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ous plant with stout prickles, larger usually more 

 acute leaflets pubescent beneath, at least on the 

 midrib, globose-ovoid flowerbuds abruptly contracted 

 at the apex, larger flowers and pinnate sepals. 

 (Plantae Wilsonianae, Vol. 2, p. 342, 1915.) 

 R.caudata Baker. "This is a rose discovered by Wilson 

 in western China. It is a tall vigorous shrub with 

 stout arching stems covered not very thickly with 

 stout spines, dark green foliage, and flowers about 

 two inches in diameter, in wide, sometimes twenty-five 

 flowered clusters. The beauty of the flowers is in- 

 creased by the white marking at the base of the pure 

 pink petals. The fruit is orange-red, an inch long, 

 gradually contracted above into a narrow neck crowned 

 by the much enlarged calyx- lobes. This handsome rose 

 is flowering now for the third year in the Arboretum; 

 it is perfectly hardy and an excellent addition to the 

 roses of its class. (Arnold Arboretum, Bulletin of 

 Popular Information, new series, Vol. 1, p. 42, 1915.) 



42977. R. corymhilosa Rolfe. "A distinct new species with 

 unarmed or sparingly prickly branches and numerous 

 flowers in corymb-like inflorescences. Flowers f to 1 

 inch across. Petals broadly obcordate, deep rose 

 above, white at the base. Fruits globose, glandular, 

 about 1/3 inch long, crowned by the persistent sepals. 

 Central China." (Kew Bulletin of Miscellaneous In- 

 formation, New Garden Plants of the Year 1915, p. 80.) 



42978. R. davidi Crepin. An orange-fruited , pink-flowered 

 rose from western Szechuan, China, reaching a height 

 of 5 meters at altitudes of 1,600 to 3,000 m. It is 

 the species nearest in China to R. macrophylla Lindley of 

 the western Himalaya. (Adapted from Sargent, Plantae 

 Wilsonianae, Vol. 2, p. 322, 1915.) 42979. R. helenae 

 Render & Wilson. "From the seeds of a rose collected 

 by Wilson in western China a new species of the Moschata 

 group has been raised. It is now flowering in the 

 Arboretum for the third year and is to be named R. 

 helenae; it is a vigorous and perfectly hardy shrub with 

 slender, arching stems furnished sparingly with short 

 red spines, and five or six feet high, light green 

 cheerful foliage, and terminal and axillary many- 

 flowered clusters of pure white, delicately fragrant 

 flowers an inch and a half in diameter and borne on 

 short erect branchlets. It is a plant which will be 

 prized by persons realizing that among the wild roses 

 are some of the most beautiful of all flowering plants 

 and who find a place for them in their gardens." 

 (Arnold Arboretum, Bulletin of Popular Information, 



