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Tas. 7770; 
ROSA FEpTsCHENKOANA. 
Native of Turkestan. 
Nat. Ord. Rosacea.—Tribe Rosea. 
Genus Rosa, Linn. ; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. i. p. 625.) 
Rosa (Cinnamome) Fedischenkoana; frutex erectus, vage ramosus, ramis 
ramulisque crebre armatis, aculeis stipularibus rigidis rectis v. recurvis 
bisin versus paullo dilatatis et compressis ceteris setiformibus rectis, foliis 
glaucescentibus 5-7-foliolatis, rhachi gracili sparse setaceo, foliolis polli- 
caribus ellipticis acutis simpliciter serrulatis terminali paullo majore, 
stipulis acuminatis petiolo adnatis apicibus liberis floribus solitariis v. 
2-4-nis albis malodoris, pedunculis ovariis ellipsoideis sepalisque glandu- 
loso-pilosis, sepalis lanceolatis apicibus linearibus apice simplicibus v. 
paullo dilatatis, petalis sepalis bis terve longioribus, carpellis stylisque 
jilis longis sparse hirsutis, fructibus ellipsoideis v. subpyrformibus setulosis 
rubris sepalis persistentibus coronatis. 
R. Fedtschenkoana, Regel. Del. Sem. Hort. Petrop. 1876, p. 36; et in Acta 
Horti Petrop, vol, v. (1877) p. 314. 
A very handsome white rose, with almost black bark on 
the older branches, red brown on the younger. It was 
discovered in the Turkestan and Kokan regions of Central 
Asia, by the Russian travellers, Fedtschenko & Korolkow, 
by whom it was introduced into the Imperial Botanic 
Gardens of St. Petersburgh. A plant of it was procured 
for the Royal Gardens, Kew, from Mr. T. Smith’s Nursery 
at Newry, in 1890, which has developed into a rambling, 
very glaucous shrub of free growth, and flowered in June, 
1900, fruiting in the following September. 
According to Dr, Regel it is a variable plant, of which 
he describes four forms, differing from one another chiefly 
in the amount of glandular hairs in the calyx, and in the 
form of the fruit, from globose to lageniform. The scent 
of the flowers is uupleasant. 
Descr.—A free-growing, very glaucous, much-branched, 
closely prickly shrub ; stipular prickles straight, or slightly 
recurved, compressed, and somewhat dilated at the base, 
other prickles on the branches reduced to bristles, glandular 
hairs none. Leaves four to five inches long; rhachis 
slender, sparsely setose ; leaflets five to seven, an inch long, 
elliptic, acute, simply serrulate, glaucous; stipules adnate 
Aprit Ist, 1901. 
