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66. ROSA multiflora. 
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- ramulis pedunculis calycibusque tomentosis, foliolis 
mollibus lanceolatis rugosis, stipulis pectinatis. 
multiflora Thunb. Jap. 214. hae = 2. 1077. 
Pers. syn. 2. 50. Ait. kew. ed. 2. 3. 265. Bot. 
mag. t. 1059. Smith in Rees in —. Lindley in 
Ker’s Reg. t. 425. 
flava Donn. Cant. ed. 4. 121. 
. florida Poir. enc. suppl. in loc. 
. diffusa Roxb. fl. ind. ined? 
Hab. in Japonia (Thunb.); China Staunton (v. v. c. & 
s. sp. herb. Linn. et Lambert.) 
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Twelve or fifteen feet high. Branches flagelliform, 
naked, flexuose ; prickles in pairs under the stipule, 
hooked. Stipule linear, adherent, toothed, downy be- 
neath ; petioles very villous; leaflets 5-7, approximated, 
rugose, lanceolate, obtuse, crenate, very dull, hairy on 
both sides. Flowers of a beautiful pink, numerous, 
small, clustered, always double; bractee linear, tooth- 
ed, quickly deciduous, downy, as are the pedicels, tur- 
binate tube of the calyx, and entire, ovate sepals. 
Styles downy, 18-25, united in a column, longer than 
the inner petals. "Fruit turbinate, bright red, not 
crowned by the calyx, smooth, as are the peduncles. 
This is known in the gardens only with flowers in a 
double state, which then bear so much resemblance to 
those of some species of Rubus, that it is commonly 
known by the name of the Bramble-flowered China 
Rose. Its fruit has never before been described. For 
an opportunity of examining it Iam obliged to Mr. 
Lambert, in whose possession is a specimen brought 
from China by Sir George Staunton, of what is cer- 
tainly this plant, without the pubescence of peduncles 
