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Central China; in the Provinces Kansu, Szechwan, and Yunnan. It is 

 occasionally grown for its fruit and was introduced by the United States 

 Department of Agriculture in 1898. It is reported to be hardy as far north 

 as Minnesota. 



Subgenus VI. Orobatus. Focke in Engler & Prantl Nat. Pflansenfam. 3:31. 1888; 

 Focke Spec. Rub. i:jo. iqio; Ibid 3:18. 1914. Not Oreobatus Rydberg Bui. Torrey 

 Bot. Club ^0:2-] 1^. 1903. 



Prickly shrubs with woody, perennial, erect or more or less climbing stems. Leaves 

 simple or 3- or rarely s-foliolate, with mostly large, broad, dentate, persistent stipules. 

 Inflorescence loose, few flowered; flowers usually large with rose-colored petals. Fruits 

 large, not always juicy, with numerous often whitish tomentose drupelets. 



About 20 species, almost all natives of the Andes of Tropical South 

 America at elevations from 3600-12000 feet, one species is a native of the 

 Costa Rica mountains and one is known from the Philippine Islands. So 

 far only the following species has been introduced as a fruit plant: 



Rubus macrocarpus. Bentham PL Hartweg. 129. 1844; Focke Spec. Rub. 1:37. 

 1910; Popenoe Jour. Hered. 11:195. fig- 1920; U. S. D. A. Bur. PL IndusL Invent. 13, 

 65, PI. III. 1923. 



Columbian Berry.— Canes erect, recurving at the tip, or half-climbing, about 3 m 

 long, stout, light green, villous-tomentose and with reddish glandular hairs and with short, 

 slightly recurved prickles. Leaves trifoliolate or simple and often lobed, large and coarse; 

 leaflets stalked, thick, ovate or broadly elliptic, acute, serrate, velvety pilose on both sides, 

 8-15 cm long; stipules large, subcordate, villous, 25 mm long; petioles 15 cm long. Flowers 

 single or 3-6 from lateral branches, pedicels 8-12 cm long, stout, like the calyx pubescent, 

 glandular and prickly; cah'x-lobes large, deltoid, pointed, exceeding the obovate light 

 rosy-purple petals; pistils numerous, densely villous. Fruits very large, up to 55 mm long, 

 elongate, light crimson to wine colored; drupelets relatively small, rather loosely cohering; 

 core succulent, extending nearly to the top of the fruit and at maturity often separating 

 from the drupelets. 



South Avierica; in the Andes of Colombia and Ecuador, from 2500- 

 3500 feet, in a moist cool region. The fruit is said to be " rather firm in 

 texture, not as juicy as most of the cultivated blackberries, and of a pleasant 

 subacid flavor (quite acid until the fruit is fully ripe) perhaps suggesting 

 that of the loganberry more than that of the cultivated blackberries." 

 (Popenoe 1. c.) 



Subgenus IX. Anoplobatus. Focke Abh. Nat. Ver. Bremen ^-.m. i.i(). 1874; Focke 

 Spec. Rub. 2:123. 191 1. 



Rubacer and Oreobatus. Rydberg Bui. Torrey Bot. Club 30:274. 1903. 



Erect unarmed shrubs with perennial stems, increasing in thickness with age. Leaves 

 simple, lobed ; stipules adnate to the petiole. Flowers large, showy, white or pink. Fruit 

 scarcely juicy, finally getting dry. 



