50 



Rubus roscefoHus Sm.; Willd. Sp. PI. II. p. 1080 ; Pern Syn. PI. II. 

 p. 50 ; Spreng. Syst. Veg. II, p. 527 ; Seringe in DO. Prodr. II, p. 556 ; 

 Blume Bijdrag. p. 1107 ; Roxb. Fl. Ind. IF. p. 518 ; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. I, 

 1, p. 375; Kurz Fl. Brit. Burm. I, p. 439; Hook. Icon. PI. tab. 349; F. 

 Muell. Fragm. Phytogr. Austral. IV, p. 32 ; Benth. Fl. Austral. II, p. 431 ; 

 Clarke in Journ. Linn. Soc. XV, p. 140: Hook. fil. Fl. Brit, Ind. II. p. 

 341 ; Hance in Journ. Bot. 1884, p. 42 ; Bot. Mag. tab. 6970 ; Forbes et 

 Hems), in Journ. Linn. Soc. XXIII. p. 237 ; Henry in Trans. Asiat, Soc. 

 Jap. XXIV. Suppl. p. 40. 



Rubus pinnatus Willd. 1. c. p. 1081; Pers. 1. c.; Apreng. I.e.; Seringe 

 in DC. 1. c.; Ait. Hort. Kew. ed. 2, III. p. 270. 



Rubus javanicus Blume 1. c. p. 1108. 



Rubus rosceflorus Koxb. 1. c. p. 519. 



Rubus asper Don. Prodr. Fl. Nep. p. 234; Seringe in DC. 1. c. p. 558. 



Rubus sikhimeiisis O. Kuntze MSS. ex Hook. fil. 



Rubus paniculatus Clarke 1. c. non Sm. ex Hook. fil. 



Rubies Eglanteria Tratt. 



Nom. Jap. O-baraicMgo. 



Bab. Prov. Tosa: Koyaika (T. Makino \ Oct. 19, 1895), Iburi (T. 

 Makino ! Oct. 25, 1895), Godai-san near Kochi (T. Makino ! July 1892, Sept. 

 29, 1892, May, 1893). 



It is not uncommonly found in the southern parts of the province of Tosa 

 in the island of Shikoku. Majority of my specimens are sterile, but those 

 collected on Godai-san near Kochi, quoted above, bear red fruits. 



b. minor Makino. 



About 2-6 decim. in height. Rhizome stout-filiform, widely creeping, 

 rooting. Stem erect, slender, terete, flexuous, puberulent, very laxly armed 

 with prickles ; branches slender, pubescent, loosely armed with prickles ; 

 prickles mainly more or less curved upwards or straight, patent perpendicu- 

 larly to the stem, narrow, laterally compressed, sharply pointed, decurrent 

 at the base above and below. Leaves alternate, simply odd-pinnate with 

 5 to 11 leaflets, 3-1-18 cm. long including the petiole and 2-9J cm. 

 wide ; rachis narrow, pubescent, loosely armed with sharp prickles which 

 are patent and a little curved upwards or downwards ; leaflets thinly 

 pubescent on both surfaces and moreover minutely glandular beneath, 

 lateral ones very shortly petiolnlate or sessile, but usually larger in size and 

 distinctly petiolulate in the odd one, lanceolate to ovate-lanceolate, acumi- 

 nate, usually obtuse-rounded at the base, but sometimes acute in the odd 

 one, sharply duplicato-inciso-serrate, thinly chartaceous ; midrib sometimes 



