The specimen from which the figure is taken was brought 
by Mr. Thiselton Dyer from the Pyrenees in 1881. Itisa 
very dwarf form, the R. pyrenaica of Gouan, with hispid 
sepals and elongate fruit. It flowers in June and J uly. 
Duscr. An almost unarmed shrub two to eight feet high, 
suberect, or with a few very slender straight prickles low 
down on the branches; branches suberect, slender, dark 
green, glaucous. Leaves crowded, two to five inches long; 
stipules large, flat, widened upwards, glabrous or gland- 
ciliate, and slightly bristly ; petiole and rachis glandular ; 
leaflets five to thirteen, opaque, elliptic or ovate, acuminate 
at both ends, simply or doubly serrate, naked above, 
glaucous beneath. Flowers two to two and a half inches 
in diameter, solitary, suberect ; peduncle naked, bristly or 
glandular-hairy ; calyx glabrous or glandular-bristly, tube 
obovoid, very variable in length ; sepals very long, narrowly 
lanceolate, points dilated and serrate or simple, erect in 
fruit. Petals broadly obcordate, concave, pink or rose-red. 
Disk none. Head of stigmas convex, slightly exserted. 
Frwit one to one and a half inches long, obovoid, pyriform 
or elongate, longer or shorter than the persistent sepals, 
bright red.—J. D. H. | 
