386 The Philippine Journal of Science 1922 



LITSEA Lamarck 

 LITSEA ODORIFERA Valeton in Ic. Bogor. 3 (1909) t. 276. 



Palawan, Puguiauan, For. Bur. 2788U Cenabre, Baldemor, 

 & Aduviso, February 5, 1920. On forested ridges, altitude 150 

 meters, with the Tagbanua name rrrngtaghak. Sumatra, Java 

 (introduced), Borneo. 



ROSACEAE 



RUBUS Linnaeus 

 RUBUS PERFULVUS sp. nov. § Malachobatus, Moluccani, Rugosi. 



Species R. rolfei affinis differt foliis minoribus, haud lobatis, 

 basi truncatis, haud cordatis, subtus vix foveolatis. 



A scandent shrub, the branches glabrous, reddish-brown, 

 aculeate, the aculeae 1 mm long or less, slightly curved, the 

 branchlets densely fulvous-tomentose. Leaves coriaceous, ovate, 

 6 to 9 cm long, 4 to 7 cm wide, shortly acuminate, base broadly 

 truncate, irregularly toothed, not lobed, the upper surface 

 dark olivaceous brown, glabrous, or when young more or less 

 ciliate-pilose, shining, somewhat rugose, the lower surface 

 very densely fulvous-tomentose, the indumentum obscuring all 

 but the primary reticulations, the midrib and nerves with scat- 

 tered small spines hidden in the indumentum, base 3-nerved, 

 the primary lateral nerves above the basal pair usually 4 on 

 each side of the midrib, prominent; petioles about 1 cm long, 

 densely fulvous-tomentose and retrorsely aculeate, the aculeae 

 hidden in the indumentum; stipules free, narrowly oblong, en- 

 tire^ deciduous, about 1.5 cm long, 3 mm wide, outside densely 

 tomentose, inside glabrous. Inflorescences terminal, about 5- 

 flowered, the flowers somewhat crowded, large, about 5 in each 

 raceme, often solitary flowers also in the upper axils, the pedicels 

 densely tomentose, 1 cm long or less. Calyx about 13 mm long, 

 the lobes lanceolate, acuminate, densely fulvous-tomentose. 

 Achenes about 3 mm long, somewhat rugose, glabrous, strongly 

 ventricose-curved, the styles about 5 mm long. Fruit red when 

 mature. 



Mindanao, Bukidnon Subprovince, Mount Lipa, Bur. Sd. 

 38566 Ramos & Edano, July, 1920. In the mossy forest, alti- 

 tude about 2,000 meters. 



A very distinct species, among the hitherto described forms 

 most closely allied to Rubus rolfei Vid. but very different from 

 that species in its vegetative characters. 



