2G4 FLORA OF .TAMxVICA Bosa 



R. Isevigata Mlrh.v. FJ. B<>r. Am. i. 295 (1803); flowers 

 white; calyx bristly. Lindl. Bos. Monogr. 125; Gr'iseh. Fl. Br. 

 W. Ind. 231. R. cherokeensis Donn Hort. Cantab, ed. 8, 170 

 (1815) ; Small Fl. S. E. U. States, 528. R. sinica Lindl. op. cit, 

 126, t. 16 (1820) (noil L.), t. 29 in BanJcs 3ISS. No. 12. 



Cherokee Kose, Buckthorn. 



Spontaneous ; Port Royal Mts. McXab I Wullsclilaegel ; Moneague, 

 Prior ! near Cinchona, Fawcctt ! Christiana, Miss Wood ! Fl. Jam. 7162*. 

 China, Japan, southern U. States. 



Stems long, trailing, smooth, with stout, curved prickles. Leaflets 

 generally 3, smooth, shining, glabrous ; petioles with small recurved 

 prickles ; stipules lanceolate, acuminate, glandular-serrulate. Flovjcrs 

 large, pure white, odourless, solitary ; stalks bristly. Receptacle bristly. 

 SejJals somewhat bristly. Petals roundish, 4 cm, in diam. or larger. 

 Fruit orange-red, very bristly, somewhat pyriform, 2-2 5 cm. 1. 



Two forms have been described as species by Lindley: one, R. It^vigata, 

 with persistent, half-adherent stipules, petioles and midribs of leaves 

 without prickles ; and the other, R. sinica, with deciduous, subulate 

 stipules, and prickly petioles and ribs. 



R. braeteata Wendl. Bat. Beobacld. 50 (1798) ; flowers white; 

 calyx tomentose, surrounded by bracts. Small op. cit. 526. 



]\Iacartney Rose. 



Naturalized in Blue Mts., between Hardware Gap and Rose Hill, 

 .8600 ft., Harris I Fl. Jam. 5711, 10,1.S3. China , naturalized in southern 

 United States. 



Bush about 2 ft. high, but trailing over neighbouring bushes. Branches 

 erect, tomentose, with strong, recurved, often twin prickles. Leaflets 3-9, 

 elliptical, obtuse, narrowing somewhat to base, minutely serrulate, shining 

 above, glabrous or puberulous beneath ; petioles glandular, prickly ; 

 stipules nearly free, tomentose, pectinate. Flowers pure white, scent 

 somewhat like bitter almonds, solitary, or a few together ; stalks short, 

 tomentose. Receptacle and sepals densely tomentose. Bracts large 

 pectinate, surrounding the base of the flower. Petals large, roundish, 

 retuse or emarginate, 4'5 cm. in diam. Fruit large, spherical, orange-red, 

 tomentose. 



R. indiea L. Herb. A Lindl. Bos. Monogr. 106 (1820), non 

 L. Sp. PI. 492 (1753) ; flowers red. R. sinica X.* % PI. 402 

 (17 d3). Hook. f. Fl. Br. Lnd. ii. 364. 



Blush Rose, China Rose, ^Monthly Rose. 



Naturalized, Resource, Blue Mts., Harrisl Fl. Jam. 6912. China. 



Bush 6 ft. high, with few prickles on branches. Leaflets 3-5, elliptical, 

 acuminate, glabrous ; petioles with glandular hairs and recurved prickles ; 

 stipules glandular, linear, acuminate, adherent about two-thirds their 

 length. Floivers dark rose colour, fragrant, numerous, corymbose ; stalks 

 glandular. Sepals lanceolate, acuminate, glandular outside.] 



* See note in Journ. Bot. lii. 184 (1914). 



