JANUARY 25, 1908] A Century or New PLANTS 296 
to 5 on each twig, spreading, mostly curved, short brown 
pubescent, 6 to 10 cm. long, only toward the apex short 
paniculately branched; secondary peduncles strict, ascending, 
similarly pubescent, subcompressed, pedicels 2 to 4 mm. 
long, subtended by ciliate vestiges of bracts; flowers few, 
early falling, yellowish green, suberect; calyx cinereous pubes- 
cent on both sides at the base, 3-lobed; the lobes rather 
thick, oblong, roundly obtuse, parallel nerved, 4 mm. long, 
about 3 mm. wide; the inner 3 segments similar but a trifle 
larger and the lobes nearly free; fertile stamens 9, in sever- 
al series, strict, not exceeding the inner calyx segments, 
all inserted upon the base of the calyx; filaments subequal 
in length, 2.6 mm. long, .subcompressed, fleshy, sparsely 
pubescent; anthers broadly ovate, 1 mm. wide across the 
base, 1.25 mm. long at most, basifixed, all introrse except 
the outer or third series which is extrorse, 4-celled, the 
upper pair of cells smaller, slightly oblique or subparallel, 
opening by lids which suspend from the upper end; stam- 
inodae about 9, the inner ones introrse, the outer ones 
extrorse, unequal in length, their short filaments similar, 
the apex broadly subcordate, terminated with a sharp point: 
ovary subglobose to short obovoid, closely surrounded by the 
inner whorl of staminodae, at least 1 mm. in diameter, 
sessile; style glabrous, 2 mm. long; stigma irregularly lobed; 
fruit not seen. 
Type specimen 9121, A. D. E. Elmer, Lucban, Prov- 
ince of Tayabas, Luzon, May, 1907. In light open woode 
or shrubberies bordering the Botocan River at 500 meters. 
This same species has several times been collected in Mindoro. 
ROSACEA E. 
Rubus benguetensis n. sp.--Sprawling or subscandent; 
stems quite rigid and numerously provided with sharp 
prickles; branches brown, pubescent, also prickly. Leaves 
scattered along the branchlets, flat, rigidly spreading, ovate, 
10 em. long, one half as wide toward the base, frequently 
smaller, glabrous except along the nerves, apex obtuse or 
acute, base shallowly cordate, margin finely serrate; nerves 
5 to 7 on each side, much ascending, the midrib usually 
prickly; petiole about 2 cm. long, prickly and yellowish 
