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cent. Calyx funnel-shaped, about 4 mm long, the lobes 6, 
lanceolate, acuminate, 2 mm long, the alternating petals oblong 
to oblong-obovate, thinner, obtuse, villous, 1 to 1.5 mm long. 
Stamens 18 or 21 ; filaments 3 to 5 mm long, slightly villous 
below, glabrous above; anthers 1 mm long. Ovary narrow, 
densely villous, tapering above into the style which is densely 
villous below and glabrous above, the ovary and style about 5 
mm long. 
Luzon, Subprovince of Bontoc, Bauco, Vanoverbergh 2820, April 4, 1913, 
in forests, altitude about 1,500 meters. 
A characteristic species, recognizable by its eglandular leaves which 
are comparatively small and few-nerved, and its rather congested, pan- 
iculate, short inflorescences which are borne on the larger branches below 
the leaves, not on the ultimate branchlets. 
RUBUS Linnaeus 
RUBUS VANOVERBERGH 1 1 sp. nov. § Malachobatus, Alceaefolii. 
Frutex scandens, 2 ad 3 m altus, ramulis petiolisque dense 
pubescentibus, parce aculeatis; foliis suborbicularibus ad orbi- 
culari-reniformibus, usque ad 9 cm longis, chartaceis, pallidis, 
late et obscurissime 3- vel 5-lobatis, denticulatis, supra subglabris, 
subtus leviter ciliato-pilosis ; inflorescentiis axillaribus, solitariis 
vel fasciculatis, racemosis, 3 ad 5 cm longis, paucifloris, dense 
fulvo-villosis, sepalis lanceolatis, acuminatis, petalis orbicularis, 
6 mm longis. 
A scandent shrub 2 to 3 m high. Branchlets and petioles 
densely pubescent with soft, elongated, rather pale-brownish 
hairs, and sparingly aculeate with short, straight or curved spines 
less than 1 mm long. Leaves simple, suborbicular to orbicular- 
reniform, chartaceous, pale when dry, 4 to 8 cm long, about as 
wide, the base very broadly cordate, the apex rounded, obscurely, 
broadly, and shallowly 3- or 5-lobed, the margins sharply den- 
ticulate, dull, the upper surface glabrous or slightly pubescent 
along the nerves, the lower surface sparingly villous on the nerves 
and reticulations, with very few minute spines on the main 
nerves, the nerves about 5 from the base, radiate, straight, prom- 
inent, the reticulations very distinct; petioles 3 to 4 cm long; 
stipules falling early, lanceolate, 6 mm long, somewhat laciniate 
at the apex, the divisions few, about 2 mm long. Inflorescence 
axillary, solitary or somewhat fascicled, racemose, 3 to 5 cm long, 
densely pale-fulvous villous, few-flowered, the bracteoles oblong, 
pubescent, 8 mm long divided to about the middle into slender 
segments. Calyx densely fulvous, the pedicels short, the seg- 
