Mli. J. O.DAKEu's AlONOURAPll OF BlllXiSn EOSES. 223 



10. R. PULVEUULENTA, M. Bieb, Frutex mediocris, ramis elongatis 

 arcuatis, aculeis sa^pe subinaequalibus, majoribus falcatis robustis, 

 foliolis obovatis copiose duplicato-serratis, supra cito glabris, infra 

 tenuiter pubescentibus prorsus glandulosis, floribus 1 vel paucis, pe- 

 dunculis nudis vel raro aciculatis, sepalis ascendentibus subpersiston- 

 tibus dorso nudis vel leviter glandulosis, majoribus copiose pinuatis, 

 stylis hirsutis, fructibus nudis serotinis ovato-urceolatis vel rotundatis 

 discis mediocribus instructis. 



R. PULVERULENTA, M. Bieb. FL Taur.'Cauc. I p. 399 (1808); Lindl. 

 Mon. p. 93; DC. Prodr. ii. p. 617. 



R. iNODORA, Fries, Novit, i. p. 9 (1814) ; Herb. Norrn. x. 51, non Auct. 

 Angl, 



R. INODORA y, Borrer, in Brit. FL 3rd edit. p. 235 (non a et /3). 



R. Klvku, Besser, Hort. Crem. 1816, p. 118; 31. Bieb. FlTaur.-Cauc. 



ui. p. 346; Tratt. Mon. ii. p. 70; Wim. et Grab. FL Sil. ii. p. 89; 

 Gren. Jura, p. 248; Deseff, Mon, p. 100, E.isic. 29; Billot, Exs. 

 1665. 



R. SEPiuM/3. Klukij, Beut. Cat. Gen, p. 73. 



R. GRAXDiFLORA^ Wallv. Ann. Bot. p. 66 ; Roth, Enum. p. 451. 



R. BALSAMEA, Besser, Cat. Hort. Crem. 1815. 



M, 



ii. p. 617. 



A taller and stronger busli than micrantlia, with a similar habit. 

 Prickles uniform, or with a few setaceous aciculi intermixed, the 

 larger ones 3-4 lines long, robust, falcate. Well-developed leaves 

 of the barren shoot 3-3 1 inches long, with 7 leaflets, the terminal 

 one obovate-oblong, 15-18 lines long by three-quarters as broad, 

 or rather less, thicker in texture than in micrantlia^ soon quite 

 naked above, slightly on the ribs only but with glands scattered 

 all over the surface beneath ; the upper serratures sharp, deep, 

 and copiously compound ; the petiole densely setose, slightly 

 hairy, with several unequal aciculi. Bracts 3-4 lines broad, naked 

 on the back, or nearly so. Flowers usually 1-3 ; the peduncle 

 4-6 lines long, usually naked; the calyi-tube oblong, naked. 

 Sepals 8-9 lines long, naked or slightly glandular on the back, 

 ascending after the petals fall, subpersistent, the main ones copi- 

 ously pinnate. Flowers pink, 15-18 lines across. Styles hairy- 

 Fruit ovate-urceolate, as large as that of cantna^ and with a similar 

 disk, not ripening till October or late in September. 



This is very near micrantha, but is a stronger plant, quite as 

 glandular, but larger in its leaves and flowers, with hairy styles, 



