I am unwilling to add another distinct form or variety or 
race to an already confusing combination. ‘To begin 
with, R. wanthina, Lindl., was founded upon a figure in 
Lambert’s collection, which has apparently not been seen 
by any subsequent writer on the subject. All Lindley 
says is: A Rose with all the appearance of It. spinosis- 
sima, except having no sete and double flowers the colour 
of R. sulphurea.” On the other hand, &. platyacantha and 
ht. Hex are very different from each other; they have 
been fully described, and they are represented in many 
herbaria by authentic specimens. Under cultivation 
ft. Hugonis flowers much more freely than Rk. Hex, and ie 
should have a future. 
Father Hugh sent no dried specimen of this Rose, and 
the nearest wild specimen I can find, either at Kew or the 
British Museum, is from the Ili district, in Chinese 
Turkestan, and is named “ R. pimpinellifolia flore luteo ;” 
but that has a setulose calyx-tube. 
Descr.—An erect shrub, four to five feet high at five 
years of age. Stems straight, slender, branching almost 
regularly on all sides, purple-brown and shining, moderately 
spiny and lenticelled; ultimate lateral branchlets very 
slender, curved upwards, brighter coloured. Prickles 
various, interspersed with bristles on the sterile branches, 
straight, the largest dilated at the base, mostly slender. 
Leaves thin, glabrous, two to four inches long, petiole and — 4 
rhachis almost thread-like ; stipules very narrow, free part 
scale-like ; leaflets five to eleven, almost sessile, oval to 
oblong or obovate, three to nine lines long, rounded at 
the tip, wedge-shaped at the base, minutely toothed except 
near the base. slower-stalks solitary, about as long as 
the leaves. Flowers yellow, about two inches and a half 
across, Caly« smooth ; lobes linear-lanceolate, very acute, 
about half an inch long, entire, tomentose inside. Petals 
orbicular-obovate, rounded or notched. Carpels about 
twelve, very hairy; styles free, shortly exserted. Fruit 
unknown.—W. Borrinc Hemstry. 
Fig. 1, a carpel :—enlarged. 
