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it in having solitary flowers. Also very near /. incisus THuns. 
from which the present Aubus differs in having more acuminate 
leaves and broader lobes of calyx. 
Rubus sorbifolius Maxm.; Focke in Eneu. Jahrb. XXIX. p. 
391. 
Has. Formosa, Henry, in Herb. Kew. 
Distris. Japan: Kiu-shiu; Himalaya, Central China. 
Rubus taitensis Hayara sp. nov. Rami tenuiter pubescentes, 
teretes, fusco-purpurascentes, breve spinulosi, spinis 4 mm. longis, 
transverse recto-recurvis, ramulis molle pubescentibus. Folia, 
simplicia, coriacea, ovata in ambitu, basi leviter cordata, apice 
acuminata, 54cm. longa, 44 cm. lata, 3-lobata, lobo  centrali 
elongato-ovato, 34cm. longo, 2 cm. lato, apice acuminato, basi 
leviter contracto, margine leviter dentato-serrulato, dentibus 
serrulatis, ad sinus inter lobos dentata, lobis basilaribus ovatis 
apice acutis, basi latere inferiore rotundato-acutis, trinervia, nervo 
centrali 55 cm. longo, nervos laterales 2-plo in longitudine superante, 
nervis lateralibus 24 cm. longis, a nervo centrali angulo 45° diver- 
gentibus, supra tenuiter pubescentia demum glabrata, subtus 
glauca, ad nervas et venas pubescentia venulis supra impressis 
subtus elevatis, petiolis 1 cm. longis, pubescentibus, stipulis ad basin 
petiolorum insertis, lanceolatis pubescentibus 7 mm. longis. Flores 
terminales solitarii, pedunculis 1 cm. longis villoso-pubescentibus. 
Calyces campanulati, 2-24 cm. in diametro, utrinque villoso-pube- 
scentes, aculeati aculeis minutis 1 mm. longis parce obtecti, 5-lobati, 
lobis triangulari-acuminatis 6-12 mm. longis, 4 mm. latis. Fructus 
(syncarpium) conico-globosus, 1 em. in diametro. Drupeole 
2mm. long, cum stylis persistentibus 2 mm. longis hirsute. 
