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feet. 
LsarLETS or PHILIPPINE BOTANY [Vor II, Art. 23 
gins dentate or bidentate, the teeth small, mucronate acum- 
nate; nerves about 10 on each side of the midrib, rather 
prominent, parallel, the midrib and often the lateral nerves 
with retrorse spines beneath, petiolules of the terminal leaf- 
lets 1.5 cm. long, of the lateral ones 1 to 2 mm. Flowers 
white, 2.5 to 3 em. in diameter, the pedicels 1 cm. long 
or less, spiny and with capitellate hairs. Calyx cinereous 
pubescent or puberulent, the lobes with few slender spines 
and capitellate hairs, ovate lanceolate, acuminate, often | cm. 
long, 5 mm. wide or less. Petals elliptical, rounded, some- 
what narrowed below, about 12 mm. long, 8 mm. wide, dis- 
tinctly veined. Stamens indefinite; filaments 4 to 5 mm. long, 
glabrous; anthers 1 mm. Ovaries many, glabrous. Receptacle 
glabrous. Fruit red, ovoid, about 1.5 cm. long, glabrous. 
In thickets near border of the mossy forest at about 6500 
A species characterized by its trifoliate leaves, solitary 
large flowers, and peculiar capitellate, almost spine-like hairs. 
Known only from the province of Benguet, Luzon. 
12. Rubus clementis Merr. in Philip. Journ. Sci. 3, Sect. 
C; 139, 1908. 
Scandens, ramis ramulis inflorescentiisque plus minus pubes- 
centibus et aculeis brevibus reflexis armatis; foliis trifolio- 
latis; paniculis terminalibus, gracilibus, usque ad 60 cm. 
longis, pendulis; calycibus dense pubencentibus. 
Seandent. Branches terete, rather slender, reddish-brown 
and with the branchlets more or less pubescent and armed 
with scattered reflexed short spines. Leaves trifoliolate, their 
petioles 5 to 7 em. long, somewhat pubescent, aculeate, the 
petiolules of the lateral leaflets about 5 mm. long, of the 
terminal one aculeate and 2 to 3 em. long; leaflets ovate ‘to 
‘elliptical-ovate, chartaceous, 8 to 12 em. long, 4.5 to 6.5 cm. 
wide, base rounded, apex slenderly acuminate, the margins 
above rather strongly serrate, teeth apiculate, glabrous except 
the nerves of both surfaces, which are somewhat pubescent, 
the midrib beneath with few spines; nerves 7 or 8 on each 
side of the midrib, curved ascending, very prominent beneath, 
the reticulations prominent, subparellel. Panicles terminal, 
rather slender, pendulous, 60 cm. long or less, the lower 
branches 10 cm. long or less, the rachis, branches and branchlets 
pubescent and with scattered reflexed spines, the branches 
