Tab. 7972. 
ROSA GiGanTEa, | 
Native of Eastern India, North Burma and Western China. 
Nat. Ord. Rosace#.—Tribe RosEa, ee 
Genus Rosa, Linn. ; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. i. p. 625.) 
Rosa (§ Indices) gigantea ; species ex affinitate R. indice, Linn., a qua ramulis 
seepissime ebracteatis unifloris floribus fractibusque majoribus differt; 
frutex robustissimus, alte scandens vel vagans, caulibus basi 3-4 poll. 
diametro aculeis fere rectis circiter 8-4 lin. longis armatis, ramulis 
floriferis inermibus vel aculeis paucis recurvis armatis, foliis in ramis 
floriferis 3-7-foliolatis 8-9 poll. longis, petiolis aculeolatis setoso- 
. glandulosis, foliolis breviter petiolulatis lanceolatis 1-3 poll. longis 
acuminatis margine calloso-serrulatis glabris, stipulis integris fere ad 
apicem adnatis parte libera lineari minute glandulosa, pedunculis sepius 
unifloris interdum trifloris seepius elongatis nudis, floribus albis vel 
lutescentibus (petalis in alabastris extus fere aureis) 4—6 poll. diametro, 
sepalis anguste lanceolatis longe acuminatis usque ad 1 poll. longis 
preecipue intus albo-pubescentibus margine minute glandulosis, petalis 
obovato-rotundatis 13-2} poll. diametro abrupte obtuseque acuminata, 
carpellis pilosis, fructu globoso circiter 14 poll. diametro inermi glabro. 
R. gigantea, Collett, ex Orépin in Comptes-Rendus des Séances de la Soc. Bot. © 
Belg. vol. xxvii. (1888), pp. 150-154, et vol. xxviii. (1889), pp. 11-14. 
Gard. Chron, 1889, vol. ii. p. 12, fig. 4. Coll. et Hems!. in Journ, Linn. 
Soc. Bot. vol. xxviii. (1890), p. 55, %. 9. W. C. Leach in Gard. Chron. 
1908, vol. i. pp. 188 ef 211. S. W. F. in daar. cit. p. 278. 
R. macrocarpa, Watt, ex Orépin in Oomptes Rendus des Séances de la Soc. 
Bot. Belg. vol. xxviii. (1889), p. 13. : 
This remarkable Rose was, we believe, first discovered 
by Dr. (now Sir George) Watt in Manipur, in 1882, 
at an altitude of 7000 ft., and there are excellent speci- — 
mens in the Kew and other herbaria collected by him. _ 
He regarded it as an undescribed species, and named it 
Jt. macrocarpa, but he never published a description. 
The name, however, has appeared in print in the place 
cited above. : 
In 1888 the late Col. Sir Henry Collett discovered the — 
Same species in the Shan Hills, Upper Burma, some 
five degrees south of the original locality, and he sent 
dried specimens and seeds of it to Calcutta and Kew. 
More recently it has been collected in Mengtze, Yunnan, 
South-western China, by Mr. W. Hancock and Dr, A, 
Henry. The former describes the flowers as white, and — ae 
sometimes fifteen inches in circumference. _ 
SErremper Ist, 1904, ae ) 
