232 EOSACEJE. 



serrate at tlie apex, teeth 3 mm. long or subentire, 14 mm. long, 7 mm. 

 broad. Petals broadly rounded, shortly mucronate and rounded at the apex, 

 base acute. Stamens 5 mm. long, anthers oblong ; carpophore semiglobose, 

 long barbate, carpels nearly 1 mm. long, style 7 mm. long, stigma 2-lobate. 



HAB. Randaisau. 



Near R. diffusus, but differs from it in having more deeply lobed leaves 

 and not prickly branches and petioles. Also near R. lainanensis FOCKE 

 (in sched.) from which the present plant is easily distinguishable by elongate 

 denticulate stipules. 



Rubus retusipetalus HAYATA (PL XXVIH) Materials for a Flora of 

 Formosa p. 94. Branches slender, glabrous, angulately striate, spinose, 

 spines longitudinally complanate, dilated at the base, recurved, 2 mm. long. 

 Leaves ovately cordate or oblongo-ovate, 9 cm. long, 5 cm. broad, acuminate 

 at the apex, base cordate or truncately cordate, margin serrate, serras cuspi- 

 date, membranaceous, obscurely trinerved or pinninerved, primary lateral 

 veins 6-7, curved or nearly straight divaricate at an angle of 40, glabrous 

 above, glaucous beneath, aculeate on the costas and veins, petioles 3 cm. 

 long, sulcate above, aculeate beneath, stipules linear- filiformed, 1 cm. long, 

 1 mm. broad, inserted near the base of the petioles. Flowers at the axils 

 of the upper leaves, or terminal, racemose or solitary, long pedunculate, 

 peduncles 3 cm. long, bracts linear or filiformed. Calyx nearly flattened, 

 glabrous outside, velvety pubescent inside, cup nearly flattened 8 mm. in 

 diameter, lobes acuminately oblong, 1 cm. long, acumen terete 4 mm. long, 

 margin tomentose. Petals elongately obovate, 1 cm. long, 5 mm. broad, 

 roundly emarginate at the apex, cuneately narrowed at the base, slightly 

 hirsute downwards. Carpels -| mm. long, glabrous, styles 2 mm. long, base 

 hirsute, stigma oblique capitate. Carpophore nearly flattened, tomentose. 



HAB. Toyen: Kotosan, (No. 2675). 



Near JR. conduplicatus DUTHIE, but differs from it in having more or 

 less retused or emarginate petals. 



Rubus Rolfei VIDAL var. lanatus HAYATA Fl. Mont. Formos. p. 81. Small 

 shrub, erect densely lanate, at last glabrous. Leaves 5- or rarely 3-lobed 



