12 ROSA LYELLII. 
8. ROSA Liyellii. Tab. 1. 
R. foliolis occa ae glabris, bracteis distanti- 
_bus integris, floribus 
Hab. in Nepalia ; Wallich ie s. sp. herb. Banks.) 
et Carolo Lyellio Arm., Botanices indigencee 
precip é cryptogamic peritissimo, susceptique nos- 
tri “Fautori acerrimo, dicata, 
A small shrub with the appearance of R. bracteata. 
Branches densely villous, without sete; prickles placed 
by pairs under the stipule, straight. Leaves dense, 
spreading, longer than the joints of the stem; stipule 
villous, adhering, divided at the edge into many very 
narrow segments, sparingly fringed with glands; pe- 
tioles downy, armed with a few small, hooked prickles ; 
leaflets 7, oblong-lanceolate, very shining, simply ser- 
rated, naked on both sides, except the midrib beneath, 
which is dow why. Flowers cymose; bractee at some 
distance from the calyx, linear, erect, hoary, entire ; 
pedicels hoary, elongated, glandular; tube of the calyx 
and sepals, which are nearly simple, and shorter than 
the petals, woolly. Petals and other parts of the fruc- 
tification appear to be the same as those of R. brac- 
teata. 
I have great pleasure in having an opportunity of. 
giving so fine a species as this, to my excellent friend 
Mr. Lyell, whose extensive knowledge of the genus 
and liberality in communicating it, highly entitle him 
to such a distinction. 
It has been recently sent from Nepal with a very 
extensive collection of equally interesting plants to Sir 
Joseph Banks, by Dr. Wallich. The entire narrow 
bracteze, at a considerable distance from the flowers, 
at once distinguish it from the rest of the division, with 
the characters of which it does not otherwise disagree. 
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