1924] REHDER, LIGNEOUS PLANTS OF NORTHERN CHINA, II 201 



Shensi: Tai pei shan, G. Giraldi, nos. 1003, 1683 (ex Pritzel, 1. c). 

 Distribution: also Himalayas. 



Rosa multiflora Thunberg, Fl. Jap. 214 (1784).— Hemsley in Jour. 

 Linn. Soc. xxm. 253 (1887), pro parte.— Ito in Tokyo Bot. Mag. xiv. 

 133 (1900).— Gilg in Bot. Jahrb. xxxiv. beibl. lxxv. 40 (1004). 



Rosa multiflora var. adenophora Franchet in Mem. Soc. Sci. Nat. Cherbourg, 



xxiv. 216 (1884).— Non Frmichet & Savatier. 

 Rosa multiflora Thunb. var. Dingier in Bot. Centralbl. Beih. xxxvu. abt. n. 



135 (1919). 



Shantung: Chifu, ravines in hills, N. H. Cowdry, no. 576, July, 1920. — 

 See also Hemsley, 1. c., Gilg, 1. c., Franchet, 1. c., Ito, 1. c., and Dingier, 1. c. 



Cowdry 's specimen is in young fruit but as Gilg states that the flowers 

 are white, the Shantung plant apparently represents typical R. multiflora. 



Rosa multiflora Thunb. var. cathayensis Rehder & Wilson in Sargent, 

 PI. Wilson, n. 304 (1915).— F. N. Meyer in U. S. Dept. Agric. Bur. PI. 

 Indust. Invent. Seeds PI. Imp. xl. 33, no. 38823 (1917).— Hers in Jour. 

 N. China Branch R. As. Soc. liii. 115 (1922); Liste Ess. Lign. Honan, 26 



(1922). 



Rosa multiflora Bunge in Mem. Div. Saw Acad. Sci. St. Petersb. n. 100 

 (Enum. PL Chin. Bor. 26) '(1833).— Hemsley in Jour. Linn. Soc. xxm. 

 253 (1887), pro parte.— Crepin in Bull. Soc. Bot. Ital. 1897, 230.— Non 



Thunberg. 

 Rosa cathayensis Bailey, Gent. Herb. i. 29 (1920). 



May 



May 



May 22, 1919; Yung ning, Yo tze ping, alt. 1000 m., J. Hers, no. 829, 

 October 4, 1919; Lushih, Ta she ho, J. Hers, no. 998, October 13, 1919; 

 Sung hsien, San kuan miao, alt. 1000 m., J. Hers, no. 1296, September 27, 

 1919; Tsi yuan hsien, Tien tan shan, J. Hers, no. 1740, September 21, 

 1921; Tsi yuan hsien, alt. 500 m., J. Hers, no. 2672, August 23, 1923; 

 Chi kung shan, L. H. Bailey, June 14, 1917; Cheng chow, planted, J. 

 Hers, no. 1979, August 22, 1922; from a plant introduced from the hills, 

 J. Hers, nos. 2582, 2583, August 2, 1923.— See also Hers, 1. c, and Bailey, 



1. c. 



Northern Kiangsu: without precise locality, J. Hers, no. 1038. 



Shensi: Tai pei shan, W. Purdom, no. 964, 1910. — See also Crepin, 

 1. c, and F. N. Meyer, 1. c. 



Kansu: without precise locality, W. Purdom, no. 536 (seeds only; 

 plants growing in the Arnold Arboretum). — See also Rehder & Wilson, 



1. c. 



Distribution: also Chekiang, Fokien, Kiangsi, Hunan, Hupeh, Sze- 



chuan, Yunnan. 



Rosa multiflora var. carnea Thory in Redoute, Roses, n. 67, t. (1821). — 



Rehder & Wilson in Sargent, PI. Wilson, n. 305 (1915). 



Rosa sp. F. N. Meyer in U. S. Dept. Agric. Bur. PI. Indust. Invent. Seeds 

 PI. Imp. xv. 58, no. 23035 (1909). 



