ROSACES. 229 



DISTBIB. Malay arcliip. and peninsula. 



Rubus Morii HAYATA Materials for a Flora of Formosa p. 90. 

 Branches fusco-purpurascent, terete, pubescent, minutely aculeate, prickles 

 1 mm. long. Leaves cordately ovate, 6 cm. long, 4i cm. broad, cuspidately 

 acuminate at the apex, (cusps 1| cm. long), rounded at the base, lobulate 

 on the margin, lobules serrate, (serras cuspidate), 3-nerved or pinna tely 

 nerved, scabrous above, minutely sparingly lepidote, more pallid beneath, 

 petioles 1 cm. long, smooth, stipules oblique elougately oblong, 12 mm. long, 

 5 mm. broad, acute at the apex, laciniately dentate on the margin, scabrously 

 lepidote. Flowers racemose, racemes terminal, 10 cm. long, lepidote, bracts 

 acuminately ovate, laciniate. Calyx densely lepidote outside, (reflexed when 

 fructiferous), cupule strongly reflexed, 3^ mm. in radius, profoundly reticulately 

 furrowed inside, lobes acuminately triangular, 9 mm. long, 44 mm. broad 

 at the base, lepidote outside, slightly pubescent inside. Petals persistent, 

 obovate, denticulate, entire downward, 5 mm. long, 2-| mm. broad, cuneately 

 narrowed at the base. Stamens 1-seriate, filaments complanate 2} mm. long, 

 reddish glanduliferous at the base. Carpophore globose, l mm. in diameter, 

 barbate, stipitate, stalks 1.} mm. long, barbate. Drupels laterally compressed, 

 1| mm. long, 1 mm. broad, reticulately rugulose. 



HAB. Taito : Chakaukei. 



Hemarkable for the cupules which are very much reflexed and deeply 

 reticulately furrowed. 



Rubus nantoensis HAYATA (PL XXVII.) Materials for a Flora of 

 Formosa p. 92. Branches terete, fusco-fulvescent, flexuose, softly tomentose 

 upwards, at last subglabrous, minutely prickly remotely leafy. Leaves long 

 petiolate, 3-5 lobate, broadly ovate in outline, 8 cm. long, 6 cm. broad, 

 acute at the apex roundly cordate or truncately rounded at the base, 

 margin irregularly serrulate, terminal lobe half as long as the leaf, 

 acute at the apex, slightly contracted at the base, subovate, 5 cm. long, 3 cm. 

 broad, sinus between lobes rounded, lateral lobes smaller, basal lobes miniate, 

 5-nerved at the base, reticulately and papillosely rugose above, costas 

 veins and veinlets slightly impressed above, at last subglabrate, albo- 



