Tan. 8473. 
ROSA SERTATA. 
China. 
Rosaceaz. Tribe Rosgax. 
Rosa, Linn.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. i. p. 625. 
Rosa (§ Cinnamomeae) sertata, Rolfe; species ex affinitate R. Webbianae, 
Wall., a qua habitu laxiori, aculeis tenuioribus, foliis longioribus et fructu 
angustiori differt. 
Frutex ramosus, 1-1°5 m. altus; ramuli glauci, aculeis geminatis rectis 
gracilibus circiter 1 cm. longis armati, vel rarius inermes. o/ia conferta, 
. 4-10 cm. longa, 7-11-foliolata; rhachis sparse glanduloso-setulosa et 
aculedlata; foliola sub-essilia, elliptica vel elliptico-oblonga, obtu-a, acute 
dentata, subtus glauca, 1-2 em. longa; stipulae adnatae, anguste oblongae, 
arutae vel subobtusae, ciliato-glandulosae. 8-10 mm. longae. Fioves 
speciosi, rosei vel roseo-purpurei, 5-6 em. diametro, in ramulorum brevium 
apicibus pauci vel solitarii ; pedurculi 1-5-3 em. lonci, glanduluso-setulosi 
vel Jaeves. Receptaculum anguste ovoideum, glanduloso-setulosum vel 
laeve, 5-10 mm. longum. Calycis lobi ovato-lancevlati, caudato-acuminati, 
interdum foliacei, puberuli, glanduloso-setulosi vel laevi, 1-2 em. longi, 
subpatentes, etala late ohcordata. Filamenta glabra, 3-5 mm, longa, 
antheris aureis. Fructus ovoid us, apice aitenuatu;, s:.turate ruber, circiter 
2 cm. longus, sepalis persistentibus. Achaenium basi et durso villosum, 3 mis 
longum ; styli villosi in columnam 4 mm, longam cohaerentes.—R. Webbiana, 
Vilmorin in Fruticet. Vilmorin. p. 98; nec Wall.—R. A. Roure. 
The handsome Rose here figured is one grown from 
Chinese seeds obtained by Mr. E. H. Wilson on behalf of 
Messrs. J. Veitch and Sons, which flowered in the Kew collec- 
tion in June 1910. The flowers show that it is identical 
with another plant collected by Mr. A. Henry, which the 
late Professor Crepin thought might be a small-leaved form 
of £. macrophylla, Lindl., and with two other Chinese plants 
presented by Messrs. Vilmorin, Andrieux, as 2. Webbiana, 
Wall. Neither of the suggestions hitherto offered is, how- 
ever, wholly satisfactory. From &. macrophylla the species 
here described as A. sertata differs in its much smaller 
rounded leaflets and in numerous other details ; from 
Le. Webbiana it is easily distinguished by its laxer habit, 
its few slender straight stipulary thorns, and its more 
slender, beaked fruit. It is more nearly allied to R. Will-- 
mottiae, Hemsl., a plant figured at t. 8186 of this work, 
January, 1913. 
