Novemser 23, 1908] Synopsis or RUBUS 457 
5 cm. wide, finely toothed or serrate; nerves pronounced 
on the lower side, depressed on the upper, oblique, strict, 
: 7 to'9 pairs, tips anastomosing; stipules 1 em. long, linear, 
| pubescent. Panicles terminating the branches, elongated, 2 
to 3 dm. long, the lower branches arising from the upper- 
most leaf axils; floriferous peduncles varying in length, pubes- 
cent and bristly, strict; secondary peduncles and pedicels 
from 1 to 2 cm. long, subtended by pubescent linear bract- 
eoles; calyx 8 mm. long, united below the middle, pubes- 
cent and bristly toward the base, the 5 segments obtuse to 
acute and entire, the upper portion similarly pubescent on 
both sides, the midnerve usually protruded into a short point; 
petals 5, alternating with the sepals, and inserted upon the 
calyx throat, white, 7 mm. long, 8 mm. wide, oblanceolate 
or narrowly obovate, gradually tapering to the base, some- 
what pubescent especially toward the base; stamens 3 mm. 
long, glabrous; the filaments subcompressed, bearing subellip- 
f tic anthers; pistils somewhat shorter than the stamens, arising 
from a conical hairy receptacle; berry golden yellow, subglobose. 
Not uncommon in dry, grassy, well drained soil of shallow 
f ravines along streamlets of Benguet province, Luzon. Not 
1 yet collected elsewhere in the Philippines. 
11. Rubus copelandi Merr. in Philip. Journ. Sci. Suppl. 
1; 194, 1906. 
An ascending plant 1 to 1.8 m. high, with trifoliate 
leaves and solitary axillary white flowers, or sometimes two 
or more pedicels from the upper axils, the stems, petioles and 
pedicels with usually slender, recurved spines, and slender 
spine-like capitellate hairs. Stems terete, greenish or red- 
dish, not at all pubescent, the spines and intermixed capi- 
tellate hairs rather numerous. Leaves alternate,  trifoliate, 
the petioles about 8 cm. long, spiny and with capitellate 
1 stiff hairs, the stipules ovate-lanceolate to oblong ovate acu- 
minate, nearly 1 cm. long, foliaceous, capitellate hairy; leaf- 
lets ovate to elliptical-ovate, acuminate, firm, brittle when 
dry, glabrous on both surfaces, except the somewhat pubes- 
cent midrib above, paler beneath, 4 to 7 cm. long, 2 to 4. 
cm. wide, rather adruptly acuminate, the base broad, round- 
ed, that of the lateral leaflets often inequilateral, the mar- 
