I3S ROSACEA. 



nearly so underneath ; margin silky ; nerves one to each 

 lobe ; veins obscure ; stalk of inflorescence up to sH 

 inches, forked or branched several times with small 

 deeply lobed or three-fid bracts. Flowers J^ to % inch 

 across. Sepals eight, villous outside, glabrous inside, 

 outer four sepals smaller ; inner four triangular, thin. 

 Stamens four, alternating with these. Wight Ic. t. 229. 



In open grass land, on the downs not abundant. J^yson 2223, 

 2913. Bourne 717. 



Very similar to the Lady's-mantle of Great Britain. 



ROSA. F.B.I. 51 XVI. 



Rose. 



Very prickly often straggling shrubs with odd-pinnate 

 leaves having large stipules adnate to the leaf-stalk, and 

 showy terminal flowers solitary or in corymbs ; distin- 

 guished from all others of the family by the egg-shaped 

 calyx tube in which are a number of separate carpels each 

 with its style protruding through the mouth of the cham- 

 ber, and which in fruit becomes slightly enlarged and 

 edible, and contains a number of hairy achenes. 



Many of the species are highly variable and the number is variously put 

 at from 30 to 300 according to the conception of species held, Dist. over 

 the temperate and sub-alpine regions of the northern hemisphere but rare 

 in America ; not south of Abyssinia, India or Mexico. 



Rosa leschcnaultiana Wight and Arnott ; F.B.L ii 368 

 XVI 9; Nilgiri Dog-rose. A large straggler. Leaflets 

 five, glabrous, obovate-oblong-acute or shortly acuminate, 

 sharply and finely serrate, glabrous on both sides : midrib 

 with a few prickles : main stalk glandular and prickly ; 

 stipules adnate for as much as an inch with five-spreading 

 points. Flowers several in terminal cymose corymbs : 

 pedicels slender. Calyx tube contracted below the much 

 larger acuminate sepals. Flowers 2 to 3 inches diameter 

 t. 101. t.t. lOl, 102, 103. Wight Ic. t. 38. 



