230 ROSACEJE. 



rul>escent beneath, costa, veins and veiulets prominently and reticulately 

 elevated beneath, petioles 3J- cm. long, prickles minute, remotely dispersed 

 or smooth, stipules narrowed 12 mm. long, obscurely denticulate or entire. 

 Flowers racemose, racemes axillary, 1^ cm. long, softly tomeutose, pedicels 

 4 mm. long, bracts broadest, 3 mm. long, 4 mm. broad, laciniate, tomentose 

 outside, glabrous inside, 2-bracteolate, bracteoles 2 mm. long, digitately 

 laciuiate. Calyx campanulate, 5-lobed, densely pubescent outside, slightly 

 pubescent inside, lobes broadly narrowed, 5 mm. long, 3 mm. broad, 

 abruptly acuminate at the apex. Carpophore semiglobose, barbate, carpels 

 with styles 5 mm. long, stigma capitate. 



HAB. Nant-j : Bikei. 



Near It,, rugosus SM ; but differs from it by the smaller flowers and 

 more acutely lobed leaves. 



Rubus parvifolius LINN. Sp. PL ed-2, p. 707 ; DC. Prodr. H. p. 

 564; LOUR. Fl. Cocliiuch. ecl-WiLLD. p. 393; BENTH. Fl. Hongk. p. 105, 

 et Fl. Austral. IT. p. 430 ; MAXIM. Mel. Biol. VIII. p. 392 ; MIQ. Prol. Fl. 

 Jap. p. 222 ; FRANCE, et SAVAT. Eiium. PL Jap. I. p. 127 ; FORBES et 

 HEMSL. Ind. Fl. Sin. I. p. 235 ; HENRY List PL Formos. p. 40 ; Pro et 

 MATSUM. Tent. FL Lutch. p. 451 ; PALIBIN Conspact. Fl. Korene I. p. 79 ; 

 MATSUM. et HAYATA Enum. PL Formos. p. 



Riibm tripliyllus THUNB. Fl. Jap. p. 215 ; HANCE in Journ. Bot. (1878) p. 

 105, et (1884) p. 42. 



HAB. Tamsui, Shizangau, Taiton. 



DISTRIB. Japan, Hongkong, China, Corea, east Australia. 



Rubus pectinellus MAXIM, in Mel. Biol. VHI. p. 374; FRANCE, et 

 SAVAT. Eiiurn. PL Jap. I. p. 122 ; HAYATA in Tokyo Bot. Mag. XX. p. 55 ; 

 HAYATA FL Mont. Formos. p. 



HAB. Tozan. 



DISTRIB. Southern parts of Japan and also recently found in Lusou. 



Rubus pentalobus HAYATA FL Mont. Formos. p. 80. Shrub, scandent 

 entirely villosely tomentose. Leaves long petiolate, tomentosely villose, 

 petioles 5-10 cm. long, blades cordately rounded in outline, 5-7 cm. in 



