handsome appearance with its large corymbs of white or 

 slightly cream-coloured,, fragrant flowers, which, in age, 

 assume another tint, being then singularly spotted with 

 dingy purple. Our plant seems less glandular and downy 

 than that figured and described by Dr. Lindley, and is 

 probably the var. depilata, Lindl., in Wall. Cat., from 

 Kamoon. Dr. Lindley, in his " Rosarum Monographia," 

 alludes to its affinity with R. moschata, a species supposed 

 to be peculiar to Africa, and De Candolle says, " an var. 

 R. moschata?" but the latter, having been now found in 

 Nepal, satisfies Dr. Lindley that the distinguishing features 

 do not depend on climate, and that the two are truly dis- 

 tinct. Bat Seringe (in De Candolle) has strangely trans- 

 ferred Dr. Lindley's var. of moschata, given in Bot. Reg., 

 t. 829, to the present species. 



Descr. It is a much spreading, and probably, if suffered 

 to grow naturally, a climbing shrub, with long, slender, 

 young branches, nearly glabrous, and beset with rather 

 stout, hooked prickles. Stipules linear, acute, quite entire. 

 Petioles and leaves indistinctly (to the naked eye) hairy and 

 glandular. Leaflets five to seven, broadly lanceolate, plane, 

 acuminate, serrated, the serratures simple, close. Flowers 

 in large, copious-flowered corymbs. Bracteas narrow-lan- 

 ceolate, the sides involute. Peduncles nearly glabrous, 

 or with minute hairs and glands, and even short seta?. 

 Calyx -tube ovato- turbinate, downy and setose; sepals 

 shorter than the petals, lanceolate, acuminate, entire, and 

 slightly pinnatifid. Petals roundish, approaching to ob- 

 cordate, yellowish -white or cream-coloured, when old 

 blotched with small, purplish spots. 



