eee ee oe T ee ee E 
November 23, 1908] Synopsis or Rusus 
A scrambling shrub or semiprostrate in habit; branches 
without prominent hooks, densely yellowish aracnoid pubescent, 
_ terete. Leaves 7 cm. across, alternatingly scattered, simple, 
palmately 3 to 5-lobed, the basal pair much smaller or not 
evident, with a very dense yellow matrix of hairs on the lower 
faveolate surface, glabrous or nearly so on the upper rugose 
surface, comparatively rigid, margins doubly dentate, cordate, 
the lobes rounded obtuse or even acute; veins prominent be- 
neath, covered with a dense yellow tomentum, reticulations 
very numerous and pronounced; petiole 2 to 4 cm. long, covered 
with a similar tomentum; stipules grayish pubescent on the 
outer side, 1.5 em. long, oblong, 5 mm. wide, entire along 
the inner edge, toothed on the outer edge, laciniately divid- 
ed at the apex. Inflorescence terminal or occasionally from 
the uppermost leaf axils, racemose, comparatively short, con- 
gested and few flowered; flowers 1 to 8. in a cluster, subtended 
by thin rather large pectinate bracts; pedicels 1 cm. long, 
very densely covered with a reddish brown or yellow matrix 
of hairs; calyx mostly of 7 segments of unequal widths but 
of equal lengths, 2 cm. long, slenderly acuminate, the outer 
ones wider and densely covered with similar hairs, the basal one- 
third united, cinereous on the inner surface above the middle; 
petals whitish, not exceeding the calyx segments, 5, deciduous, 
10 to 15 mm. long, elliptic oblongish to obovate, apex rounded, 
abruptly narrowed or clawed at the base, inserted upon the 
throat of the calyx; stamens numerous, subequal, not equal- 
ling the petals, strict; filaments glabrous, inserted upon the 
calyx throat; anthers oval or ellipsoid, less than 1 mm. long, 
basifixed; styles similar to the filaments, terminated by small 
clavate stigmas; berry red, conical to subglobose. 
Based upon Cuming’s number 808 and Vidal’s number 
294 from mount Banahao, Tayabas province, Luzon, at 5500 
feet altitude. Since then cellected on mount Halcon, Mindoro, 
and on Canlaon volcano, Negros. 
9. Rubus rugosus Sm. in Rees Cycl. No. 30. 
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A low spreading shrub, 1. m. high, with many rigid | 
branches; stems terete, brown, beset with fine erect or recurved 
prickles; twigs also prickly, dirty yellow tomentose. Leaves 
more or less crowded, scattered, coriaceous, flat, green on the 
