KOSACE^E. 227 



PISTKIB. Aii euclemic plant. 



Rubus fraxinifolius POIR. " Encyc. VI. p. 242 "; MIQ. Fl. Ind. Bat. 

 I. p. 376 ; HOOK. f. Fl. Brit. Lid. H. p. 342 ; MAXIM, in Mel. Biol. VIET, 

 p. 391 ; MATSUAI. in Tokj^o Bot. Mag. XVI. p. 4 ; MATSUM. et HAY ATA Euum. 

 PI. Formos. p. 121 ; HAYATA Fl. Mont. Formos. p. 80. 



HAB. Goshoriu, Kutosliu, Kusshaku, Tohosha. 



DISTEIE. Java and India. 



Rubus hirsutus HAYATA Itiibns roscefol'ms SM. var. hirsufa HAYATA Fl. 

 Mont. Formosa p. 81. Erauchlets aculeate, pilose, hairs strong, prickles smaller, 

 falcate, acuminate. Leaves ovately acuminate, hirsute, with petioles 5-6 cm. 

 long, 5-foliolate, lateral leaflets subsessile or shortly petiolulate, oblong, 

 elliptical, 1 cm. long or longer, dentate, teeth acute, terminal leaflet ovately 

 lanceolate, duplicato-deiitate, teeth acuminate, petiolules 5 mm. long, acu- 

 leate on petioles and costas ; stipules subulate, ciliolate. Flowers 

 terminal or lateral, often solitary, pedunculate. Calyx-lobe ovately triangular, 

 long caudate, tails linear, 6 mm. long, outside pubescent. Petals ovate, 11 mm. 

 long, 8 mm. broad, rounded at the apex, acute at the base. Stamens 

 numerous, filaments flattened. Fruits yet unknown. 



HAB. Mt. Morrison. 



Rubus Kawakamii HAYATA (PI. XX VI), Materials for a Flora of Formosa 

 p. 91. Branches fusco-pubescent or fuscent, slender, at first soft tomeutose, at 

 last glabrous, somewhat straight, shortly aculeate, prickles 1 mm. long, dilate 

 at the base. Leaves long petiolate, oblong, oblong-ovate or elliptically 

 ovate, 12 cm. long, 5 cm. broad, acuminate at the apex, roundly ovate at 

 the base, margin obscurely remotely serrulate duplicately serrulate, very 

 variable, obscurely 3-uerved at the base, costas and veins slightly im- 

 pressed above, elevate beneath, primary veins including basal nerves 7-8 

 on each side, nearly parallel, divaricate from the casta at an angle of 30, 

 glabrous above, tomeutose beneath, glabrous at last, minutely remotely 

 aculeate on the costa beneath, petioles slender, 2i cm. long, canaliculate 

 above, aculeate beneath, stipules deciduous, not yet seen. Cymes umbellate, 

 a few-flowered, flowers 5-6, long pedicellate, pedicels 2 cm. long, densely 



