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in length, very slightly shorter than the calyx-lobes ; filaments filiform, sharply 

 pointed at the apex, glabrous; anther ovato-elliptical, cordate at the base. 

 Ovary-cluster globose, about 3 mm. across, sessile ; ovaries minute, numerous, 

 crowded on a globose receptacle, sessile, reniform -lunate, laterally compressed, 

 glabrous, but pubescent above in the ventral suture ; style filiform, flexuous ; 

 stigma terminal, dilated. Fruit scarlet, ovoid-globose, about 7-10 mm. 

 long, accompanied with dried filaments and more or- less enlarged reflexed 

 persistent calyx ; carpels numerous, sacculent, obovoid-elliptical, about 4-5 

 mm. long ; stone hard, obovately reniform- elliptical, isabel- brown, finely 

 foveolate-rugose, about 2 mm. long. 



Nom. Jap. Miyama-momidziichigo. 



Hah. Prov. Tosa : Mt. Tebako (T. Makino ! July 1885 : 7. Doi ! Aug. 

 13, 1890, Aug. 11, 1892; R. Yalabel herb. >Sc. Coll. Imp. Univ. Tokyo, 

 Aug. 8, 1888) ; Prov. Iyo : Mt. Ishidzuchi (R. Yalabe ! herb. 1. c. Aug. 9, 

 1888 ; K. Okudaira ! Aug. 1892, June 25, 1897 ; Z. Umemura ! Aug. 18, 

 1897). 



A rare species, its leaves bearing some resemblance to those of certain map- 

 les. It is usually growing in shady places in the forest on mountain districts. 



Rubus trifidus Thunb. var. tomentosus Makino var. nov. 



Stem and leaves softly tomentose. Teeth of leaves semiorbiculato-ovate, 

 minutely mucronate ; stipules linear or linear-lanceolate, acuminate. Flower 

 shortly pedicellate, about 3j cm. in diameter. Calyx-lobes ova to-lanceolate, 

 attenuated above, tomentose. Petals 5, patent, white, orbicular, rounded 

 and often subemarginate at the apex, subunguiculate. Stamens numerous, 

 glabrous. 



Nom. Jap. Birodo-kadziichigo. 



Hob. Tosa {T. Makino ! 1885), Ohama in Hata-gori (T. Makino ! Aug. 

 10, 1889), Sakawa, cult. (T. Makino ! 1892). 



It grows near sea-side, and is distinguished by its downy habit, which 

 reminds of that of Rubus corchorifolius Linn. fil. 



Rubus rosaefolius Sm. «. tropicus Maxim, in Mel. biol. VIII. 

 p. 388 ; Hance in Journ. Bot. 1878, p. 10. 

 a. genuinus Makino. 

 Elate shrub, prickly. Fruit globose, scarlet. 



