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I am therefore to ask whether you will accept these collections 
on the terms stated and in any case an answer which can be laid 
before the Council on the 17th instant will be esteemed. 
The reply to this letter was as follows :— 
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. 
April 5, 19138. 
I HAVE the honour to acknowledge receipt of your letter dated 
4 April conveying the text of a motion relative to the Wallichian 
Herbarium now the property of the Linnean Society which the 
Council of the Society had been so kind as to formulate and the 
ellows in Special General Meeting assembled have been so 
generous as to adopt. : 
In reply I beg to inform you that I shall be glad to accept the 
collections referred to in the motion under the conditions which the 
Council have attached to the donation. 
The transfer of the Herbarium to Kew in accordance with the 
arrangement detailed above took place on July 11th, 1913. 
XLIV.—_DECADES KEWENSES 
PLANTARUM NOVARUM IN Herpario Horr Reeii 
ONSERVATARUM. 
DECAS LXXIV. 
2°? 731, Rosa (Cinnamomeae) persetosa, Holfe [Rosaceae] ; affinis 
ad 
R. aciculari, Lindl, sed floribus minoribus in paniculas laxas 
oblongae, acutae, minute pectinatae, 1-1°7 em. longae. Paniculae 
terminales, 9-12 cm, longae, copiose setosae. Bracteae lanceolatae, 
ovato-oblonga, medio angusta, apice lanceolata, minutissime pube- 
la 2°5 cm. lata, saturate rosea ; petala 
1°3-1°5 cm. lata. Stamina 3-4 em. longa; antherae 2 mm, longae. 
Styli 2°5 mm. exserti.—R. macrophylla? forma gracilis, Vilmorin, 
Fructic. Vilmorin (1904) 94. 
HINA. : 
Flowered with Messrs. Paul & Son, The Old Nurseries, 
Cheshunt, in June, 1912. In its strongly setose character the 
species recalls R. acicularis, Lindl., but it differs from this and 
every other member of the Cinnamomeae in its lax, many-flowered 
panicles, which give the plant a very graceful appearance. I 
flowers are also rather small, and the sepals relatively long, being 
