56 ROSACES. 



Near R. rosce/olius SM. , but separable from it in having much smaller 

 flowers with giandularly dotted calyx. Remarkable for the leaves and the 

 petioles dispersed with glandular dots. 



HAB. Mt. Arisan, inter Funkiko et Taroyen, leg. TAKEO ITO et B. HAY ATA 

 Mart. 1914. 



Rubus parvipungens HAYATA sp. nov. Suffrutex scandentissimus ; ramis 

 et ramulisque leviter flexuosis sublrevibus vel longitudinaliter tenuissime striatis 

 in exsiccato purpureo-fulvescentibus hand hirsutis glaberrirnis vel subglabris 

 remote aculeolatis, aculeis lineari-triangularibus longissimis 8 mm. longis valde 

 complanatis longe cuspidiformibus basi elongato-triangulari-dilatatis ad basin 

 4 mm. latis rubescentibus versus apicem linearibus subrectis transverse sitis. 

 Rainuli hornotini florigeri e ramo alternatini oriundi generaliter 1-florati brevis- 

 simi 2-4 cm. longi basi dense ut videntur quasiverticillatim foliati flore solitario 

 terminales, permis (deciduis?) hand visis. Folia alterna basi ramulorum densis- 

 sirne quasiverticillatim disposita membranacea inferiora minora, superiora majora 

 cum petiolis 2-6 cm. longa 1-3 cm. lata in ambitu oblongo-ovata 5-7-foliolata 

 toto tenuiter hirsuta, foliolo terminali oblongo-ovato 8-25 mm. longo 5-10 mm. 

 lato apice gradatim acuminato basi obtuso vel rotundato margine duplicato- 

 serrato-dentato, sen-is primariis (in specimine majore) 2 mm. latis l^mm. longis 

 apice cuspidato-acutis latere superiore sen-is secundariis singulis latere inferiore 

 serris secundariis duabus instructis argute acutis acutissimis sursurn recurvis 

 ascendentibus, ad basin integro, costis veuisque supra tenuiter impressis subtus 

 elevatis, venis lateralibus primariis utroque latere 9-8 subparallelis rectissimis 

 vel subrectis, mediis a costa angulo 30 egressis ad apicem serraruni primaria- 

 rum attingentibus a se 1^-2 mm. distantibus, venulis inter venas primarias 

 transverse sitis haud elevatis sed distincte coloratis et visis, pagine in exsiccato 

 supra fuscenti subtus pallidiore, costa subtus remote aculeolata, foliolo laterali 

 subopposito vel subalterno foliolo terminali minore, infinio minimo dimidium 

 folioli terminalis aequanti basi generaliter truncato plus minus obliquo inter- 

 dum asquilato creterum cum foliolo terminali confornii, petiolulis foliolorum 

 lateraliurn brevissimis 1mm. longis hirsutis, petiolulo folioli terminalis (in 

 specimine majore) 5 mm. longo, interjugis 8 mm. longis, petiolis communibus 

 (ab axillis usque ad foliolum infimum) 12 mm. longis cum petiolulo terminali, 



