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grosse spinoso-dentata, dentibus utrinsecus 3-9, rigide coriacea, 
glabra, supra nitida, infra leviter pallidiora et laxe reticulata; 
costa supra paullo imm a infra valde prominens et semi- 
teres, basi circiter 15 mm. crassa; nervi laterales, utrinsecus 
em ve 
productis, supra vix evidentes, infra valde sigan nervis 
tertiariis laxis infra prominulis; petioli 4-6 mm. longi, 
crassi, transverse verrucosi. Racemi 2 e ramis annotinis pen- 
duli, eirciter 3.cm. longi, pauciflori ; rhachis robustus, puberulus; 
bracteae minutae; pedicelli crassi, 2-5-3 mm. longi, hispiduli. 
Perianthium cikeabex 4 mm. longum, apice perforatum, medio 
constrictum et superne ovario liberum, extra verruculosum, haud 
lobatum; ovarium carnosum, glabrum; stylus 1 mm. longus, 
ramis 1 mm. longis arcte recurvatis verruculosis. 
Burma. Known only from a cultivated specimen in the Cal- 
eutta Herbarium, probably grown from a plant or seeds collected 
at Ava by J. Anderson. 
XII.—ROSA GLUTINOSA. 
R. A. Rorre. 
For some time it has been suspected that the Rose long culti- 
vated and recently figured as Rosa glutinosa (Willmott, Rosa, p. 
Sm., at all events as figured by the authors, and a comparison ‘of 
aa, with the aid of a specimen from the Sibthorpian Her- 
barium at Oxford, kindly lent by Prof. S. H. Vines, reveals an 
amount 3 ebatawon that it seems desirable to clear up as far 
as possi 
Bo. osa aida: Sibth. & Sm., was originally described in 1806 
(Sibth. & Sm. FI. Graec. Prodr r. i, p. 348), and based on “ KX. 
Sphacioticis.” g 
published in Sibth. & € Sm. F 1. Graec. t. 482. In this later work 
we find the additional references, ‘‘ Lindl. Ros. 95,” rage 5 
pumila alpina, pimpinellae exacte foliis sparsis, spinis incurvis, 
aquate purpurea, Cupan. Panphyt. ed. 1, v. 1. aid urning 
to aout. Ko. we find the farther synonym * R. rubi iginosa cretica, 
i. 93, 125, t. 50,” with the localities, ab. in 
There £?, also the note, 
fort (v. . herb. ; 
up rahi: I ‘ust to Sir James Sam No 
a considerable amount confusion, 
clude more than a single species. 
R. glutinosa was thus based upon — from two differen 
sources, first on the ce Rosa cretica mon SSE wii 
