Tas. 5200, 
ROSA SERICEA. 
Stlky-leaved Rose. 
Nat. Ord. Rosacr#.—Icosanpria D1-PENTAGYNIA. 
Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 4030.) 
Rosa (§ Canine) sericea; ramis. villoso-glandulosis, aculeis validis stipularibus 
e basi dilatata compresse subulatis rectis, foliolis 7—9 parvis ovalibus ser- 
ratis, floribus plerisque tetrapetalis, fructibus turbinatis calycibusque externe 
pubescentibus. ? 
Rosa sericea. Lindl. Monogr. Ros. p. 105. ¢.12. Royle, Fl. Himal. p. 208. t. 42. 
f.1. De Cand. Prodr. v. 2. p. 613. Wall. Cat. p. 695, 
Rosa tetrapetala. Royle, 1. c. p. 23. 
Rosa Wallichii. Zrattin. Ros. v. 2. p. 193. 
A white-flowered, usually tetrapetalous Rose of Himalaya, 
first detected by Dr. Wallich at Gossam Them, but since found 
abundantly in northern India. Dr. Lindley speaks of it as “a 
Rose which, together with R. macrophylla, found in the same 
district, exhibits the nearest approach among Indian Roses to 
those of Europe.”’ Introduced by Dr. Hooker and Mr. Strachey 
into our gardens, where it proves perfectly hardy, and is best 
treated by nailing against a wall. Thus situated, its blossoms 
are abundant in the early summer. 
Descr. A moderate-sized dush. Branches numerous, stout, 
green when young, at length brown, clothed with copious, rather 
short, spreading, glandulose hairs or sete; the glands clammy, 
and yielding an aromatic odour. Prickles rather distant, large, 
strong, dark purple, from a very broad dilated base, laterally 
compressed, subulate, very pungent, straight, generally appearing 
below the base of a stipule. Zeaves about four inches long, 
long-petiolate, petiole with a pair of lanceolate stipules, decur- 
rent, and forming a broad wing to the base of the petiole. 
Leaflets seven to nine, small, from half to three-quarters of an 
-inch long at the utmost, oval or subobovate, strongly serrated 
auGustT lst, 1860. 
