92 ART. I.—B. HAYATA: 
Near /?. malifolius Fooxe; but differs from it in having more 
acute or even acuminate and usually trinerved leaves and cymose 
or even umbellate flowers. In WR. malifolius, the leaves are 
pinninerved and the flowers are in racemes. The present Rubus is 
also distinguishable from R. sepalanthus Focks by tri-nerved leaves 
and umbellately contracted racemes. This is also near R. Swinhai 
Hance, which differs from this plant, in having quite glabrous 
leaves, and not prickly pedicels and calyx. 
Rubus nanteensis Hayata sp. nov. Rami teretes, fusco-fulves- 
centes, flexuosi, sursum tomentis mollissimis obtecti, demum 
subglabrati, aculeis minutis dispersis, remote foliati. Folia longe 
petiolata, 3-5-lobata, late ovata in ambitu, 8 cm. longa, 6 cm. 
lata, apice acuta basi truncato-cordata, vel truncato-rotundata, 
margine irregulariter serrulata, lobo terminali in longitudine folium 
$-plo zquante, apice acuto, basi leviter contracto, subovato 5 em. 
longo 3 cm. lato, sinibus inter lobos rotundatis, lobis lateralibus 
minoribus, lobis basilaribus minimis, basi 5-nervia, supra reticulato- 
papilloso-rugosissima, costis venis et venulis supra leviter impressis, 
demum subglabrata, subtus indumentis densis albo-rubescentibus 
obtecta, costis venis venulisque subtus prominente reticulate elevatis, 
petiolis 34cm. longis, aculeolis minutis remote dispersis, vel 
levibus, stipulis angustatis 12 mm. longis obscure denticulatis vel 
integris. Flores racemosi, racemis axillaribus, brevioribus, 14 cm. 
longis, molle tomentosis, pedicellis brevibus 4 mm. longis, stipulis 
latissimis 3 mm. longis, 4mm. latis, margine laciniatis, extus 
tomentosis intus glabris, 2-bracteolatis, bracteolis 2 mm. longis 
digitato-laciniatis. Calyces campanulati, 5-lobati, extus dense 
intus tenuiter pubescentes, lobis late angustis, 5 mm. longis, 
3mm. latis, apice subito acuminatis. Carpophora semiglobosa, 
