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LOWEA* berberifólia. 
Berberry-leaved Lowea. 
ICOSANDRIA POLYGYNIA. 
Nat. ord. Rosacez. 
LOWEA.— Folia simplicia exstipulata. Aculei seepiùs compositi. 
Cetera Rose. 
Lowea berberifolia. 
Rosa simplicifolia. Salisb. hort. allert. 359. Parad. Lond. 101. Olivier 
voyage 5. 49. abl. t. 43. 
R. berberifolia. Pallas in nov. act. Petr. 10. 379. t. 10. f. 5. Willd. 
sp. pl. 2. 1063. Ait. Kew. ed. alt. 3. 258. Smith in Rees in l. 
Redouté ros. 1. 27. t. 2. Lindley Rosarum monogr. p. 1. ed. gall. p. 23. 
Decand. prodr. 2. 602. Spreng. syst. 2. 546. Wallroth monogr. p. 25. 
This rare plant is a native exclusively of a few districts in the 
north of Persia, and of the desert of Songari in Chinese Tartary. 
From the latter place we possess specimens collected by Shankin, 
an officer employed by the Russian government in surveying the 
province; and of the former, the plate that accompanies this article 
is a representation. It was taken from a plant that flowered in 
August 1828, in the Garden of the Horticultural Society, where it 
had been raised from seed sent home by Sir Henry Willock. 
The Persian plant differs in some respects from the Songarese 
one, especially in being more glaucous ; and the plants raised from 
the Persian seeds of Mr. Willock varied among each other in several 
slight particulars, — none of which, however, were of any interest in 
a Botanical point of view. 
The two most important topics connected 
to its genus, and, secondly, to its cultivation. 
no more appears to be known now than was kno 
with it relate, firstly, 
In the latter respect 
wn upon its first 
Rev. Mr. Lowe, travelling Bachelor of 
tleman now resident in Madeira, from 
t island we expect important results. 
* Named in compliment to the 
the University of Cambridge; a gen 
whose Botanical investigations of tha 
