195 



filaments 4 to 5 mm. long, glabrous; iinthors 1 mm. Ovaries many, 

 glabrous. Eeeoptacle glabrous. Fruit red, oAoiil about 1.5 cm. long, 

 glabrous. 



Luzon, Province of Benguet, Pauai (4810 Merrill) November 8, 1905. In 

 thickets near border of tlie mossy forest at about 2,200 m. A species characterized 

 by its trifoliate leaves, solitary larRe flowers, and peculiar capitellate. almost 

 spine-like, hairs. 



Rubus luzoniensis Merrill sp. nov. 



A scandent shrub 5 to 6 m. high, with simple leaves, and terminal lax- 

 panicles, the branches, inflorescence, and under surface of the leaves 

 densely pale ferruginous pubescent. Branches brown, terete, stift', with 

 scattered, small, usually somewhat i-etrorse spines, densely ferruginous 

 pubescent. Leaves coriaceous, ovate to elliptical-ovate, 5 to 10 cm. long, 

 4 to 7 cm. wide, the base broad, truncate to slightly cordate, the apex 

 acute or blunt, the margins rather finely dentate, not lobed, the npper 

 surface dull or slightly shining, somewhat pilose on the midrib and nerves 

 and also with few scattered long hairs (jn the lamina, Ijecoming nearly 

 glabrous, the under surface pale and very densely pubescent, the midril) 

 and nerves also with scattered long hairs, the midrib with few scattered 

 spines; nerves (! to 7 on each side of the midrib, prominent, ascending, 

 nearly straight, the reticulations prominent, subparallel ; petioles 1 to 

 2.5 cm. long, densely pubescent and with small scattered spines. Inflores- 

 cence a terminal, rather lax panicle often 30 cm. long, the rhachis, 

 branches and Ijranchlets very densely ferruginous pubescent or pilose, and 

 with scattered small spines, the branches irregular, distant, usually spread- 

 ing, the lower ones often 15 cm. long, few flowered. Flowers white, short 

 pediceled, about 1.(5 cm. in diameter, the bracts ovate lanceolate, densely 

 pubescent, 5 mm. long or less. Calyx very densely ferruginous pilose, 

 the lobes ovate to oblong-ovate, acute, about (> lum. long. Petals oblong 

 obovate, gradually narrowed below, obtuse, (i to 7 mm. long, 3 to 4 mm. 

 wide. Stamens indefinite; filaments glabrous, about 5 mm. long; anthers 

 0.5 ]nm. long. Ovaries many, somewhat pilose on one side above or 

 nearly glabrous, the receptacle pilose. Fruit unknown. 



Luzon, District of Lepanto, Mount Data (4596 Merrill] November 4, 1905. 

 In the mossy forest at about 2,250 m. Sterile specimens of another species were 

 collected in the same locality, strongly resembling the above, but the leaves (jiiite 

 glabrf)us or at least only slightly pilose beneath. 



LEGUMINOSE.E. 



INDIGOFERA Linn. 



Indigofera linifolia Retz. Obs. 4 (1779-1791) 29; Baker in Hook. f. Kl. Brit. 

 Ind. 2 (1870) 92. 

 Luzon, Province of Benguet, Ambuklao to Daklan (41)87 Mo'rill) October 25. 

 1905. On dry, rocky banks in open grass lands at an altitude of al)oiit 900 iii. 

 Not previously reported from the Philippines. Abyssinia to Afghanistan, British 

 India, \rala\ii. and nortluMii Australia. 



