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^^f^*] LI. ROSACEA. (J. D. Hooker.) 367 



tent. Petals obcordate. Fruit 



rtigmas villous ; achenes many, ^ in. long, pale.— Differs from 7?. pmipmelli folia in 

 the fewer leaflets, uniform prickles, pubescent longer sepals, and fruit not depressed. 



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" C, Br. serlcea, ZiW/. Monogr. -R05. lOS/t. 12; sul)erect, prickles broad 

 compressed, bristly or not, leaflets acutely toothed towards the rounded tip silky 

 beneath, flowers solitary ebracteate white or pale straw-coloured^ petals usually 

 1^ fruit pyriform. Royle HI 208; Don Prodr. 236; BoL Mag. t. 6200; 

 T^aridis For, Flor. 202', Crepin in Bull BoL Soc. Belg, xiv. ]51; Wall CaU 

 695. R. tetrapetala, Royle III 208, t. 42. R. Wallichii, Trattin. Bos. ii. 293. 



. Temperate Himalaya, from Ktjmaon 9-13,000 ft. to Sikkim, alt. 9-14,000 ft. and 

 ^OTAx, alt. 5-10,000 ft, — DiSTRiB. China, Yunan (form with leaves very hairy on 

 both surfaces). 



Erect or subscandent ; branches perfectly glabrous and unarmed or prickly only, or 

 also loosely or densely bristly and glandular; prickles ^-If in., straight, brown. 

 Learn 1-3 in., crowded; leaflets 7-9, :|— 1 in., usually oblong, obtuse with an excurrent 

 inianb, rarely villous on both surfaces ; stipules oblong, membranous, apiculate, 

 blowers 2-2| in. diam., on short lateral shoots, hence almost axillary; peduncle and 

 ^»yx-tube bristly and glandular. Calyx-lobes pubescent, ovate-lanceolate, persistent. 

 ^«W5 obcordate, rarely 6, white rarely pink or faintly yellowish. Bruit subglobose 

 or broadly pyriform, silky or glabrous ; achenes few, | in. long. 



Sect. II. Styles united into a column which is exserted far beyond the calyx- 

 tube, 



^ '.a. moschata, Mill\ Brandts For. Flor, 201; climbing, prickles 

 curved, leaflets ovate or ovate-lanceolate puberulous beneath, flowers many 

 ^^^■^^pound corvmbs white, sepals often pinnatifid; fruit small subylobose. 

 ^ffU. Cat. 688 ; Bot. Beg. t. 829, 861. P R. recurva, Boxb. Fl Ind ii. 514. 

 ^^mnonii, Ztndl Monogr. Bos. 120, t. 14; Don Prodr. 236 ; Bot. Mag. t. 

 Wall Cat. 689 (B^mnonts). R, Lindleyi, Herb. Wall R. pubescens, 

 Fl Ind, ii, 514. R. fflandulifera. Herb. Boxb. 



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Temperate Central and Western Himalaya, from Murrek to Nipal, alt, 2-1 1,000 ft. 

 ^IhsTEiB. Affghanistan. 



1-3* ^^^ climber; prickle^ scattered, stout. Leaves 2-6 in.; leaflets 2-4 pair, 



I '"•» acute or acuminate, serratures very numerous and acute, base rounded ; sti- 



•^es glandular, free part subulate. Inflorescence pubescent and usually glandular, 



"•J.not prickly or bristly, bracts subulate. Flowers 1^2 in. diam., very numerous; 



^icels Ui^ in^^ slender. Calyx-tube small, obovoid ; lobes ^ in., lanceolate, cau- 



^^e-acuminate, entire or cut or pinaatifid, reflexed after flowering, deciduous. Petals 



Dicular-obovate, yellowish-white. Fruit Hd. diam., dark brown, glabrous; styles 



^^ eiserted. 



scAH *J' ^**^ff*cuspis, Bertol Misc. Bot. xxi. 15, t. 3 ; climbing, prickles 

 ^tered curved, leaves evergreen, leaflets glabrous shining ovate-lanceolate ser- 

 ^ caudate-acuminate, petioles and inflorescence glandular and bristly, flowers 

 ^se, petals tomentose externally, fruit subglobose. Crepin «n Bull Soc. 

 -"«• Belg. xiii. 256. R. sempervirens, L. ; Hook.f. ^ Thotns. Herb. hid. Or, 



Jhasia Mts., alt. 2-5000 ft. Mishmt Hills, Griffith. 

 lets 9 ^^^ ^^®" ^'^^y strong climber, with a stout trunk. Leaves 3-6 m. ; leaf- 

 troti ?P^^^' 2-3 in., petiolulate. firmly coriaceous, very sharply serrate, quite gla- 

 or s\ 1 ^® rounded ; petiole stout, often glandular and prickly ; stipules with ovate 

 ihin f . ^^^^ portions. Corymbs short, more or less glandular, sometimes with 

 4a!^ P^^tles ; bracts large, lanceolate, caudate, glandular all over. Flowers 1^ in. 

 ^A ^- ' Pedicels rather stout Calyx4uhe broadly obovoid; lobes very large with 



^ ciliated toothed tips, sometimes with a few long teeth at the side. Petals obeor- 



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