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the dull glaucous-red bloom of the branches, their 
small prickles, and the long sepals, it will never be 
confounded with canina. It has been strangely reduced 
to R. cinnamemea by Thory; on what grounds I am 
quite at a loss even to conjecture. 
57. ROSA sericea. Tab. 12. 
R. aculeis stipularibus compressis: superioribus runci- 
natis, foliolis oblongis obtusis apice serratis subtus 
sericeis. 
Hab. in Gossam Than, Wallich. (v. s.s. herb. Banks.) 
Branches brown, stiff, straight, the old ones very 
rugose. Prickles very large, ovate, compressed, their 
point turned upwards, placed under the stipule. 
Leaves very close; stipule long, narrow, concave, with- 
out pubescence, fringed or naked at the edge, falcate 
and dilated at the end; petioles very slightly downy or 
naked, unarmed, or furnished with a few sete and 
straight prickles having a broad base ; leaflets 7-11, ob- 
long, flattish, waved, green and naked above, paler with 
the rib and principal veins silky beneath; at the end, 
which is blunt, simply and deeply toothed: the ser- 
ratures acuminated. The petiole in some specimens is 
unusually elongated before the first leaflet is set on. 
Flowers solitary, concave, without bractez, erect or 
nodding: peduncle and calyx naked; tube ovate; sepals 
ovate with a very narrow point, slightly pubescent. 
This is the first of a set of species found only in the 
warmer countries of Asia, but not materially receding 
from the characters of the division. It is remarkable 
fcr the silky under side of its oblong leayes which are 
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