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LEAFLETS or PuHiLiPPINE BOTANY [Vor. II, ART. 23 
upper side, ovately rotund in outline, mostly 3-lobed although 
the lateral lobes are in the larger blades themselves lolulate, 
glabrous above or with a few long whitish hairs scattered in 
between the very prominent rugose excrescences, the lobes round- 
ed or merely obtuse, the base deeply cordate, all less than 6 cm. 
across, margins denticulate, beneath densely covered with a 
grayish yellow woolly matrix; nerves very conspicuous beneath, 
only the larger ones apiculate toward the base, the reticulations 
minute, very evident; petiole stout, similarly pubescent and 
spinulose, 1 to 3 cm. long, strict; stipules 1 cm. long, 
oblong, glabrous on the inner side, pubescent otherwise, mostly 
laciniate. Inflorescence terminal and from the leaf axils, strict; 
flowers more or less crowded, usually 1 to 3 upon 1 cm. long 
peduncles, subtended by ample stipular bracts; calyx cup- 
shaped, the 5 sepals united at the base, villous on the exte- 
rior, lanose on the interior, 12 mm. long, the acuminate 
segments entire or the broader ones divided at the apex; 
petals white, 8 mm. in length, broadly obovate, nearly as 
wide, abruptly terminated at the base into a short claw; sta- 
mens 5 mm. long, inserted with the petals upon the calyx 
throat, with elliptic anthers 0.5 mm. long; pistils glabrous, 
equalling the stamens, bearing comparatively large clavate stig- 
mas; berry flattened, yellow, with a stringent flavor. 
So far we know this characteristic species only from the 
grass lands in the higher altitudes of Benguet and Lepanto 
provinces, Luzon. It is referred to the obove name with some 
uncertainty. 
10. Rubus ellipticus Sm. in Rees Cycl. 30, No. 16. 
A straggling or suberect shrub, 1 to 3 m. high; branches 
spinescent, tomentose, densely covered with reddish bristle 
like hairs. Leaves alternatingly scattered, 3-foliate, 7 to 13 
em. long; peduncles strongly spinescent along the under side, 
pubescent and bristly hairy, stout, straight, 2to 5 cm. long; 
leaflets 3, the lateral pair upon 2 mm. long and the 
larger terminal one upon a 2 cm. long petiolule, subchart- 
aceous, rotund elliptic to broadly obovate, apex broadly 
rounded to subtruncate or occasionally subemarginate, base 
rounded, dark green and glabrous on the upper side, pal- 
lescent and tomentose on the under side, the average blade 
