130 ROSA MICROCARPA. 
75. ROSA microcarpa. Tab. 18. 
R. floribus corymbosis, fructibus pisiformibus inermi~ 
bus. 
R. cheusan glabra, juniperi fructu Pet. gaz. 57. t. 35. 
eae & # 
Hab. in Chinz Provincia Canton, Staunton (v. s. sp. 
herb. Banks & pict. bs icon, Sinens.) 
Branches flagelliform, te By defended by a few 
small, scattered, deciduous, hooked prickles, when 
young a little downy. Leaves distant, deciduous ; 
stipules subulate, quickly falling off; petioles downy or 
naked; leaflets 3 or 5, oblong, or ovato-lanceolate, 
naked, simply crenato-serrate, above shining, dark 
green, beneath paler. Flowers very numerous, small, 
white; bractece deciduous ; stalks smooth ; fruit ‘scarlet, 
the size and form of that. of Crateegus oxyacantha ; 
styles 15, hairy, very little exserted; disk flat; sepals 
deciduous ; _pericarps 2-3 roundish, naked, very shining. 
There can be no stronger evidence of the very im- 
perfect knowledge of Linneeus in Asiatic Roses than his 
citing this, which is very well figured in’Petiver, to so 
dissimilar a plant as R. indica. This error has been 
continued by Willdenow, who probably, on that ac- 
count, considered Linnzeus’s R. indica to be something 
with which he was unacqaainted. 
It has a near affinity to R. Banksie, from which its 
prickly stem, in a young state slightly downy, and dif- 
ferently shaped leaflets, sufficiently distinguish -it. 
