452 LEAFLETS OF PHILIPPINE BoTANY (Vor. LI, Arr. 23 
date, margins serrately dentate, yellowish tomentose beneath, 
with olivaceous. strigose hairs. on the upper side or becoming 
subglabrous; petioles stout, 1 cm.. long, densely covered 
with olivaceous pubescence, usually provided with a few spic- 
ules along the under side; nerves very prominent beneath, 
strict, oblique, depressed on the upper surface, 6 to 9 pairs, 
anastomosing but not submarginally united; stipules. about 
1 em. long,. laciniately toothed, oblong, 5 mm. wide, pubescent 
but. more so on. the outside. Young inflorescence terminal; 
buds more or less in small glomerules subtended by stipular 
bracts, short. pediceled, conical, 8 mm. long, 6 mm. wide 
across the base; calyx segment 8 mm. long, ovately or trian- 
gularly oblong, united toward ths base, wooly on both sides, 
entire, subtended by an involucre of 4 segments; these seg- 
ments average 10 mm. long, are ovately acute in outline, 
densely tomentose on both sides, provided with callous blunt 
teeth; petals not known; stamens numerous, inserted. upon 
the calyx rim, glabrous, 2. mm. long, . bearing versatile 0.75 
mm. long ellipsoid anthers; pistils equalling the stamens, 
also glabrous, bearing minute stigmas; receptacles hairy; berry 
pot knowns < sake abi eae Li EIN D vin 
©: Type specimen collected by Messrs. H. M. Curran and 
M. L. Merritt, Mount Tapulao, Province of Zambales, Luzon, 
November to December, 1907. (Forestry Bureau record 8085). 
i + This. very remarkable species is said to have blue (pur- 
plis ?) flowers, the buds of which .are subtended by a 4-lobed 
involucre. Approaches, R. luzoniensis: Merr. i 
6. Rubus luzoniensis Merr. in Phili 
1; 195, 1906. tes Tigers 
A scandent shrub 5 to 6 m. high, with simple leaves, 
and terminal lax panicles, the branches, inflorescence, and 
under surface of the leaves densely pale ferruginous . pubes- 
cent. Branches brown, terete, stiff, | with scattered, small, 
usually somewhat retrorse spines, densely ferruginous pubes- 
cent. Leaves coriaceous, ovate to elliptical-ovate, 5 to 10 
em. long, 4 to 7 cm. wide, the base broad, truncate to 
slightly cordate, the apex acute or. blunt, . the margins ra- 
ther finely. dentate, . not lobed, the upper - surface. dull or 
slightly shining, somewhat pilose on the midrib and nerves 
p. Journ. Sci. Suppl. 
