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31. Rubus leucanthus I lance 



The stems and pétioles armed with hooked prickles, and 

 as wcll as every ot other part oi' the plant, perfectly glabrous. 

 Leaves pinnate with 3 leaflets, or a l'ew ol' the upper ones 

 reduced to a single one. Leaflets ovale, acuminate, serrately 



toothed, the larger ones 2 to 3 in. long, the latéral ones 

 usually smaller. Flowers 2 to 5 together, on a short axillary 

 common pedunclë. Pedicels about 4 lines long. Scpals ovate 

 smooth, ahoul l lines long, elosing over the fruit. Petals 

 white. — R. glaberrimus Champ, in Kew Journ. Bot. IV. 80. 

 In low grownds and ravines of the hills, Champion, Hahce, 

 Wright, \\ ilford. Not yet found out of the island. The two 

 names were both published early in 1852, one at Berlin, 

 the other in London and the latter by Champion, on the first 

 March, certainly prior to the réception in tins country of the 

 part of Walper's Annales wliich contained Hance's name and 

 diagnoses. As howewer D r Seeman states that the latter was 

 actually first published, I hâve adopted it (Bentham). 



Cette espèce est variable dans son feuillage. Aussi faut-il 

 veiller à recueillir les feuilles à différents niveaux sur les 

 rameaux. Il est même probable que l'on rencontrera des 

 rameaux entiers, sinon des buissons tantôt à feuilles toutes 

 simples, tantôt à feuilles toutes composées. 



La forme à feuilles simples constitue le R. païodoxus 

 Moore. 



Kouang-Tong; Hong-Kong; Haï-Nan. 



32. — Rubus maximus (). Kuntze 



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Eine bisher unbekannte Form der Moluccani, Die Blaet- 

 ter sind herzeiformig, zugespitzt, lederartig, ara hauptsten- 

 gel 15-18 cm. (olme blattstiel) lang, his auf den mittleren 

 hlattncrv voellig kahl, zuweilen (wie Blattform Nr. 28) welïig 

 angedeutet gelappt, die der zweige sind kleiner bis hall) so 

 gross. Der stengel ist vereinzelt behaart, die juengeren 

 theile sind es mehr und aneh stieldruesig ; er klettert in 

 Urwald lianenartig auf und ah, hoch in die Baeume und ist 



