^^^ LI. ROSACEA. (J. D. Hooker.) 365 



Sect. I. Styles distinct. 



* Sepals deciduous in fruit 



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\ a. involucrata, Roxb. JTort. Beng. 38 ; Fl. Ind. ii. 513 ; branchlets 

 and inflorescence densely tomentose, prickles straio-ht, flowers shortly pedicelled, 

 bracts large lanceolate, calyx-tube unarmed. Bon Prodr. 235 ; Bot. Reg. t. 

 739 ; Wight Ic. t. 234 ; Kurz For. Flor. Brit. Burnt, i. 440 ; Wall. Cat. 696 : 

 Crmn. in Bull. Soc. Bot. Belg. xiv. 140. R. Lyellii, Lindl. Monogr. Mos. 12, 



ifli ^''^P^^ ^- ^- ^^^- ^- Lindleyana, Tratinik Bos. i. 190. R. palustiis, Buck. 

 W. R. multiflora, Herb. Ham. 



. Bj the sides of streams of the Gakgetic Plain. Westward to Mt. Aboo in Mar* 



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TfAB and eastward to Bikma and along the lower Himalaya from Kumaon eastwards. 

 Mysore, Munro. 



A stout bush, erect or with arching subscandent branches ; prickles often in' sti- 

 puiar pairs, compressed. Leaves 3-4 in. ; leaflets 3-4 pair, IJ in. and less, elliptic or 

 J* ^oiig, acute or acuminate, finely serrate, shining above, glabrous on both surfaces or 

 tomentose on the under ; ptipnles small lacininte, Fhwers 2-3 in. diam , white, fra- 

 S^nt, solitary or in short corymbs, rarely axillary and longer pedicelled ; peduncles 

 ™ pedicels sometimes with glandular hairs ; bracts more or less glandular- serrate, 

 pecially below. Cali/x-tube obovoid ; lobes caudate-acuminate, quite entire, decidu- 

 *^* ^^^(fls retuse. Fruit globose, densely tomentose ; mass of stigmas discoid, ex- 

 erted ; achenes very many, i in. long. pale. — Except that one is described as scandent 

 ^cannoi, distinguish R, involucrata from R, Lyellii. It is the common rose of the 

 r^lT ?^^'"^ ^^^ ^^^^ o^ the Himalaya and the only really tropicnl species of India, 

 ^ndley s varieties hurmana, parvijolia, glabra, and acniifolia (in WalL Herb,) explain 

 emselves. Wallieh's specimen of involucrata rar. glabra is stated to come from 

 ^mountains of Pundua on the confines of Sylhet, I e, the Khasia Mts., which I 

 Soi A *^* for I found it in the Jheels only of Sylhet; and Blinkworth'shabitat 

 A p ^^ ^^ Sirinuggur probably applies to the Dheyra dhoon. Wallich who pro- 

 it^ >T. r>'^'^^^^" in Nipal describes it as a large climber in woods, possibly confounding 

 fn / '^oschata. Crepin hazards the conjecture that Lyellii is a hybrid between 

 ^olucrata and moschata, and regards it as a very doubtful plant, under which clr- 

 )i"^a^^*^^^ I have retiuned Eoxburgh's name of involucrata, which first appeared in 

 ^s Ut. Hort. Bot. Calc." in 18H. 



Dri tl *" ^^s^^l^JLaefolia, Boiss, FL Orient, ii. 677; tall, subscandent, 

 Pnckles hoolied, bristles C, leaflets broadly elliptic obtuse simply serrate and pe- 

 oies pubescent beneath or on "both surfaces^ flowers in few- or many-flowered 

 ^rymbs shortly pedicelled white, fruit very small globose. 



g|jjJ^5^RiSTAN ; alt. 5,000 ft., Br. Stewart, — Distkib. Afi'ghanisUn and Belu- 



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Trli h V^- ^ *^^°^°^*^" wild and cultivated Affghau rose, ascending to 10,000 ft., of 

 Brr K gHthered many specimens, and which no doubt extends within the 



'Msh frontier, though the nearest hitherto detected habitat is that given above. 



■^L -^'■i Luuugii lae nearest xiiluuilu uclculcva iioi- 



1^^^^^® ^fie specimens have very small foliage and flowers.— A shrub often 10 f t. ; 

 \btk^ ^''^^ **^^^* ^^ "^^"^y unequal stout compressed prickles oftnn in pairs; bninch- 

 DuL^**^^^ Ijf^neath petioles and calyx covered usually with a rather furfuraceous 

 J y«5®nce mixed on the petioles and calyx with minute prickles and glands. Leaves 

 tiol *°] ' ^^^^^ts l,§ in., rarely glabrous above, sessile, nerves beneath indistinct ; pe- 

 tarvf ^^' stipules broad, with glandular ovate free portion. Flowers from soli- 



y to many in a short crowded corymb, i-l^ in. diam.. fragrant; pedicels shorty 

 oose^^^ ^^ pubescent ; bracts ovate -lanceolate, densely glandular. Calya; tiche glo- 

 toenf^^^^^^ smooth and glabrous; lobes ovate-lanceolate, caudate-acumiuate, to- 

 ke?^ f ^.^ciduous; tips pubescent, sometimes dilated. Fruit smooch, { in. diam.; 

 0^ 8»^*gnias very large; achenes i-^ in. long.— The above description is of the 

 1; "^^s^ate of the plant. Stewards specimens have more obovate green leaflets 



• long, faintly puberulous beneath, and solitary flowers barely 1 in. diam. 



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