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furnished with a few small prickles towards the base ; lateral veins more or 

 less regularly arranged, erect- patent, each reaching to the teeth ; veinlets 

 very finely anastomosing ; petiole slender, 1-4J cm. long, pubescent and loosely 

 armed with prickles, slenderly canaliculate in front, slightly dilated at the 

 base ; stipules inserted at the base of the petiole, linear to lanceolate or 

 sometimes subulate-linear, acuminate, entire, pubescent and glandular outside, 

 ciliated, with a midrib and obscure fine veins, 4-8 mm. long, persistent. 

 Flower about 2J-3Jcm. in diam., terminating the branches; peduncle 

 filiform, pubescent. Calyx 5-partite with obtuse sinuses, pubescent, and 

 glandular at the tube ; the tube short and broad, truncate at the base, the 

 centre of the base concave externally but conical internally ; lobes patent and 

 then reflexed, ovate-lanceolate caudately acuminate, ciliated, with vertical 

 veins, about 10 mm. long in flower but after anthesing increasing in size. 

 Petals 5, patent, ovate-orbicular to elliptical, entire or with often irregular 

 margin, rounded at the apex, shortly attenuated at the base and sometimes 

 obscurely subunguiculate, 14-20 mm. long, 8-13 mm. broad. Stamens 

 numerous, inserted to the throat of the broad calyx-tube ; filament filiform, 

 unequal in length ; anther ovate-elliptical, cordate at the base. Ovary-cluster 

 ovoid, with an erect and pubescent stalk. Ovaries numerous, minute, close- 

 placed, lunato-ovate, glandular on the back, sessile and intermixed with 

 hairs ; style terminal, filiform, straight, glabrous, more or less clavate towards 

 the terminal stigma. 



Ruhus rascef otitis var. minor Makino in sched. herb. Sc. Cull. Imp. 

 Univ. Tokyo. 



Nom. Jap. Hime-baraichigo. 



Bab. Prov. Tosa : Sakawa (T. Makino ! 1885, May 15, 1889, Nov. 

 3892), Mt. Yokogura (T. Makino ! May 6, 1889, 1892, May 1893), Mt. 

 Kuishi (T. Makino ! Oct. 7, 1892), Takaoka-gori (Y. Yoshinagal herb. Sc. 

 Coll. Imp. Univ. Tokyo) ; Prov. Iyo : Nametoko {Z. Umemura ! May 14, 

 1896) ; Prov. Musashi : Tokyo (Herb.! Sc. Coll. Imp. Univ. Tokyo.) ; Prov. 

 Idzu : Mt. Amagi (8. Okubo ! herb. 1. c. June 9, 1883) ; Prov. Yamato : 

 Kasuga-yama (Z. Matsumura\ herb. I.e. July lb, 1883). 



This form is much smaller than the type. The pubescent hairs bear no 

 gland, but the under surface of leaves and the outside of the calyx-tube are 

 disparsed with minute globular glands. The prickles are often more or less 

 curved upwards. 



/?. sorbifolius (Maxim.) Makino. 



More densely crinite with patent and hispidly hirsute glandular-hairs on 



