6 ROSA KAMCHATICA. 
4, ROSA kamchatica. 
R. aculeis infrastipularibus falcatis majoribus, foliis 
opacis. 
R. kamchatica Vent. Cels. t.67. Ait! kew. ed. alt. 3. 
259. Pers. syn. 2. 47. Smith! m Rees in loc. 
Lindley in Edwards's Reg. t. 419. 
Hab. in Kamtchatke locis siccis saxosis, Nelson. (v. v. 
cult, et s. sp. herb. Banks.) 
Three or four feet high, with nearly the habit of 
R. ferox. Branches downy, pale brown, procumbent, 
beset with pubescent prickles and setze, when old fre- 
quently naked; prickles under the stipulze large, fal- 
cate, spreading, two or three together; the interme- 
diate ones much smaller. Leaves gray, opaque; stipule 
large, much dilated upwards, rather hairy, curled at 
the edge and here and there fringed with glands; pe- 
tioles downy, unarmed; leaflets 5-9, obovate, blunt, 
deeply and simply serrated, the teeth callous at the 
end, naked above, hairy and paler beneath. Flowers 
solitary, deep red; bractee elliptical, nearly naked; 
peduncle hairy at the base, purple; tube of the calyx 
globose, naked; sepals very narrow, downy, and spa- 
ringly glandular, a little dilated at the end, longer 
than the petals, which are obcordate, sometimes apicu- 
late; stamens 160-170; disk a little elevated, more evi- 
dent than in R. ferox; ovaria 50; styles villous, dis- 
tinct, a little exserted. Fruit spherical, scarlet, less 
than in R. ferox; as are the pericarps, which are small, 
shining, with an even surface. 
This has usually been considered of somewhat re- 
cent introduction to the gardens of Europe; but it is 
certain that the period of its arrival may be fixed at 
somewhat beyond the middle of the last century. Sir 
James Smith possesses a specimen of it gathered in the 
