47. rosacea : bose^;. 253 



flora, Benth. (Fl. Hongk. p. 407), collected by Hinds, Crepin has 

 labelled " an B. moschatce, var. ? vel B. Lucice, var. ? " Hence it 

 is evident the limits of these species are not easily defined. • 



13. Rosa multiflora, Thunb. Fl. Jap. p. 214; DC. Prodr. ii. 

 p. 598 ; Lindl. Bos. Monogr. p. 119 ; Baker et 8. Moore in Journ. 

 Linn. Soc. xvii. p. 382 ; Branch, in Mem. Soc. Sc. Nat. Cherbourg, 

 xxiv. p. 216 ; Crepin in Bull. Soc. Bot. Belg. xiii. p. 250, et xviii. 

 p. 278, et in Comptes-rendus Soc. Bot. Belg. xxv. 2. p. 13 ; Hook, 

 f. Fl. Brit. Ind, ii. p. 364; Bot. Mag. t. 1059; Bot. Beg. 



t. 425. 



Rosa Linkii, Dehnhardl, Rivist. Kapolit. i. 3. p. 164 ( Walp. Rep. ii. 

 p. 12), exRegel, Tent. Ros. Monogr. p. 84. 



Shingking : Chienshau (Boss I); Shantung (Maingay !) ; 

 Chekiang: Ningpo (Cooper !); Kia> t gsi : Kiukiang (Shearer !) ; 

 Fokien: Amo >j (Fortune, 51) ; Formosa : Kantow, nearTamsui 

 (Hancock !) ; Hupeh : Ichang and Patung districts (A. Henry !) ; 

 Szechuen : Chungking (Bourne !) ; Cobean Archipelago : 

 Port Hamilton (Wilford, 699 !). Mus. Brit.; Herb. Kew. 



Japan, and recently discovered by Vidal in North Luzon, 

 Philippines. 



14. Rosa pimpinellifolia, Linn. Sp. PI. ed. 1, p. 491 ; DC. 



Prodr. ii. p. 608 ; Bunge, Enum. PL Chin. Bor. p. 26 ; Lindl. 

 Bos. Monogr. p. 50 ; Crepin in Bull. Soc. Bot. Belg. xviii. p. 376, 

 et in Comptes-rendus Soc. Bot. Belg. xxv. 2. p. 14 ; Begel, Tent. 

 Bos. Monogr. p. 20 (excl. syn. R. gymnocarpa, Nutt.). 



Chihli: near Peking, cult. (Bunge !), sparingly amongst the 

 ruins of the summer palace (Hancock !) ; Shingking : west of 

 Saihoo, cult. (Boss !). Herb. Kew. 



"Western Europe to Mandshuria. 



We have seen none save cultivated specimens from China 

 proper, and they are all of the yellow-flowered variety, if variety it 

 be, and probably the same as Bosa xanthina, Lindl. Crepin 

 has labelled one of these specimens Bosa pimpinellifolia, var. 

 densiflora, and refers to the same as differing only in the colour 

 of its flowers from B. pimpinellifolia, var. platyacantha. 



15. Rosa rugosa, Thunb. Fl. Jap. p. 213; DC. Prodr. ii. 

 p. 607 ; Lindl. Bos. Monogr. p. 5, et in Journ. Hort. Soc. Lond. 

 iii. p. 318 ; Sieb. et Zucc. Fl. Jap. i. p. 66, t. 28 ; Debeaux, Fl. 



