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(20) Leaves densely, velvety, or glabrate R. tagaUus. 



Leaves glabrous. (21) 



(21) Leaflets rnncli narrower, thinner, terminal leaflet 7 cm. long, 2^ cm. 



broad E. rosifdius. 



Leaflets much broader, much thicker, the terminal leaflet 8 cm. long. 

 4 cm. wide R. fraxirtijolim. 



Rub us conduplicatusDuTHEE (PL XXIV.) HAY ATA Materials for a Flora 

 of Formosa p. 89, et Suppl. p. 449. Branches glabrous, terete, more or less 

 striate, with a very few prickles, reddish purple or dark brown, sometimes 

 covered with powders, prickles short, l mm. long, transverse, straight, 

 laterally compressed and broadened at the base. Leaves lobed or 3-lol>ed, 

 oblong when not lobed, 5| cm. long, 3 cm. broad, or broadly triangular when 

 lobed, cuspidate at the apex, profoundly cordate and 3-nerved at the base, 

 central nerve 9 cm. long, basal nerves 6 cm. long, lobes acuminate or shortly 

 cuspidate, divaricate from the central one at an angle of 60, glabrous on 

 both surfaces, more or less glaucous beneath, veins impressed above, pro- 

 minent beneath, sparingly prickly on the midrib, petioles l-3 cm. long 

 sparingly prickly, stipules linear, acuminate 1 cm. long. Flowers in cymes, 

 cymes axillary, peduucled, 6 cm. long including peduncles, 5 cm. broad, 5- 

 10-flowered, bracts very like stipules, but smaller, pedicels ^-1 cm. long. 

 Calyx dark-purple, glabrous outside, pubescent inside, lobes ovately trian- 

 gular, elongate, 6 mm. long, 3 mm. broad at the base, aristately acuminate, 

 margin whitish, cupule glabrous, nearly flattened, 1 cm. in diameter. 

 Petals obovate 5 mm. long, 3 mm. broad, rounded at the apex, obtuse at the 

 base, I mm. broad at the base. Stamens on the margin of the cupule, 2- 

 seriate, filaments dilate, complanate, 3 mm. long, mm. broad, apex abruptly 

 narrowed filiformed, anthers orbicular, emarginate on both ends. Carpophore 

 small, semi-globose, slightly pubescent or nearly glabrous. Carpels obli- 

 quely obovate narrowed at the base, slightly hairy towards the apex.; styles 

 persistent hairy near the base; stigrca terminal glabrous inside, slightly 

 pubescent towards the base outside. 



HAP. Shintiku: Taihei ; Ako: Tai joreuge ; Randaisan. 



