460 LEAFLETS OF PHILIPPINE Botany (Vor. tl, ART 23 
calyx throat; anthers ellipsoid, 0.6 mm. long; style less in 
length than the filaments, also glabrous, terminated by min- a 
ute capitate stigmas; ovary villous; berry subglobose, flat- 1 
tened, reddish. 
Rare in open shallow ravines along streamlets of Ben- 
guet province, Luzon. 
14. Rubus fraxinifolius Poir. Ency. 6; 242. R. rosaefoli- 
us Vid. (not of Smith) Sinops. t. 46, f. d. 1883. R. celebicus 
Blm. in Presl’s Epim. Bot. 196, 1849. 
Numerously branched shrub, 3 to 5 m. high, with terete 
stems which finally turn brownish; branches lax, widely spread- 
ing, green, smooth except for the prickles of which there 
are many or only a few. Leaves alternate, scattering, im- 
paripinnate, greatly varying in size, the average one 15 cm. 
long; petiole smooth, usually prickly beneath, 3 to 5 cm. long, 
bearing in the axils a tuft of bracts and a pair of simple 
leaves; leaflets 5 to 7, coriaceous, glabrous, lighter green 
beneath, serrate, the serratures terminating into cusps, ovately 
lanceolate, rounded at the base, gradually tapering into 
acuminate to caudate points, 4 by 19 me. in size, although 
variable in size and shape; petiolules 1 to 4 mm. long, glab- 
rous except the sulphur yellow pubescence on the upper side; 
stipule glabrous, subulate, mostly entire but the broader ones 
laciniately divided, 1 em long; nerves 9 to 13 pairs, strict, 
brown and very oblique, prominent beneath, conspicuously 
sunken on the upper surface. Panicle terminal, several to 
numerously flowered, subpendulous, often very large; branches 
divaricate, smooth, reddish brown, subtended by ample, glab- 
rous, laciniate bracts; pedicels slender, 1 to 3 cm. long, usually 
with L or 2 bracteoles; calyx segments united toward the 
base, 15 mm. long, gradually tapering to the acuminate or 
caudate apex, glabrous on the exterior, tomentulose on the 
inner surface and along the overlapping outer edge; petals 
white, elliptic to obovate, obscurely clawed at the base, 10 — 
mm. long, 7 mm. wide; stamens glabrous, 3 to 4 mm. long, 
subequal, inserted upon the calyx throat; anthers versatile, 
0.75 mm, long, ellipsoid; style terminated by minute capitate 
stigmas; conical receptacle nearly glabrous; berry red, elong- 
ated with numerous carpels. 
