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ROSA Kamchatica: 8. nitens. 
Shining-leaved Kamchatka Rose. 
A a 
ICOSANDRIA POLYGYNIA. 
Nat. ord. ROSACEE vere. 
ROSA. Suprä vol. 1. fol. 46. 
Div. IT. Feroces. Rami tomento persistente vestiti, Fructus nudus. 
Lindl. ros. mon. p. 3. 
R. Kamchatica, aculeis infra stipularibus falcatis majoribus, foliis opacis. 
Lindl. 1. c. 
R. Kamchatica. Vent. cels, t.67. Ait. Kew. ed. alt. 3. 259. Pers. syn. 
2.47. Smith in Reesinl, Lindley in bot. reg. t. 419. Tratt. syn. bot. 
ser, 15, 
(8) nitens, foliis lucidis pallidè viridibus. 
Frutex erectus, ramosus, surculis parcè tomentosis, brevibus, rubris, un- 
dique aculeis setisque inequalibus, rectis, sub stipulis majoribus, consitus. 
Aculei ramorum ut in surculis. Folia Kamchatice, sed pallidè viridia, 
nitida, utrinque glaberrima, nervo medio subtus et petiolo pilosis, Flores 
leté carmosini, solitarii, sepalis integris, acuminatis, glandulosis. Fructus 
pyriformes pedunculique sparsim glandulosi. 
This remarkable variety of Rosa Kamchatica was sent 
from Holland, by Mr. A. C. Van Eeden, to the Horticultural 
Society, in 1821. Our drawing was made in the Chiswick 
garden in May last. 
It is quite as hardy and easy of cultivation as the type 
of the species; from which it is chiefly distinguished by its 
glossy naked leaves, redder flowers, and more erect mode 
of growth. In the falcate form of the prickles immediately 
below the stipules, and in their greater size, it remains true 
to the character assigned the species in the Rosarum Mo- 
nographia. 
M. Trattinnick is singularly unfortunate in his observa- 
tions upon this species. He shrewdly remarks, that it must 
not be confounded with R. rugosa of Thunberg; at the 
same time asserting that species to be the same as R. ferox 
of our gardens; although all the evidence of which we are 
in possession respecting it goes to prove directly the con- 
trary. He also adds, for the benefit, doubtless, of such of 
his countrymen as are not learned in English, that Mr. 
