ROSACE.E. 229 



DISTRIB. Malay archip. and peninsula. 



Rubus Morii HAYATA Materials for a, Flora of Formosa p. 90. 

 Branches fusco-purpurascent, terete, pubescent, minutely aculeate, prickles 

 1 mm. long. Leaves cordately ovate, 6 cm. long, 44 cm. broad, cuspidately 

 acuminate at the apex, (cusps 1| cm. long), rounded at the base, lobulate 

 on the margin, lobules serrate, (serras cuspidate), 3-nerved or pinnately 

 nerved, scabrous above, minutely sparingly lepidote, more pallid beneath, 

 petioles 1 cm. long, smooth, stipules oblique elongately oblong, 12 rum. long, 

 5 mm. broad, acute at the apex, laciniately dentate on the margin, scabrously 

 lepidote. Flowers racemose, racemes terminal, 10 cm. long, lepidote, bracts 

 acuminately ovate, laciniate. Calyx densely lepidote outside, (reflexed when 

 fructiferous), cupule strongly reflexed, 3 mm. in radius, profoundly reticulately 

 furrowed inside, lobes acuminately triangular, 9 mm. long, 44 mm. broad 

 at the base, lepidote outside, slightly pubescent inside. Petals persistent, 

 obovate, denticulate, entire downward, 5 mm. long, 24 mm. broad, cuneately 

 nan-owed at the base. Stamens 1-seriate, filaments complanate 2.} mm. long, 

 reddish glanduliferous at the base. Carpophore globose, 1^ rnm. in diameter, 

 barbate, stipitate, stalks 1] mm. long, barbate. Drupels Literally compressed, 

 li mm. long, 1 mm. broad, reticulately rugulose. 



HAB. TaitJ : Cliakaukei. 



Remarkable for the cnpules which are very much reflexed and deeply 

 reticuLitely fun-owed. 



Rubus nantoensis HAYATA iFl. XXVII.) Materials for a Flora of 

 Formosa p. 92. Branches terete, fusco-fulvesceut, flexuose, softly tomentose 

 upwards, at last subglabrous, minutely prickly remotely leafy. Leaves long 

 petiolate, 3-5 lobate, broadly ovate in outline, 8 cm. long, (5 cm. broad, 

 acute at the apex roundly cordate or truncately rounded at the base, 

 margin irregularly serrulate, terminal lobe lialf as long as the leaf, 

 acute at the apex, slightly contracted at the base, subovate, o cm. long, 3 cm. 

 broad, sinus between lobes rounded, lateral lobes smaller, basal lobes minute, 

 5-nerved at the base, reticulately and papillosely rugose above, costas 

 veins and veiulets slightly impressed above, at last subglabrate, albo- 



