Tas. 7096. 
ROSA BERBERIFOLIA. 
Native of Persia and Western Turkestan. 
Nat. Ord. Rosacrm.—Tribe Rose. 
Genus Rosa, Linn.; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. vol.i. p. 625.). 
Rosa berberifolia ; foliis subsessilibus simplicibus cuneato-obovatis oblongisve 
glaucis apices versus serratis dentatisve, stipulis 0, floribus solitariis, 
ovario globoso sepalisque lanceolatis simplicibus hispido-setosis, petalis 
orbiculatis aureis ima basi macula purpurea v. sanguinea notatis, ovariis 
glaberrimis, stylis liberis inclusis pilis flexuosis hirsutis, stigmate dilatato 
reniformi, fructu globoso, carpellis oblique ovoideis glaberrimis. 
Rosa berberifolia, Pallas in Nov. Act. Petrop. vol. x. p. 379, t. 10, f. 5; 
Redouté et Thor. Ros. volsi. p. 87, cum Ic.; DC. Prodr. vol. ii. p. 602; 
Ledeb. Fl. Alt. vol. ii. p. 224; Jc. Plant. Ross. t. 370; Ait. Hort. 
Kew, Ed, 2, vol. iti. p. 258; Lindl. Ros. Monogr. p. 1; Watllroth 
Monogr. Ros. p. 25; Kar. & Kiril. Enum. Plant. Fl, Alt. No. 322; 
Aitchison in Trans. Linn, Soc, Ser, 2, vol. iii. p. 62; Masters in Bull. Soe. 
Bot. Belg. vol. xxviii. ined. ; in Gard. Chron. 1889, vol. ii. p. 9, fig. 1, 2; 
and p. 78, fig. 13. : 
R. simplicifolia, Salish. Hort. Allert. 359; Parad. t. 101; Olivier Voy. vol. v 
p. 49, t. 43. ; 
Hulthemia berberifolia, Dumort. Dissert. Tournay, 1824, p. 8 (ea Endlich. 
Gen.); Ledeb. Fl. Ross. vol. ii. p. 72; Boiss. Fl. Orient. vol. ii. p. 668. ; 
Lowea berberifolia, Lindl. in Bot. Reg. t. 1261. 
Rhodopsis, Bunge in Ledeb. Fl, Alt. vol. ii. p. 224. 
_ Few plants were more asked after during my Director- 
ship of the Royal Gardens than the simple-leaved Rose, 
-a.plant that had often been in cultivation but lost, 
and which in‘so far as I knew did not then exist in 
cultivation. Discovered by Pallas about the middle of 
the last century, it was introduced into England about 
1790 through the exertions of Sir Joseph Banks, and was 
figured by. Salisbury in his Hortus Paradisaicus (t. 101). , 
Nothing further appears to have been heard of it as a 
cultivated plant till the publication of the beautiful figure 
in the Botanical Register, from a plant that flowered in 
1828 in the Royal Horticultural Society’s Gardens, and. 
which was raised from seed sent by Sir Henry Willock _ 
from Persia. Dr. Lindley, writing eloquently and pathe- 
_ Jaxvary Ist, 1890, poe. ‘ ae i i 
