Tas. 8826. 
ROSA GLUTINOSA, var. DALMATICA. 
Dalmatia. 
Rosaceak. Tribe Roskax, 
Rosa, Linn. ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. i. p. 625. 
Rosa glutinosa, Sibth. et Sm., var. dalmatica, Borbas, Prim. Ros. Monogr. 
Hung. p. 501; Beck et Szysz. Pl. Cernagor. et Albania, p. 111, t.4, fig. j-k. ; 
Rolfe in Kew Bulletin, 1918, p. 156; a Rosa glutinosa, Sibth. et Sm., 
typica aculeis longioribus et rectis, foliolis minus pilosis, fruviu ovoideo et 
mazjore differt. 
Fruticulus nanus, erectus, vix 0°5 m. altus; rami aculeatissimi; aculei 
inaequales, recti, 0°4-0°8 cm. longi, glandulis brevibus interspersis. Folia 
6-11 cm. longa, saepissime 7-foliolata ; rhachis crebre et breviter glandulosa, 
subtus sparse aculeata ; foliola breviter petiolulata, late elliptica vel obovato- 
elliptica, obtusa, 2-serrata, subcoriacea, 1-2°5 cm. longa, 0°8-1°7 cm. 
lata, utrinque glandulosa; stipulae superne dilatatae, auriculis obtusiusculis 
divergentibus, subtus et margine dense glandulosae. Flores terni vel 
solitarii, 83-3°5 cm. diametro; pedicelli 1-1°5 cm. longi, crebre glandulosi. 
Receptaculum subglobosum, 0°7 cm. longum, crebre setoso-glandulosum, 
Calycis lobi triangulari-lanceolati, caudato-acuminati, 1-1°2 cm. longi, 
patentes, extra crebre glandulosi. Petala late obcordata, rosea, 1°5-1°8 
em. longa. Filamenta glabra, 3-4 mm. longa. Carpella longe villosa ; 
styli 0:5 mm. longi. Fructus ellipsoideus, setoso-glandulosus, aurantiaco- 
ruber, 2-2°8 em. longus, calycis lobis persistentibus coronatus.—R. dal- 
matica, A. Kern. in Oester. Bot. Zeitschr. 1870, p. 10, R. glutinosa, 
Baker in Wilmott, Rosa, p. 467, tab.; non Sibth. et Sm.—R. A. Roire. 
The striking Rose here figured has been in cultivation 
in the Kew collection as Rosa glutinosa since 1896, in 
which year the plant from which the material for our 
plate has been derived was received from Darmstadt 
under this name. This plant is conspicuous in the 
collection by its dwarf habit and its gooseberry-like fruits 
which ultimately assume an orange-red colour. In Miss 
Wilmott’s magnificent monograph of the genus Sosa 
this is figured under the Darmstadt name. It has long 
been suspected, however, that there was some confusion 
and that this is not the original /?. glutinosa of Sibthorp 
and Smith. An exhaustive comparison of the material 
preserved at. Kew and in the Natural History Museum 
and the examination of the original Sibthorpian type at 
Oxford enabled Mr. Rolfe in 1918 to state definitely that 
OcroBER-DECEMBER, 1919. 
