122 ROSA MOSCHATA. 
R. opsostemma Lhr ! beitr. 2. 72. 
R. glandulifera Roxb! fl. ind. ined. 
6B nudiuscula, foliolis oblongis acutis impubibus, pe- 
tiolis pedicellis calycibusque glandulosis. 
Hab. in agro Tunetano? ubi colitur (Desf.) ; Hispania 
calidiore, (Quer.), Alstrémer; Madera, Staunton, 
(Shutter). (v. v. cult. et s. sp. herb. Smith, Lam- 
bert.) : 
Erect, much branched. Branches very sparingly 
glandular, armed with nearly equal, strong, hooked, 
scattered prickles. Stipule linear, adherent, awl-shaped 
at the end, fringed with glands, hairy beneath ; petioles 
hairy, prickly, and glandular; leaflets ovate-lanceolate, 
unpolished, simply and finely toothed, naked above, 
glaucous beneath with a hairy midrib. Cymes very 
numerous, about 7-flowered, corymbose with downy 
ramifications; bractece very deciduous, convex, reflexed, 
hairy and glandular; pedicels somewhat glandular, 
downy like the ovate tube, and reflexed sepals; these 
last elongated, slightly compound, falling off soon after 
the petals; petals pure white with a slight scent of 
musk, nearly entire, spreading and somewhat convex ; 
stamens 80-85, very quickly deciduous ; disk coloured, 
thickened and nearly flat; ovaria 20; styles hairy, 
united in a long slender column. Fruit sinall, red. 
This is one of the few species found in the North 
of Africa, extending across the continent from Egypt 
to Mogadore and thence to Madeira, whence it was 
brought by Sir George Staunton, and by him commu- 
nicated to Mr. Lambert. On the authority of Quer, it 
is found wild in the temperate and warm provinces of 
Spain; and in the Linnzan herbarium is a Spanis 
specimen from Alstrémer. But there is no ground for 
M. Thory’s assertion, that it is a native of Hindostan. 
Roxburgh, who describes it under the name of glan- 
dulifera in his MSS. was uncertain how it found its way 
into the Botanic garden at Calcutta; but guessed it 
might have been introduced from China. ~ 
