Rosa. | XLVIII. ROSACEH (OLIVER). 381 
toothed. Petals 5, sessile, spreading. Stamens indefinite, inserted in 
mouth of calyx-tube ; filaments free, filiform. Carpels indefinite, free, 
sessile at base of calyx-tube; ovary 1-celled, with a pendulous ovule. 
Achenes indefinite, included in the fleshy persistent calyx-tube.— 
Shrubs, often scandent; usually aculeate. tiaras alternate, imparipin- 
nate ; stipules adnate to the petiole. Flowers solitary, or in corymbose 
cymes, white, red or yellow. 
A considerable genus, several of the species of which are very variable ; most abun- 
dant in the north temperate zone of the Old World. 
1. R. abyssinica, R. Br. in Salt. App. 64; Lindl. Ros. Monog. 116, 
t.18. Scandent ; branches glabrous, aculei scattered or rather crowded, 
more or less recurved. Leaves 5—7-foliolate, ovate-elliptical or ellip- 
tical, broadly pointed or obtuse, rounded at base (cuneate in Lindley’s 
figure), acutely and nearly simply serrate, glabrous; rachis minutely 
glandular, sparingly aculeate; stipules gland-margined. Flowers 
usually in terminal corymbose cymes of 2—6 or 8 or subsolitary ; bracts 
linear-lanceolate, acuminate; peduncles and calyx minutely appressed 
pubescent or puberulous. Calyx-teeth lanceolate, elongate-acuminate, 
3 with 1-3 short setiform segments below. Styles free, exserted, very 
thinly pilose above. Fruit (fide Rich.) ovoid, glabrous, apex truncate. 
—R. Schimperiana, Hochst. et Steud. in Pl. Schimp. Abyss.; Rich. Fl. 
Abyss. i. 261. 
Nile Land. Abyssinia, Schimper! Salt, and others. (Var. with glabrate or 
minutely glandular peduncles. Ankober, Abyssinia, Dr. Roth /) : 
Probably not specifically distinct from some extra-African form, but it would be un- 
safe to identify it with our small material. Dr. Lindley (lc.) puts it near 2. semper- 
virens; Mr, Baker suggests that it may be a form of R. systyla. : 
We have besides from Ankober, collected by Dr. Roth, a solitary specimen, perhaps 
a variety of the foregoing, which approaches £2. moschata in its many flowered inflo- 
rescence. 
Richard (Fl. Abyss. i. 262) describes, under the name R. sancta, a Rose cultivated 
around churches in the province of ‘Tigre, which he says is nearly identical in habit 
with R, centifolia, L., differing in its glabrous glaucous eglandular branches, armed 
with but few recurved aculei, and in its much smaller flowers, with glaucous glabrous 
peduncles. I have not seen a specimen. 
ll. NEURADA, Linn.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. i. 625. 
Calyx-tube shallow, cupuliform, at length nearly flat below, de- 
pressed conical above, contracted and shortly 5-lobed at the mouth, 
lobes deltoid or ovate-lanceolate, alternating with as many exterior 
subulate or ‘at length aculeiform bracteoles. Petals 5, inserted in throat, 
obovate-cuneate or oblanceolate, very small and little exceeding the 
calyx. Stamens 10 (or thereabouts), short, distinct, inserted in throat 
of calyx ; anthers 2-celled. Carpels 10 (or more ?), more or less cohe- 
rent and adnate with the calyx; ovaries, at least the outer whorl, 
horizontal, narrowed into the scarcely exserted styles. Ovule solitary. 
Fruit dry, orbicular, depressed-conical, spinose-muricate, tomentose, 
often persisting long after germination of one or more of its seeds.— 
