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LI, EOSACEiG. (J. D. Hooker.) 



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•* Sepals persistent in fruit, 



3. a. macropbylla, Lindl Monogr. Itos, 35, t. 6 ; prickles straight or 

 0, glandular and pubescent or not, leaflets elliptic-ovate acuminate or ..cute 

 finely serrate, bracts large, flowers solitary or corymbose red, sepals very long 



* tips filiform often dilated and serrate. Brandis For, Flor, 203 ; WalL Plant* 

 As. Ear, ii. 19, t. 117 ; Cat. 690 ; Dmi Prodr. 235 ; Crepin in Bull. Soc. Sot 

 Belg. xiii. 284, xiv. 167. R Hoffmeisteri and Gulielmi Waldemarii, A7o/z*cA 

 in iteis. Pr. Waldem. Bot, 153, t. 7, 8. R. Hookeriana, B&'tol Misc. Bot 

 xxiv. 14, t. 1. 



Temperate Himalaya, from Mubree, alt 3500-10,000 ft. to Sikkim, alt 

 8-10,000 ft.— DiSTRiB. China. 



Erect ; prickles straight or slightly curved, with broad dilated bases. Leaves 

 2-8 in. ; leaflets ^2 in., usually pubescent beneath, base acute rarely rounded ; pe- 

 tiole pubescent ; stipules large, broad, spreading. Flowers 1-3^ in, diam., bright red, 

 peduncles pedicels and calyx usually very bristly and glandular ; bracts foliaceous, 

 oblong or lanceolate, glandular on the margin. Calyx-tuhe j^\^m,\ lobes 1-2 m., 

 persistent. Petals broadly obcordate. Fruit sometimes 2 in. long ; styles hairy, eX- 

 Berted ; achenes large, often | in. long, few or many. 



Var. minor, Lindl. I.e. ; leaflets ^in, often obtuse, fliowers 1-1^ in. diam, 



Vae. Hookeriana\ nearly unarmed, leaves very pubescent, peduncles and calyx 

 hardly glandular. E. Hookeriana, Wall Cat. 691, not of Bertol. E. torulosa, Wall 

 MSS. 



4. &. Egrlanterla, Linn.; DC. Prodr. ii. 607; erect, tranches with 

 straight prickles, brancUets prickly and l)ristly or naked pubescent, rarely gla* 

 brous, leaflets deeply doubly-glandular-serrate, hairy and glandular beneath> 

 flowers ff^w yellow, calyx-tube hemispheric or globose. R. lutea, Mill ; Bom* 

 Flm\ Orient ii. 671 ; Bot. Mag. t. 363 ; Brandis For. Flor. 201. R. bicolor, 





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rier parts of the inner Himalaya, from Kishtwar westward and in WkstbbN 

 *, alt. 8-11,000 ft. —DiSTKiB. Affghanistan and westward to Asia Minor, ana 



Drier 

 Tibet, 

 northward to Siberia. 



A small bush, very leafy; prickles slender, much compressed, pale. Le<^^ 

 li-3in., leaflets 2-4 pair, i-| in. ; petiolulate, elliptic-obovate or orbicular, obtuse 

 or apiculate, rather membranous, glabrous or sparsely hairy above; petiole pubes- 

 cent and glandular ; stipules broad, free portion half ovate, toothed.^ Fh^^^ 

 2-2|- in. diam. ; pedicel often glabrous ; bracts ovate-lanceolate, long-acuminate, glan- 

 dular. Calyx'tuhe glabrous, unarmed or prickly ; lobes long-acuminate, tomentose, 

 persistent, entire or with marginal laciniae ; tips usually dilated. Petals obcordate, 

 variable in depth of colour. 



5. B, Webbiana. Wall Cat. 683 ; erect, prickles pale 



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bristly, sepals exceeding the ptals, fruit ovoid or globose. 

 t. 42 ; Cre^n in Bull Soc. Bot. Belq. xiii, 274 ; Brandis 



usually glan^»j]?r 



Boyle 



Lilaris, Bei^tol Misc. xxii. 15, t. 3. R. pimpinellifolia, Hi 



alt. 



Drier inner Himalaya, from Kashmir to Kumaon « 



6-13,500 ft. 



Glabrous, or with pubescent petioles and leaves beneath ; glan^"!^^^^^'.^®, P^^ 



bases, yellow. Leaves ^2 in. ; leaflets 2-5 pair, j-f In., rare] ^ ^'^^'^^'atfi- entire toT*«W« 

 the usually rounded base, rarely pubescent ; stipules small. 



diam., usually solitary. Calyx globose or ovoid, often densely bristly, rarely qu||^! 



m with dilated tips, entire, perfiw 



curved, with long 

 Flowers pink, 1-3 i»-' 



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smooth ; lobes caudate-acuminate, glandular, often 



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