A GREEN FRUITED RUBUS PROM BRAZIL. 



This species, Rubus brasili^Jisis Mart., occurs in the 

 Highlands of Minas Geraes, where it was collected in 1914 

 by the Dorsett, Shamel and Popenoe Expedition. The plant 

 grows to a height of six or more feet, and produces its 

 fruits in clusters of good size. It is called by the 

 natives, amora, a name which properly belongs to the mul- 

 berry but is also applied to Rubus rosaefolius as well as 

 the species here shown. The fruits are translucent yel- 

 lowish-green when ripe, sweet and agreeable in flavor but 

 rather seedy. For breeders of rubiaceous fruits this 

 species may be of interest and value. Brazilian Expedition 

 Photo No. D 1579, taken at Sitio, Brazil, Jan. 28, 1914. 



