KOSACE.E. 225 



Rubus corchorifolius LINN. f. ; DC. Prodr. II. p. 567 ; HANCE in 

 Journ. Bot. (1878) p. 10, et (1884) p. 42 ; MAXIM, in Mel. Biol. VIH. p. 

 380 ; FEANCHET PI. David, p. 109 ; FORBES et HEMSL. lud. Fl. Sin. I. p. 230 ; 

 DIELS Fl. Cent. Cliin. p. 391. 



Rulus villosus THUNB. Fl. Jap. p. 218. 



Rubus Oliver'i MIQ. in Ann. Mus. Bot. Lngd.-Bat. III. p. 35. 



var. glaber MATSUM. in Tokyo Bot. Mag. XV. p. 157 ; MATSUM. et 

 HAYATA Enum. Fl. Formos. p. 121 ; HAY ATA Fl. Mont. Formos. p. 79. 



HAB. Horisha, Snislia, Taichu : Kashigataui. 



DISTRIB. Type : Japan and China. 



Rubus elegans HAYATA in Tokyo Bot. Mag. XX. p. 74, et Fl. Mont. 

 Formosa p. 79, t. 4. Stem very short, nearly shrubby at the base, simple, sub- 

 erect 1- rarely 2-flowered. Leaves all radical, oblong or oblong-lanceolate, 

 with petioles 6-7 cm. long, 2 cm. broad, (petioles 1.5 cm. long), pinnate 13-15- 

 foliolate, leaflets obovate, 1-1.5 cm. long, -|- cm. broad, terminal one sometimes 

 3-lobate, serrate, serras acute, aculeate on the petioles and costas, stipules 

 aduate, subulate, linear, nearly 1 cm. long. Flowers larger, pedunculate, 

 peduncles 5-6 cm. long, 1-bracteate, bracts minute, acute, 2 mm. long. Flowers 

 patent, 22 mm. in diameter. Calyx-lobes ova tely triangular, aculeate acuminate, 

 8 mm. long, outside pubescent. Petals broadly ovate, 9 mm. long, obtuse at 

 the apex, base shortly clawed. Stamens numerous, filaments flattened 

 glabrous. Syncarp ovately globose, 1 cm. long or longer. Receptacle ovately 

 globose. 



HAB. Ganzau. 



Rubus fasciculatus DUTHIE (PL XXV.) in Ann. Bot. Gard. Calc. IX. 

 p. 39 ; HAYATA Materials for a Flora of Formosa p. 90, et Suppl. 449. 

 Branchlets terete, more or less sulcate, covered by soft long bristles and also 

 with soft pubescent coat, (bristles 3 mm. long, very slender transversely 

 spreading), and remotely beset with prickles, prickles recurved down- 

 wards, 2-3 mm. long, laterally compressed, broadened at the base. 

 Leaves trifoliolate, ovate in outline, 15 cm. long including petioles, 8-9 

 cm. broad, petioles and petiolules as downy prickly and bristly as the 



