collected by Mr. A. Henry at Ichang in Central China 

 (Henry n. 2952) and with some hesitation referred to it 

 a second specimen obtained by the same traveller in 

 North Patung (Henry n. 7007). The latter, however, has 

 a rather more ellipsoid fruit, and Render and Wilson 

 have recently referred it to R. Rubus, Lev. and Vaniot, 

 a species previously known only from the original speci- 

 men, collected at Kouy-tcheou by the Abbe Martin, 

 which, according to its authors, has the styles free. At 

 the same time Render and Wilson (PL Wils. vol. ii. 

 p. 312) have treated R. cerasocarpa itself as a form of 

 R. Gentiliana, Lev. and Vaniot, a species met with at 

 Kiang-seu by the Abbe d'Argy. But the Rose now 

 described differs from the original specimen of R. Genti- 

 liana, figured by Miss Willmott in her monograph of the 

 genus Rosa ; in our plant the leaflets are longer, more 

 acuminate, and of a firmer texture; the stipules are 

 narrower and less fimbriate; the pedicels are more 

 densely glandular. 



Description.— Shrub, tall and scandent or subscan- 

 dent ; branches more or less glaucous, sparingly beset with 

 stout, recurved, wide-based prickles. Leaves 5-7 in. long, 

 5-foliolate or occasionally only 3-foliolate ; rachis shortly 

 glandular and sparingly prickly; leaflets shortly petio- 

 lulate, ovate or elliptic -ovate, acuminate, sharply serrate, 

 glabrous or nearly so, subcoriaceous, 2-4 in. long, 1-2 in. 

 wide, glaucescent beneath, prominently veined ; stipules 

 adnate, very narrow, free divergent and acuminate 

 above, their margins sparingly glandular. Flowers 1-1| 

 in. wide, in terminal corymbiform many-flowered cymes 

 3-6 in. across; pedicels f-li in. long, closely glandular. 

 Receptacle narrow-obovoid, $ in. long, villous and glan- 

 dular. Calyx-lobes oblong-lanceolate, acuminate or cau- 

 date-acuminate, pubescent and glandular, at times 

 pmnatisect, about J in. long, reflexed. Petals white, 

 cuneate-obcordate, about | in. long. Filaments glabrous, 

 about i in. long. Carpels very villous ; styles united in 

 a column, { in. long. Fruit globose, deep red, over J in. 

 long ; calyx-lobes and styles deciduous. 



Fig. 1 vertical section of a flower, the petals removed ; 2 and 3, stamens ; 

 4, carpels; 5, a fruit; 6, an achine :—all enlarged. 



