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Ruhus j'avanicus Bliime 1. c. p. IIOS. 



Ruhus roscejlorus Roxb. 1. c. p. 519, 



Ruhus asper Don. Prodr. Fl. Nep. p. 234; Seringe in DC. 1. c. p. 5.5S, 



Ruhus silclcimensis 0. Kuntze MSS. ex Hook. fil. 



Ruhus paniculatus Clarke 1. c. non Sm. ex Hook. fil. 



Ruhus Eglanteria Tratt. 



Nom. Jap. O-haraicliigo. 



Hah. Prov. Tosa : Koyaika {T. 3fa7dno\ Oct. 19, 1895), Ibiiri (T. 

 Maldno ! Oct. 25, 1895), Godai-san near Kochi {T. 3Iakino ! July 1892, Sept. 

 29, 1892, May, 1893). 



It is not uncommonly found in the southern parts of the province of Tosa 

 in the island of Shikoku. Majority of my specimens are sterile, but those 

 collected on Grodai-san near Kochi, quoted above, bsar red fruits. 



b. minor Makino. 



About 2-6 decim. in height. Ehizome stout-filiform, widely creeping^ 

 rooting. Stem erect, slender, terete, flexuous, puberulent, very laxly armed 

 with prickles ; branches slender, pubescent, loosely armed with prickles ; 

 prickles mainly more or less curved upwards or straight, patent perpendicu- 

 larly to the stem, narrow, laterally compressed, sharply pointed, decurrent 

 at the base above and below. Leaves alternate, simply odd-j^innate with 

 5 to 11 leaflets, 31-18 cm. long including the petiole and 2-9i cm. 

 wide ; rachis narrow, pubescent, loosely armed with sharp prickles which 

 are patent and a little curved upwards or downwards ; leaflets thinly 

 pubescent on both surfaces and moreover minutely glandular beneath,, 

 lateral ones very shortly petiolulate or sessile, but usually larger in size and 

 distinctly petiolulate in the odd one, lanceolate to ovate-lanceolate, acumi- 

 nate, usually obtuse-rounded at the base, but sometimes acute in the odd 

 one, sharply duplicato-inciso-serrate, thinly chartaceous ; midrib sometimes 

 furnished with a few small prickles towards the base ; lateral veins more or 

 less regularly arranged, erect-patent, each reaching to the teeth ; veinlet 

 very finely anastomosing ; petiole slender, 1-4| cm. long, pubescent and loosely 

 armed with prickles, slenderly canaliculate in front, slightly dilated at the 

 base ; stipules inserted at the base of the petiole, linear to lanceolate or 

 sometimes subulate-linear, acuminate, entire, pubescent and glandular outside, 

 ciliated, with a midrib and obscure fine veins, 4-8 mm. long, persistent. 

 Flower about 2i-3^ cm. in diam., terminating the branches ; peduncle 

 filiform, pubescent. Calyx 5-partite with obtuse sinuses, pubescent, and 

 glandular at the tube ; the tube short and broad, truncate at the base, the 

 centre of the base concave externally but conical internally ; lobes patent and 



