448 LEAFLETS OF PHILIPPINE BOTANY (Vor. I, Amr. 23 
-..1. Rubus pectinellus Maxim. in Bull. Acad. Petersb. $5 
147, 1871. 
A creeping perennial herb, taking roots from the joints, 
more or less villous throughout and provided with sharp recurv- 
ed hooks. Leaves scattered, membranous, dark green on the 
upper surface, flat, horizontal, cordately rotund or occasionally 
obscurely 8-lobed, with finely dentate margins, both surfaces 
covered with long villous hairs, 2 to 5 cm. across, the 3 to 
5 primary nerves prominent beneath and provided with spines, 
the reticulations numerous and quite conspicuous; petiole 
varying from 2 to 5 em. in length, villous, the under side 
provided with spines; stipules always laciniately dissected, 1 
cm, long or less, soft membranous and villous, broadly ob- 
long in outline. Inflorescence axillary or terminal, mostly 
1-flowered but sometimes as many as 3; pedicel 1 to 3 cm. 
long, villous and spinescent; usually provided with a stipular 
bract; calyx cup-shaped, the 5 lobes united below the mid- 
dle, priekly toward the base, more or less villous, pectina- 
tely or laciniately margined, broadly ovate to oblong, apex 
elongated, acuminate, 10 to 15 mm. long, less than 9 mm. 
wide, thin; petals 5, white, deciduous, ovately obtuse to oblong 
and rounded, base broadly rounded and terminated by a 
very short claw, 10 mm. long, 8 mm. wide below the base; 
stamens many, 5 mm. long, unequal in length; filaments 
glabrous, somewhat flattened, inserted with the petals upon 
the throat of the calyx; anthers basifixed, cordate apex oc- 
casionally bifid, 1 mm. long; styles nearly as long as the 
filaments, subglabrous, bearing a small capitate stigma: berry 
deep red, flattened and with comparatively few achenes. 
This Japanese species inhabits the high mountains of the 
Philippines, and is very similar to R. calycinus Wall. from 
which the stipules distinguish it. Said also to have 
ties to R. buergeri Miq., a woody species. 
affini- 
2. Rubus mearnsii Elm. n. sp. 
Apparently.a sprawling or subscandent shrub; twigs te- 
rete, provided with rather small prickles, densely olivaceous 
tomentose and with slender reddish hairs terminated by glands. 
Leaves simple, alternatingly scattered, ovate, finely dentate, 
