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hterkm.] li. rosaceje. (J. D. Hooker.) 363 



Ceylon, Sir J. G. McKenzie ; Adam's Peak, Jhois. 



Very similar to P. diandrum in stature, habit, foliage, &c., but leaflets with fewer 

 teeth, petiole and midrib of leaflets underneath -with flexuous hairs ; bracteoles orbi- 

 cular, clawed, eiliate ; calyx segments slightly hairy or scabrid on the baclt ; fruit 

 10 m., trapezoid, with short M'ings and a bony endocarp. The flowers are probably 

 polygamous ; I find 12 imperfect ones in one bud, and fewer perfect, but my mate- 

 nals are very insufficient. — This is a very little known plant, the only specimen I have 

 >f^V^ ^^^ ^: ^cKenzie's (in Herb. Benth.). Gardner described it from some found 

 t*y Mr. Alwis. Dr. Thwaites says that he has searched for it in vain. Like Ayri- 

 ^^n, the genus is unknown in the Indian Western Peninsula. 



4- P- longrlfolia, BertoL Misc. Dec. xxii. 14, t. 1 (Sakgitisorba) ; tall, 

 glabrous, leaflets petiolulate linear-oblong crenate with often accessory leaflets 

 ^t the base of the petioliiles, heads cylindriC; stamens 4, fruit short 4-winged. 



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Khasu Mts., alt. 5-6000 ft., Griffith, &c. 



uootstock creeping, stout. Stem 2-4 ft., strict, much branched above. Leaves 



A-f^^'? leaflets 1-3 in., rigid, base subcordate oblique, under surface reticulate; 



petiole stiff, erect ; stipules very variable, of radical leaves subulate, of cauline folia- 



^118 fati-shaped and toothed or produced and pinnate, tip rounded. Heads l-2i in., 



^"icled, On slender stiff peduncles. Flowers purple, hermaphrodite; bracteoles ob- 



iigt fimbriate. Calyx-tube ellipsoid, 4-angled, compressed, pubescent, segments in 



Pposite pairs of which one is broader than the other, thick, and thickened towards 



aetip which is notched with a mucro in the notch and 3-nerved, back with a few 



huii \^^^^^^^^ with slender filaments. Style filiform, elongate, stigma capitate. 



broader than long, ^ in, long, wings membranous. 



leaff t ^' ?*'*g"«i»orba, Linn. ; Boiss. Fl. Onent. ii. 733 ; sparsely Iiairy, 

 ^nete petiolulate orbicular deeply toothed, heads globose, stamens about 20, 

 ^t trapezoid acute at both ends. 



j^^AzuHisTAN (N. W. of the Punjab), alt. 5-8000 ft., Stewart.— Dist&ib. Persia 



westward to the Atlantic, N. Asia. 



opw/^ ^"^erect or ascending, leafy, with lax flaccid hairs. Leaves 3-6 in. ; leaflets 

 tiX B? J alternate, A-f in., membranous, base rounded, petiolules very short ; pe- 

 ^ot to d'ff ■ ^^^^^ panicled.— I have seen flowering specimens only, which seem 

 ; ^ "^^ ^Q any particular from the European plant. 



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Wflt'f^*' sarmentose 

 corymbose, wl, +„ ,£ii . 



Leaves pinnate ; 



Ld *«^oid or pitcher-shaped; mouth contracted; lobes leafy, imbricate in 

 calvT /v"^ ^> J"^^- Stamem many, inserted on the dislc. _ Bisk coating the 

 manv ^^' *^^ ^^^ closing its mouth by its thickened margin, silky. Carpels 

 conr,;; ^^""^^y few, in the bottom of the calyx-tube ; styles subterminal, free or 



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Achenes coriaceous or 



W ^r^^®' stignia thickened: ovule 1, pendulous. Acnenes coriaceous or 

 aJ;-^^^^^^ ia the fleshy calyx-tube.— Distrib. N. temjf. regions rare in 

 fchW ®^^^nding into Abyssinia, India, and Mexico; species, about 30 very 



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tluni ;, .^^°^*ng roses are so commonly cultirated by the natives of India, that I 

 * " right to give a svr.r.n«;« nf t.hftm taken from Brandis' " Forest Flora," 199. ■ 



give a synopsis of them taken from Brandis 



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