264 FLORA OF JAMAICA Eosa 



R. laevigata Mkhx. Fl. Bar. Am. i. 295 (1803) ; flowers 

 white; calyx bristly. — Lindl. Ros. Monogr. 125; Griseb. Fl. Br, 

 W. Ind. 231. R. cherokeer sis Donyi Hort. Cantab, ed. 8, 170 

 (1815) ; Small FL S. E. U. States, 528. R. siaica Lindl. op. cit. 

 126, /. 16 (1820) (non L.), t. 29 in BanJcs MSS. No. 12. 



Cherokee Rose, Buckthorn. 



Spontaneous ; Port Royal Mts. McNab ! WuUschlaegel ; Moneague, 

 Prior ! near Cinchona, Faivcctt I Christiana, Miss Wood 1 Fl. Jam. 7162*. 

 — China, Japan, southern U. States. 



Stems long, trailing, emooth, with stout, curved prickles. Leaflet* 

 generally 3, smooth, shining, glabrous ; petioles with small recurved 

 prickles ; stipules lanceolate, acuminate, glandular-serrulate. Flowers 

 large, pure white, odourless, solitary ; stalks bristly. Receptacle bristly. 

 Sepals somewhat bristly. Petals roundish, 4 cm. in diam. or larger. 

 Fruit orange-red, very bristly, somewhat pyriform, 2-2 5 cm. 1. 



Two forms have been des^cribed as species by Lindley: one, R. hevigata, 

 with periiisteut, half-adherent stipules, petioles and midribs of leavoa 

 without prickles ; and the other, R. sinica, with deciduous, subulate 

 stipules, and prickly petioles and ribs. 



R. bracteata Wendl. Bot. Beobacld. 50 (1798) ; flowers white; 

 calyx tomentose, surrounded by bracts. — Small cp. cit. 526. 



Macartney Rose. 



Naturalized in Blue Mts., between Hardware Gap and Rose Hill, 

 3600 ft., Harrisl Fl. Jam. 5711, 10,133.- China , naturalized in southern 

 United States. 



Bush about 2 ft. high, but trailing over neighbouring bushes. Braiiches 

 erect, tomentose, with strong, recurved, often twin prickles. Leaflets 3-9, 

 elliptical, obtuse, narrowing somewhat to base, minutely serrulate, shining 

 above, glabrous or puberulous beneath ; petioles glandular, prickly ; 

 stipules nearly free, tomentose, pectinate. Flotvcrs pure white, scent 

 somewhat like bitter almonds, solitary, or a few together ; stalks short, 

 tomentose. Receptacle and sepals densely tomentose. Bracts large 

 pectinate, surrounding the base of the flower. Petals large, roundish, 

 retuse or emarginate, 4*5 cm. in diam. Fruit large, spherical, orange-red, 

 tomentose. 



R. indiea L. Herb. rO Lindl. Ros. Mowgr. 106 (1820), non 

 L. Sp. PI. 492 (1753) ; flowers red. R. sinica L.* Sp. PI. 402 

 {1753).— Hook. f. Fl. Br. Ind. ii. 364. 



Blush Rose, China Rose, Monthly Rose. 



Naturalized, Resource, Blue Mts., Harris ! Fl. Jam. 6912. — China. 



Bush 6 ft. high, with few prickles on branches. Leaflets 3-5, elliptical, 

 acuminate, glabrous ; petioles with glandular hairs and recurved prickles ; 

 stipules glandular, linear, acuminate, adherent about two-thirds their 

 length. Flowers dark rose colour, fragrant, numerous, corymbose ; stalks 

 glandular. Sepals lanceolate, acuminate, glandular outside.] 



• .See note in Journ. Bot. 111. 184 (1914). 



