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having a few setaceous aciculi and a few sctre intermixed with its prickles, 

 leaves more glandular beneath and the glands faintly odorous, the terminal 

 leaflet being nearly as broad as long and much rounded at the base, by its 

 deeper coloured flowers, more elongated calyx tube and fruit, and more 

 persistent sepals. The specimens which I have seen were gathered in a 

 hedge at Spring Gardens, near Newcastle, by Mr. Robertson, who reports 

 it also from Ravensworth Woods, Durham. 



IX. — R. JuNDziLiJANA, Besser. A vigorous bush with arching stems, 

 about six feet in height, and the habit and appearance of R. tomentosa. 

 Prickles uniform, the base about three-eighths of an inch deep and the 

 prickle about the same length, the lower part moderately robust, the 

 prickle curved but slightly and the point long and needle-like. Well 

 developed leaves of the barren stem from four to four and a half inches 

 from tlie base to the apex of the terminal leaflet, which is broadly ovate or 

 elliptical, rounded or even almost cordate at the base, and measures from 

 an inch and a quarter to an inch and a half long by fully an inch broad. 

 Leaves full green above, thinly hairy all over when young, but becoming 

 glabrous as they mature, glaucous or greyish green beneath, thin in texture, 

 hairy only on the principal veins, but thinly covered all over the blade 

 with green viscous mealy glands, the serratures open and each furnished 

 with two or three gland-tii^ped teeth, the petioles only thinly hairy but 

 plentifully setose, furnished with three or four slightly curved aciculi, and 

 sometimes several smaller setaceous ones in addition. Lowest stipules 

 not hairy but slightly glandular on the back, the upper ones and the ovate- 

 lanceolate bracts almost or quite naked. Peduncles and ovate-elliptical 

 calyx tube densely aciculate and setose. Sepals five-eighths to three- 

 quarters of an inch long, ovate-lanceolate with the point not much length- 

 ened out or dilated, mostly with two or three toothed leafy pinnse on each 

 side, tomentose towards the edges, rough on the back with setae and 

 aciculi, spreading out level after the petals fall, afterwards ascending. 

 Petals pink, the flower the same size as that of R. tomentosa. Styles thinly 

 hairy. Fruit subglobose or broadly elliptical urceolate, prickly or nearly 

 naked, three-quarters to seven-eighths of an inch deep by three-quarters 

 broad, the sepals falling before it changes colour. 



Gathered by Mr. F. M. Webb and Mr. H. S. Fisher in a hedge near 



Morton, Cheshire, only one bush actually known. The Cheshire plant 



agrees well with my specimens of the French plant from M. Deseglise, 



except that the prickles are rather more robust. This appears to be in- 



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