so far as is known, but it reappears in Turkestan, and 
spreads into Soongaria, the Altai Mts., Mongolia, and N. 
China, its northern limit being probably about lat. 45° 
N. ‘The specific name Hcae is derived from the initials 
of Mrs. Aitchison’s name, given before the plant was 
identified with Lindley’s Rosa xanthina. The specimen 
figured is from a plant raised at the Royal Gardens from 
seed sent by Dr. Aitchison in 1880. It flowers in June. 
Deser.—A rigid, erect shrub, three to four feet high, 
stem and branches armed with crowded, straight prickles 
about half an inch long, with dilated, compressed bases, 
branches and branchlets leafy, glandular, red when young. 
Leaves small, hardly an inch long, crowded on the branch 
lets, rhachis eglandular, stipules oblong, entire, sub-acute; 
leaflets five to nine, about a quarter of an inch long, from 
oblong to orbicular, serrulate-toothed, glandular beneath. 
Flowers peduncled, solitary at the base of the branchlets, 
about an inch in diameter, golden-yellow ;. peduncles 
glabrous, or glandular-hairy. Calyx tube globose; sepals 
lanceolate, entire, or toothed towards the tips, glandular 
externally, tomentose within. Petals orbicular. Styles 
free, tomentose, tips glabrous. Fruit globose, about a 
_ quarter of an inch in diameter, glabrous, crowned with the 
reflexed sepals. Achenes at length glabrous.—J. D. H. 
Fig. 1 and 2, Petals; 3, fruit, both of nat. size; 4, carpel, enlarged. 
