, 5). The specimen of it which I saw agrees perfectly with the 
Kinabalu plant in habit, except the poor inflorescences, whilst the flowers are inter- 
mediate between those from Kinabalu and from the Himalaya, and the achenes are 
glabrous and even more elongate than in the variety borneensis. 
POTENTILLA Moontana, Wight, Icon. t. 233. 
= ——, var. KINABALUENSIS, Stapf. Folia basalia foliolis majoribus utrinque 16-20, supra 
. glabris, subtus in nervis sericeis, in dentibus pilis longis patulis ciliatis, foliolis inter- 
positis minutis, interdum suppressis. Bracteolæ sepalis angustiores, squilong:e, 
integre vel rarius minute tridentatze. Achzenia paululo majora, nervis prominulis. 
~ In swampy, sheltered, sunny spots, at 11,000 feet ( Haviland, 1056). 
Distribution (of species): Ceylon; Himalaya, from Kumaon to Sikkim; Khasia Hills; 
