462 LEAFLETS or PAILIPPINE BOTANY [Vor. 1I, ART. 23 
17. Rubus rosaefolius Sm. Pl. Ic. Ined. 3, t. 60. R. 
jamaicensis Bleo. Fl. Filip. ed. 1; 427, 1837, R. comintanus 
Pico. l. c. ed. 2; 298, 18438. 
A subscandent woody shrub; branches with rather long 
glandular hairs and with a few polished hooks. Leaves pinnate, 
5 to 12 em. long; leaflets 3 to 7, membranous, lanceolate 
or ovate lanceolate, unequally incised, serrate, rarely with 
1 or 2 basal lobes, acuminate, rounded at the base, rarely 
strigose on the upper surface except the villous nerves 
and midrib, beneath less strigose but usually glandular, 
8 to 8 cm. long, 1 to 8 cm. wide; peduncle 2 to 3 
cm. long, provided with recurved spines; petiolules 1 to 3 
mm. long; stipules linear to acuminately lanceolate; nerves 
6 to 10, ascending, brown, not conspicuous. Flowers terminal, 
1 to 3-paniculate, upon 2 cm. long peduncles which are usually 
bracteate below the middle, glandular pubescent; calyx entire, 
lobes 5, lanceolate, acuminate, or even caudately tipped, gland- 
ular on the outside, lanose pubescent on the inside, united 
toward the base, 12 mm. long; petals equalling the calyx 
segments, white, equal in number, broadly obovate, abruptly 
narrowed at the base; numerous stamens subequal, with the 
petals inserted upon the calyx throat, 5 mm. long, glabrous; 
anthers oblong, 0.75 mm. long; styles glabrous, terminated 
into small clavate stigmas; berry elongated, bearing numerous 
red achenes upon a glabrous receptacle. 
This fom or species is intermediate between R. fraxini- 
folius Poir. and R. tagallus C. et S. Subglabrous specimens can 
be distinguished from the former by the less eftiaceous leaves 
which have more numerous and very prominent nerves. 
Subpubescent specimens differ from the latter in being gland- 
ular and in having usually larger more acuminate leaflets. 
R. tagallus C. et S. is a low dwarfed species not subscandent 
in habit; R. fraxinifolius Poir. is a larger x A shrub with 
more numerously flowered panicles. Throughout the Philip- 
pines. 
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