NovemBer 23, 1908] Synopsis or -RUBUS 453 
and also with few scattered long hairs on the lamina, be- 
coming nearly glabrous, the under surface pale and very dense- 
ly pubescent, the midrib and nerves also with few scattered 
long hairs, the midrib with few scattered spines; nerves 6 
to 7 on each side of the midrib, prominent, ascending, near- 
ly straight, the reticulations prominent, subparallel; petioles 
1 to 25 em. long, densely pubescent and with small scat- 
tered spines. Inflorescence a terminal, rather lax penicle of- 
‘ten 30 cm. long, the rhachis, branches and branchlets very 
densely ferruginous pubescent or pilose, and with scattered 
small spines, the branches irregular, distant, usually spread- 
ing, the lower ones often 15 cm. long, few flowered. Flow- 
ers white, short pedicelled, about 1.6 cm. in diameter, the 
bracts ovate lanceolate, densely pubescent, 5 mm. long or 
less. Calyx very densely ferruginous pilose, the lobes ovate 
to oblong-ovate, acute, about 6 mm. long. Petals oblong 
obovate, gradually narrowed below, obtuse, 6 to 7 mm. long, 
3 to 4 mm. wide. Stamens indefinite; filaments glabrous, 
about 5 mm. long; anthers 0.5 mm. long. Ovaries many, 
somewhat pilose on one side above or nearly glabrous, the 
receptacle pilose; fruit unknown. 
Only known in the mossy forest at about 6750 feet, district 
of Lepanto, Luzon. 
7. Rubus moluccanus Linn. Sp. Pl. 1197, 1753. R. 
sundaicus Blm. in Presl’s Epim. Bot. 197, 1849. R. sundaicus 
Blm. by Rolfe in Journ. Bot. 23; 212, 1885. R. sundaicus 
` Blm. in Vid. Rev. Pl. Vase. Filip. 122, 1886. R. glomeratus 
Blm. in Bot. Chall. Exped. 148. R. glomeratus Bim. in Presl’s 
Epim. Bot. 197, 1849. R. glomeratus Blm. in Miq. Fl. Ind. 
BAL. 1, pt. 1; 381, 1855. R. glomeratus Blm. by Stapf in Trans. 
Linn. Soc. Bot. 4; 144, 1894. E, glomeratus Blm. in Vid. Rev. 
Bl. Filip. 192, 1886. R. glomeratus Blm. in Vid. Phan. Cum. 
Filip. 111, 1885. R. cumingii Kuntze Methodik 76. 
A tall climber and scrambling over thickets and small 
trees; young branches rusty tomentose, provided with rather 
‘ short recurved prickles. Leaves alternate, simple, scattered 
: along the branchlets, subcoriaceous, somewhat broader than 
long, ovate or orbicular, or triangularly shaped, deeply cor- 
: date, mostly 5 to 7-lobulate, frequently subentire, 8 to 18 
I cm. long, correspondingly wide, those toward the ends of the 
