ROSA SEMPERVIRENS. 117 
64. ROSA sempervirens. 
R. surculis scandentibus, aculeis subzequalibus falcatis, 
foliis sem pel 
R. sempervirens PIE Clus. hist.2. Dill. elth. 
326. ¢. 245. Ff. 318. 
R. sempervirens Linn! sp. 704. Mill. dict. n. 9. 
_ Willd. sp. 2. 1072. Lawr. ros. t. 45. Pers. syn. 
2.49. D.C’ fl. fr. 4. 446. Ait! kew. 3. 263. 
D. C. monsp. 138. Smith! in Rees inl. Ker bot. 
reg. t. 459. 
scandens Mill. dict. n. 8. Brot. lusit. 1. 341. 
balearica Desf. cat. h. p. Pers. syn. 2. 49. 
. atrovirens Viv. fl. ital. 4. t. 6. 
capreolata Neill in Edinb. philos. journ. 3. 104. 
8 microphylla, foliolis suborbiculatis. 
R. microphylla Desf. atl. 1. 401. 
Hab. in Gallia australi, Decandolle; Lusitania, (Bro- 
tero); Italia circa Peestum abundé, Woods; Insulis 
Balearibus, Reguien; Grecia (Sibthorp); 6 circa 
Tunetam, Desfont. (v.v. c. & s. sp.) 
mm 
A climbing sla with very long, slender, bright 
green, much divided shoots, reddish on one side, and 
armed with slender, somewhat hooked red prickles, 
Leaves usually deflexed, very shining, evergreen and 
without any sort of pubescence ; stipules narrow, red, 
reflexed at the end, with a few glands on their edge ; 
petioles armed with ‘little curved prickles; leaflets 5-7, 
oval or ovato-lanceolate, flat, simply serrated, bright 
green on both sides, but much paler beneath. Flowers 
very humerous, white and fragrant; Jractee naked, lan- 
ceolate, reflexed, stained with red; peduncles naked or 
glandular; tube of the calyx ovate, naked or glan- 
dular; sepals deciduous, ovate, acuminate, nearly simple, 
