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tilamentis tenuibus lougis. Carpella paui-a mnjuscula, cum 

 stylorum longorum parte inferiore laxe pilos.i, rnatura segre- 

 gatim seaceiletitia, carpophorum denso pilorum annulo cir- 

 cumdatuin. Di"ape)lae exsiccatae lute?ceiiti-albi(?ae, ca. 4 mni. 

 lo igae, 2.0 — 2.F> mm. latae, ut videtur parutn carnosae. 



Mindanao: Cabadbaran (Mt. Urdaneta), I'rov. Agusati, 

 A. D. E. Elmer, No. 13606. 



This platit resembles R. acuminatus and its allies in the 

 short petioles, the shape of leaves and bracts, the size and 

 number of carpels, etc., but it is differs l).y the long patent 

 inferior branches of the Pubcorymbose panicle and by long 

 filiform filaments. The whitisl) colour of the dried drupelets 

 is very curious. 



Rubus apoensis Elmer n. sj). 



lJ-<uali3' solitary, erect, sometimes brincbed from near 

 the base, 2 to 5 dm. high; stem green, distinctly woody 

 towardy the base, terete, yellowish l)rown i>ulverulent, less 

 than 4 mn:i. thick toward the base, only springly branelied 

 from above tlie middle. Roots numerous and wiry Leaves 

 alternate, divaricately spreading, the bisal ones scarcely longer 

 than 5 cm., the upper or larger ones three times iis loig, 

 with 5 to 7 leaflets, imparipinnate; rachis dirty yellowish 

 pulverulent; with scattered straw brown slightly recurved 

 spines, the petiole proper about 3 cm. long; stipu'e of one 

 to several linear segments or with few laciniate divisions, 

 7.5 mm. long or less; leaflets flat, soft, a trifle paler green 

 beneath, drying brown, the terminal one largest, ovately 

 elongated, the lamina 1 dfn. long by 4.5 cm. wide below 

 the middle, su!)se8sile, the termiinil one. (inely pulverulent 

 aU)ng the veins on b )th sides, slenderly acuminate at apex, 

 base subcuneate or truncately rounded, the lower leaflets 

 smallest, ovate to elliptic or even obovate; margins doubly 

 dentate, the serratures finely apicuiate, sidn'Otire around tbe 

 base; nerves al)i>ut 10 pairs in the termimd or largest leaflet, 

 o to 7-nerved in the otliei-, nh'ique. brown, also vi-ible 

 from the upper side. Inflorescenc- axillary, o em. long, in 

 fruit /> cm. long, only few br.UK'hed from the middle. ;i-- 

 cenling, th^ ■'talk- pubrTulent not glandular; pedicel sleudri-, 



