ROSACES. 225 



Rubus corchorifolius Lixx. f. ; DC. Proclr. II. p. 567 ; HANCE in 

 Journ. Bot. (1878^ p. 10, et (1884) p. 42 ; MAXIM, iu Mel. Biol. VEI. p. 

 380 ; FKANCHET PI. David, p. 109 ; FORBES et HEMSL. Ind. Fl. Sin. I. p. 230 ; 

 DIELS Fl. Cent. Cliin. p. 391. 



Rubus villosus THUXB. Fl. Jap. p. 218. 



Riibus Oliveri MIQ. in Ann. Miis. Bot. Lngd.-Bat. ITT. p. 35. 



var. glaber MATSOI. in Tokyo Bot. Mag. XV. p. 157 ; MATSUM. et 

 HAYATA Enum. Fl. Formos. p. 121 ; HAYATA Fl. Mont. Formos. p. 79. 



HAB. Horisha, Suisha, Taichu : Kasliigatani. 

 Type : Japan and China. 



Rubus elegans HAYATA in Tokyo Bot. Mag. XX. p. 74, et Fl. Mont. 

 Formosa- p. 79, t. 4. Stem very short, nearly shrubby at the base, simple, sub- 

 erect 1- rarely 2-flowered. Leaves all radical, oblong or oblong-lanceolate, 

 with petioles 6-7 cm. long, 2 cm. broad, (petioles 1.5 cm. long), pinnate 13-15- 

 foliolate, leaflets obovate, 1-1.5 cm. long, \ cm. broad, terminal one sometimes 

 3-lobate, serrate, serras acute, aculeate on the petioles and costas, stipules 

 aduate, subulate, linear, nearly 1 cm. long. Flowers larger, pedunculate, 

 peduncles 5-6 cm. long, 1-bracteate, bracts minute, acute, 2 mm. long. Flowers 

 patent, 2'2 mm. in diameter. Calyx-lobes 'ovately triangular, aculeate acuminate, 

 8 mm. long, outside pubescent. Petals broadly ovate, 9 mm. long, obtuse at 

 the apex, base shortly clawed. Stamens numerous, filaments flattened 

 glabrous. Syncarp ovately globose, 1 cm. long or longer. Receptacle ovately 

 globose. 



HAB. Ganzan. 



Rubus fasciculatus DUTHIE (PI. XXV. i in Ann. Bot. Gard. Calc. IX. 

 p. 39 ; HAYATA Materials for a Floia of Formosa p. 90, et Suppl. 449. 

 Pranchlets terete, more or less sulcate, covered by soft long bristles and also 

 with soft pubescent coat, (bristles 3 mm. long, very slender transversely 

 spreading), and remotely beset with prickles, prickles recurved down- 

 wards, 2-3 mm. long, laterally compressed, broadened at the base. 

 Leaves trifoliolate, ovate in outline, 15 cm. long including petioles, 8-9 

 cm. broad, petioles and petiolules as downy prickly and bristly as the 



