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l^osa muitiflora I'hunb. var. itchiyamana Malduo var. nov. 



Rosa multifora var. Jl. roseo Makino in Bot. Mag., Tokyo, IX. (1895) 

 \K 112. 



Rosa moschata var. ? Crepin, ex Matsiim. in Bot. Mag., Tokyo, X. 

 (1896) p. 166. 



Siirubby, attaining about 2 in. or more in height, densely ramose, the 

 main stem attaining about 8 cm. across at the base ; branches slender, 

 elongate, terete, glabrous, green but often shaded with purple when young, 

 more or less flexuous, very loosely strongly armed with recurvo-patent or 

 patent compressed subdeltoid sharp fulvous (but reddish when young) aculei. 

 Leaves 2-3-jugate, petiolate, attaining about 10 cm. long, 8 cm. wide ; 

 leaflets loosely arranged, obovato-oval to obovato-lanceolate, or oblong- 

 lanceolate, acuminate to obtuse, cuneately acute to obtuse or rounded-obtuse 

 at the base, simply serrate with a mucronate point, green and very thinly 

 puberulent but afterwards glabrate or glabrous above, subglaucous and 

 puberulent but then nearly glabrate or glabrous beneath, chartaceous or 

 membranaceous, often finely impressed in venation above ; lateral ones 

 very shortly petiolulate, spreading but those of the lowest pair often re- 

 flexed ; odd one larger and rather long petiolulate, attaining about 5 cm. 

 long, 1| cm. broad ; racliis and petiole pubescent but then becoming thinly 

 so or glabrous, often thinly glandular and very loosely reversely subuncinato- 

 aculeate ; stipules adnate, narrow, with linear-subulate free portions above, 

 glanduloso-ciliato-subfimbriate ; bracteoles minute and setiform. Inflorescence 

 corymbose, short, 1-4-flowered ; bracts ovato-lanceolate to oblong-lanceolate, 

 long-acuminate, glanduloso-ciliated, thinly pubescent, usually shorter than 

 pedicels, the lowest one usually all similar to the leaves ; bracteoles opposite 

 and placed at the base of the pedicel, minute, lato-linear to lanceolate, 

 acuminate, glanduloso-ciliated, thinly pubescent, about 4-7 mm. long. Flow- 

 ers rosy, about 4-4^ cm. across, j)edicellate ; pedicels strict, thinly pubescent, 

 or glabrous and glandular-pilose, attaining about 2\ cm. long. Calyx-lobes 

 reflexed, ovato-lanceolate to lanceolate, attenuato-acuminate, entire or with 

 a few linear lacinitD on margin, ciliated, sparsely glanduloso-hirsute dorsally, 

 lanato-pubescent internally, about 10-12 mm. long ; tube ellipsoid, very 

 thinly pubescent, 4-5 mm. long. Petals 5, patent, cuneato-deltoid, emar- 

 ginate often with a minute deltoid jjoint in centre of the broad sinus, t.r 

 subtruncate, sessile, about 1^-2^ cm. long, 1^-2 cm. broad. Stamens nu- 

 merous, spreading, attaining about 8 mm. long. Styles about 10-11, long- 

 exserted, erect, filiform, piloso-pubescent, about 8 mm. long ; stigma capitate ; 

 ovary lato-linear, densely hirsute. Fruit pedicellate, ovoid, smooth, glabrous, 



