NovemsBer 23, 1908] Synopsis or RUBUS 459 
distant, spreading, few-flowered, gradually smaller upward. 
Flowers white or greenish white; the bracts and bracteoles 
ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, about 2 mm. long; the pedicels 
densely pubescent, 2 to 6 mm. long. Buds globose, densely 
gray-pubescent. Sepals broadly ovate, about 5 mm. long, 5 
mm. wide at the base, short-acuminate. Petals glabrous, orbi- 
cular-obovate, apex broad, rounded, base somewhat acute, 
6 to 7 mm. long. Stamens, carpels, and styles glabrous. 
So far only known from central Mindanao, the type 
locality. 
13. Rubus lasiocarpus Sm. in Rees Cycl. 30, No. 6. R. 
horsfieldia Mig. Fl. Ind. Bat. 1, (pt. 1); 875, 1855. 
À large rambling shurb, 3 m. high; branches terete, 
glaucous at first, ultimately wearing brown, provided with 
many stout straight sharply pointed spines; twigs witish, smooth, 
with more or less recurved prickles. Leaves variable, 5 to 
10 em. long, imparipinate, alternate, scattered and more or 
less crowded at the base of the branchlets; peduncle 1 to 
3 cm. long, slender, pubescent, when young with sharply 
| hooked spines; leaflets 5 to 7, nearly of equal size, ovately 
1 lanceolate to oblongish, grayish white and lanose or tomen- 
| tose beneath, serrately dentate, glabrous above except the 
veins which are occasionally strigose, sessile, the terminal 
one upon a 5. mm. long petiolule, submembranous, the 
normal ones 3 em. long and obout one half as wide, ob- 
tuse or acute at apex, mostly rounded at the base; nerves 
strict, very oblique, conspicuous beneath, sunken on the 
upper surface, 7 to 9 pairs, cross bars or reticulations ob- 
solete; stipule 8 mm. long, linear lanceolate, entire, glau- 
cous and pubescent. Inflorescence short paniculate or co- 
rymbose, terminal or from the uppermost leaf axils; pedun- 
cle and pedicels pubescent, occasionally provided with spic- 
ules, subtended by stipular bracts; calyx 7 mm. long, near- 
ly as wide, pubescent on both sides, the segments united at 
the base and terminated in acuminate points; petals rarely 
exceeding the calyx segments, orbicular or broadly obovate, 
pink or whitish, easily falling, conspicuously clawed at the - 
base, filaments glabrous, somewhat flattened toward the base, 
subequal, 3 mm. long, with the petals inserted upon the 
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