scattered recurved prickles, and by having its sepals (leaf- 

 lets of the calyx) considerably longer than the petals. The 

 last character we imagine to have induced M. Thory to 

 think of referring it to cinnamomea, from which it certainly 

 is divided as widely by nature as any individual of the 

 genus. 



Andrews has given a figure of it in a most luxuriant 

 state under the name of lurida, by which it is known in the 

 nurseries. 



Busk 4-5 feet high, looking like the common Dog Rose, 

 but with rather slenderer branches. Branches naked round 

 purple waxen, the colour on the part next the son much 

 deeper: prickles scattered solitary equal hooked, of the 

 full-grown branches small, sometimes nearly straight, 

 recurved at the tip. Leaves spreading glaucous opaque 

 tinged with red : stipules smoothish naked linear, sometimes 

 dilated, ovate and recurved at the top, with midrib and the 

 base entirely crimson: petioles naked green underneath, 

 purplish above* thinly beset with very small crooked 

 prickles, flexuose: leaflets oblong, primordial ones generally 

 obovate or truncate, simply serrate, naked on both sides, 

 paler on the under. Flowers small solitary or gathered into 

 cymes of about three, according to the situation they grow 

 in, either of a deep or a faint red, flattish: bractes ovately 

 lanceolate purple or (in the manyflowered ones) of a lively 

 green, naked, near to or at a distance from the flowers. Pe- 

 duncle and tube of the calyx ovate, naked; sepals (leaflets of 

 the calyx) simple glandular and bristled, entire, longer than 

 the petals. Petals nearly entire flat, paler at the base. 

 Disk depressed nearly closing up the aperture of the faux. 

 Germens very shaggy, 15-20-25. Styles short distinct 

 shaggy protruded. Stigmas depressed. Fruit ovate scarlet, 

 with deciduous leaflets. Lindley MSS, 



