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corJately orbicular, 3-5 cm. in diameter, lobes rounde:! or obtuse, irregularly 

 denticul ite, dense lanate on both surfaces, at last glabrous above, prominently 

 tubereulate witliin veinlets, densely albo- or ferrugineo- lanate beneath, petioles 

 2-3 cm. long, stipules ovate, lacerate, 12 mm. long. Flowers 2-3-clusterei 

 at the apex of branchlets or subaxillary, 2-3-bracteate at the base of calyx, 

 bracts larger, truncate, lacerate, 9 mm. long as broad, submembranaceous. 

 Calyx turbinate 1] cm. long, lobes ovate, 9 mm. long, acuminate, outside 

 villose, inside pubescent, thick. Fruits not yet known. 



HAB. Seizan, Mt. Morrison. 



The present variety differs from the type in liaviug more densely woolly 

 leaves and much larger flowers. 



DISTRIB. Type : the Philippine islands. 



*Rubus rossefolius SMITH. ; DC. Prodi-. IT. p. 556 ; HOOK. Ic. PL t. 349 ; 

 HOOK. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. H. p. 341 ; HAXCE in Joum. Bot. (1878) p. 10, et 

 (1884) p. 42 ; MAXIM, in Mel. Biol. \TL. p. 387 ; FORBES et HE.MSL. Ind. Fl. 

 Sin. I. p. 237 ; DIELS. Fl. Cent. Chin. p. 399 ; HENRY List PI. Formos. p. 

 40 ; MATSUM. in Tokyo Bot. Mag. XVI. p. 3 ; MATSUM. et HAY ATA Enum. PL 

 Formos. p. 123. 



Rubus ckinensls SER. in DC. Prodi*. H. p. 557. 



HAB. Ivelung, Taitjcho, Bokusekikaku, Bankinsing. 



DISTRIB. In the warm regions of China, common in India. 



RubllS shinkoensis HAYATA (PI. XXLX.) Materials for a Flora of 

 Formosa p. 95. Branches terete, subglabrous, straight, spiuose, spines short 2 

 mm. long, straightly curved, rubescent, narrowe:! at the base, (cicatrices of spines 

 oblong, 4 mm. long, 1 mm. broad), ramulose, branchlets divaricate straight, 

 pubescent, leaf-buds perulate, perules ovate, entire, obscurely dentate or slightly 

 laciniate, subglabrous, slightly pubescent at the apex, 1 cm. long or shorter. 

 Leaves elongately ovate, 7 cm. long, 3 cm. broad, acuminate at the apex, 

 slightly cordate at the base, serrulate or duplicately serrulate, cliartaceo- 

 mernbranaceous, trinervecl, 3-lobed, central-lobe ovately acuminate, basal lobes 



* The Formosan species is a little different from the Japanese plant ; it demands further 

 investigation to decide which of the two is really identical with the type of the named species. 



