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crucifere.t:. 



LEPIDIUM Linn. 



Lepidium ruderale Linn. Sp. J'l. (IT.")."}) (■>4r) ; Hook. f. e^ Andr. in Hook. f. Fl. 

 IJrit. Jnd. 1 (1872) 1(>(). 

 Lx'ZON. Province of ('a<jay;ni, Tu<>iu><;iiriio (ISS M(irilh .liinc S. 1!)()2. In dry. 

 open, waste places, a weed, apparently introduced, l)ut well established. Not 

 pi-e\i(iiisly reported from tlie l*liilip])ines. Eui(>|)e. Asia. Xorth America, and 

 Australia. 



CARDAMINE Linn. 



Cardamine parviflora J.inn. Sp. \>\. ed. 2 ( 17(i:i) 014; DC. Prodr. 1 (1S24) 

 i:)2; Forbes c^- lienisl. Journ. Linn. Soc. Bot. 23 (ISSO) 44. 



LrzoN, IJistiict of Lepaiito, Balili (4()0i) Merrill) November 5, 1905, in a coiTco 

 plantation, damp shaded soil at about 1,000 m.; Province of Benguet, Bagnio 

 (5840 Elmer) March, 1904, in open damj) soil along streams at about 1,400 m. 



Tlie first species of the genus to be reported from the Philippines, apparently 

 native, and not distinguishable from the widely distributed Cardamine parviflora 

 Linn., wliich extends from North America to Europe, northern Africa, and tem- 

 perate .\sia southward to Formosa. 



ROSACE.Il 



RUBUS Linn. 



Rubus copelandi Merrill sp. nov. 



An ascend ing plant 1 to l.S m. liiiili, witli trifoliate leaves and solitary 

 axillary white flowers, or sometimes two or mon* pedicels from the upper 

 axils, the stems, petioles, and pedicels with usually slender, recurved 

 spines, and slender spine-like capitellate hairs. Stems terete, greenish 

 or I'cddish. not at all pubescent, the spines and intermixed capitellate 

 haii's rather nuincrous. Leaves alternate, trifoliate, the ])etioies about 

 'A cm. loii^-, s])iiiy and with capitellate stiff hairs, the stipules ovate- 

 laiucolate to oblong- ovate, acuminate, nearly 1 cm. louii'. foliaceous, 

 (apitcllate hairy; leaflets ovate to elliptical-ovate, acuminate, lirm. brittle 

 wlifii dry, ,uiabrous on both surfaces, except the sonu'what pubescent 

 midrib above, palei- beneath. 4 to 7 cm. louii", 2 to 4 cm. wide, rather 

 al)ruptlv acuminate, th(> base broad, rounded, tliat of the lateral leallets 

 often ine(iuilatcral. the margins dentate or hidentale. the teeth small, 

 mucronate acuminate: nerves about in on eaeb side of the midi'ib, rather 

 ])rominent, ])arallel. the midrib and often the lateral ner\cs with i'eti-orse 

 spiiU'S beneath, petiolules of the lei-minal leallets abmit \ .') cm. b)n,!4'. 

 of the lateral lUies 1 to •.' mm. Mowci's white. ".'..") to .". cm. in dianu'ti'f. 

 the j)edicels I cm. lon<i: or h'^^^. spitw aiul with capit(>lhite hairs. Calyx 

 cinereous ])\ibescent or puberulent. the lobes with i'rw slender spines and 

 capitellate hairs, ovat(! laiieeolate. acuminate, ol'len 1 cm. loni;', .") mm. 

 wide or less. Petals elliptical, r<uinded, somewhat nai'i'owed below. 

 about 12 mm. loU'f. S mm. wide, distinctiv seined. Stamens indellnite: 



