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diameter, slightly 5-lobed, rounded at the apex, Iwise cordate, lobes rounded, 

 irregularly denticulate, palinately 5-7 nerved, somewhat pilose above, villosely 

 tomeutose aud pallid l>eueath, veins prominent beneath, stipules laciniate, 

 13 mm. long. Flowers axillary, solitary or in pah's, pedunculate, ped- 

 uncles 1 cm. long, 2-3 bracteolate, bracteoles minute laciniate. Calyx- 

 lol>es ovate, laciiiiate at the apes, tomautose, 1 cm. long. Stones drupaceous. 

 HAB. Mt. Morrison, Bioritsu, Hakkeiriu. The present rubus is near 

 1L pectindlus MAXIM. ; but differs from it in having unarmed sepals and five 

 lolied leaves. The leaves are much more tomeutose, and somewhat 

 tulterculate on the upper surface. 



Rubus pungens CAMB. var. Oldhami MAX. -det. 



HAB. Central Mountain Eanges, by U. MOM, 1910. 



I am merely following Mr. G. KOIZUMI in referring this plant to the 

 al>ove species. It is, in my opinion, a little different from the Japanese 

 spe* 



Japan. 



Rubus randaiensis HAY ATA Materials for a Flora of Formosa p. 93. 

 Branches smooth, sftly tnneutose, terete, fusco-fulvesceut. Leaves long 

 petiolate, o-lobate, subcoivlate in outluie, obtusely acute at the apex, cordate 

 at the base,- 10 cm. long, 8 cm. broad, margin lobulately serrulate, lobules 

 sen-ate, terminal lobe ovate, 1 as long as the leaf, 6 cm. long, 3 cm. broad, 

 sinus between lobes obtuse, lateral lobes smaller, rounded at the 1> 

 5-uerved, rugose and puljescent above, densely albo-floccoso-toniento^e beneath, 

 veins and veiulets reticulately elevated, petioles 4 cm. long, villosely toraen- 



, stipules larger obloug-ovate, 18 mm. long, 5 mm. broad, broader at the 

 base, nearly embracing the stem. Bacemes short few-flowered, axillary or 

 terminal, bracteate, bracts large, wrapping the flower-buds, deciduous, 

 rounded, li c.u. long as broad, shortly dentato-laciniate at the apex, liirsute 

 outside, glabrous inside, 2-bracteolate, bracteoles obHquely roiuidly obovate, 

 8 mm. long, 6 mm. broad, rounded at the apex, sparingly shortly dentate, 

 pedicels short, 5 mm. log. Calyx villoso-txiientoss outside, shortly pubescent. 

 iusLle, cup concave, l>1jes acumiuately triangular, acumiuately and laciuiately 



