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CRUCIFERE.E. 
LEPIDIUM Linn. 
Lepidium ruderale Linn. Sp. PI. ( 1753) 1)45; Hook. f. & Andr. in Hook. f. PI. 
Brit. Lid. 1 (1872) ICO. 
Luzon, Province of Cagayan, Tngnegarao ( 18S Merrill) June 8, 1902. In dry, 
open, waste places, a weed, apparently introduced, but well established. Not 
[ireviously reported from the Philippines.' Europe. Asia, North America, and 
Australia. 
CARDAMINE Linn. 
Cardamine parviflora Linn. Sp. PI. ed. 2 (1703) 914; DC. Prodr. 1 (1824) 
152; Porbes & Hemsl. Journ. Linn. Soc. Bot. 23 (1880) 44. 
Luzon, District of Lepanto, Balili (4009 Merrill) November 5, 1905, in a coffee 
plantation, damp shaded soil at about 1,000 m. ; Province of Benguet, Baguio 
(5840 Elmer) March, 1904, in open damp soil along streams at about 1,400 m. 
The first species of the genus to be reported from the Philippines, apparently 
native, and not distinguishable from the widely distributed Cardamine parviflora. 
Linn., which e.vteiids from North America to Europe, northern Africa, and tem- 
perate Asia soiilluvard to Pbrmosa. 
ROSACE.E. 
RUBUS Linn. 
Rubus copelandi Merrill sp. nov. 
An ascending plant 1 to 1.8 m. high, with trifoliate leaves and solitary 
axillary white flowers, or sometimes tw'O or more pedicels from the upper 
axils, the stems, petioles, and jiedicels with usually slendei', recurved 
spines, and slender spine-like capitellate hairs. iStenis terete, greenish 
or reddish, not at all pubescent, the s])ines and intermixed capitellate 
hairs rather numerous. Leaves alternate, trifoliate, the petioles about 
3 cm. long, spiny and with capitellate stiff hairs, the stipules ovate- 
lanceolate to oblong ovate, acuminate, nearly 1 cm. long, foliaceous, 
capitellate hairy; leaflets ovate to elliptical-ovate, acuminate. Arm, brittle 
when dry, glabrous on both surfaces, except the somewhat pubescent 
midrib above, ]>aler beneath, 4 to 7 cm. long, 2 to 4 cm. wide, rather 
alfruptly acuminate, the base broad, rounded, that of the lateral leaflets 
often inequilateral, the margins dentate or bidentate, the teeth small, 
mucronate acuminate; nerves about 10 on each side of the midrib, rather 
proniinent, parallel, the midrib and often the lateral nerves with retrorse 
spines beneath, petiolules of the terminal leaflets al)out 1.5 cm. long, 
of the lateral ones 1 to 2 mm. Flowers w'hite, 2.5 to 3 cm. in diameter, 
the pedicels 1 cm. long or less, spiny and with capitellate hairs. Calyx 
cinere(ms pubescent or pulierulent, the lobes with feAV slender spines and 
capitellate hairs, ovate lanceolate, acuminate, often 1 cm. long, 5 mm. 
wid(! or less. Petals elliptical, rounded, somewhat narrowed below, 
about 12 mm. long, S min. wide, distinctly veined. >Staniens indefinite; 
