— 292 — 



SubgenusXn. — Hulthemia Dumort. diss. 1824; Boiss. 

 fl. Orient. II, p. 668 ; Lov:ea Lindl. Bot. Reg. lab. 1261 ; 

 Rhodopsis Bge in Ledeb. fl. Alt. II, p. 224; ejus Ic. 

 Ross. tab. 370 ; Rosa herherifolia Pall. in Nov. Act. 

 Petrop. X,p. 397, tab. 10, fig. 5. 



Styli liberi, plerumque lanati; sepala dorso aculeolata, 

 hirla, acute oblongo-lanceolata, integerrima, post anthesim 

 palentia, persistentia ; hores solitarii, terminales, in genere 

 minuti, petalis quinque, basi nectario maculaeformi obsitis, 

 aureis inferne atropurpureis ; fructus avellana minor, globo- 

 sus vel ovatus toto densissime aculeolato-hirsutus (variat 

 etiam glaber, sed non vidi) ; calycis tubus fauce constrictus, 

 limbo quinquepartito ; carpella glaberrima ; folia simplicia, 

 ovata, obovato-cuneata vel lineari-oblonga, glabra vel bre- 

 viter tomentella, obtusa, dentata, parallele nervosa; aculei 

 omnes stipulares, fere oppositi, patenti-subincurvi, grisei 

 vel albi; stipulae nullae. — Fruticulus vix pedalis, Per- 

 siam et Desertum Songaro-Khirghisicum incolens, ramo- 

 sissimus, glaber vel cinereo-tomentelius, ejus rami angulosi, 

 breves, torluosi. 



Characteres omnes generis — Persia bor. et occid. (Kotschy exs. 

 n. 698, etc 4266. H. berberifolia (Pall. 



