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LT. ROSACEA. (J. D. Hooker.) 



IRosa, 



date, silkily tomentose externally. Fruit |-| in. diam. ; styles far exserted ; achenes 

 ^ in.^Crepin sums up the distinction between this and its very near ally B* sew^er- 

 vinns, L., in the more coriaceous leaves with longer tips, the narrower stipules and 

 bracts, the more or less pubescent pedicels and calyx, the narrower sepals, longer buds, 

 and velvety back^of the petals. Of these all but the last character are excessively va- 

 riable, and I expect that the latter even may disappear.— There is a single specimea 

 of this in Herb. Wallich from the Khasia (Pundua) under No. 696. , ,* 



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9. a. Zieschenaultiana, Wiffht ^ Am. Prodr, 301 ; climbing, prickles 

 scattered curved, leaves evergreen usually glandular beneath, leaflets elliptic- 

 ovate acute or aciuninate serrate, petioles and inflorescence glandular-bristly, 

 flowers corymbose, petals at length glabrous, fruit subglobose. Wight Ic. t. 38; 

 Q-eptn in Bull. Soc. Bot. Belg. xxiii. 259, R. sempervirena var. Leschenaul- 

 tiana, Tho)'y et RedoutS Ros. iii. 87. R. sempervirens, Hook. /. ^ Thorn. 

 Het'h. Ind. Or. R. Wallichii, Sabine in Wall Cat. 687. 





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Western Peninsula ; Nilohiri and Pulnkt Mts. 



Very closely allied indeed to E. brevicuspis, and I believe only a variety of that' 

 plant, itself too near sempervirens ; it differs in being more glandular, leaflets less 

 acuminate, larger sepals and petals, the latter of which are pubescent only before ex- 



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DOUBTFUL SPECIES. 



E. MooRCROFTii, Wall. Cat. 693 from Ladak in Western Tibet. The specimen is 

 wanting in Herb. Linn. Soc, but is probably R. Eglantera. - • u • 



R Jacqtjemontu, Crep. MSS. — I have only a fruiting specimen of this, which is 

 quite insufficient for description. It is Jacquemont's No. 1170, p- , : 



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An annual white woolly depressed branched herb. Xeare^ ovate, petioled, 

 lobed ; stipules minute. Flower's axillary, solitary. Calyx-tube flat, dilated, at 

 length conic spiny and forming with the ripe carpels an orbicular disk ; lobes 5, 

 triangular; bracteoles 5, subulate. Petals 6, small. Stamem 10, inserted in the 

 contracted mouth of the cal^x, filaments subulate. Carpeh 10 in a whorl, spread-^ 

 ' — styles subulate, persistent; ovules solitarv from the apex of the carpeu- 



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with spinous marp:ins ; carpels 

 above, styles spinescent. Seeds ctu-ved, germinating within the carpels. 

 TRIB. N. Africa, Arabia, Persia, AflTghanistan. 



1. N. procumbens, Linn.-. Boiss. FL Orient, ii. 735; Wight Jc *• 

 1596 ; Hook. Ic. PI t. 840. 



SciNDE, Stocks. Southern Punjab, Mooltan and Adunwhari hills. 



Branches b-\{) \n. Leaves ^^^ in., ovate, tomentose on both surfaces. ^^^^JL 

 ^ in. diam., shortly pedicelled. Fruit J-| in. diam., under surface quite flat, a*^ 

 orbicular fruit forms a persistent collar at the top of the root of the young plant. 



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 lique. Flowers large, solitary, white or pink, woolly j bracts herbaceous, ^^*^^^* ' 

 Calyx-tvhe clavate ; lobes large, spreading, toothed. Petals 6, contorted m P.y^, 

 claw woolly or glabrous. Stamens 20. Ovary ^-celled ; styles 6, coniiate ^» 



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