364 LI. ROSACES. (J. D. Hooker.) [Rosa. 



A. Styles distinct. 



I. BRACTEATJE. Fruit and branchlets densely tomentose; prickles twin, mostly 

 infra-stipular ; flowers bracteate ; sepals deciduous. 



1. E. LYEIXII, (including 7?. involucrata). See below. 



2. R. BRACTEATA, Wendl. \ flowers large white, calyx-tube clothed yith prickles. 

 The Macartney rose. China. 



11. EGLANTERIA, Prickles some stout and some slender ; flowers yellow or red ; 

 sepals persistent. 



3. K. EGIANTERIA, Mill. See below. 



4. K. SULPHUREA, Ait. ; leaflets 7 whitish beneath, flowers large yellow double. 

 R. Rapini, Boiss. Fl. Orient, ii. 672. Asia Minor to Persia. 



III. GALLICS; ; erect, prickles mixed with glandular bristles ; leaflets rugose ; 

 flowers rosy or purple ; sepals more or less pinnatifid. 



.5. R. DAMASCENA, Mill. ; Wall. Cat. 684 ; pickles unequal, larger hooked, sepals 

 reflexed in flower. The commonest Indian garden rose ^ cultivated for Attar. Native 

 country unknown. 



6. R. CENTIFOLIA, Linn. ; . Eoxb. Fl. Ind. ii. 513; prickles unequal large hooked, 

 bristles numerous, leaflets and calyx glandular-ciliate, flowers nodding. The Cab- 

 bage, Moss, and Provence roses. Caucasus and Assyria. 



7. R. GALLICA, Linn. ; prickles slender equal, flowers erect. Europe, Asia 

 Minor. 



IV. CANINJE. Prickles uniform ; bristles ; flowers purple red, rosy or white. 



8. R. INDICA, Linn. ; Wall. Cat. 85, 685 ; evergreen, glabrous, stipules very nar- 

 rw adnate almost to the top, flowers large on long pedicels rarely single, sepals re- 

 liexed. R. chinensis, Jacq. ; Eoxb. Fl. Ind. ii. 513. R. sinica, Linn. R. fragrans, 

 Eedoute ; R. semperflorens, Bot. Mag. t. 284 ; Eoxb. Fl. Ind. ii. 514 ; Wall. Cat. 686. 

 The Indian, China, Bengal and Tea roses, and hybrid perpetuals belong here. China. 



9. R. MICROPHYLLA, Lindl. Bot. Eeg. t. 919 ; Eoxb. Fl. Ind. ii. 515 ; Bot. Mag. t. 

 3490 ; Wall. Cat. 692 ; branchlets flexuous, prickles infra-stipular, leaflets 9-15 small, 

 scape densely prickly, sepals short broad-toothed, flowers large double rosy. China. 



10. R. ALBA, Linn.; leaflets 5-7 large grey rugose downy and pale beneath, 

 flowers large white pale or blush double, sepals often pinnatifid. R. glandulifera, 

 Eoxb. Fl. Ind. ii. 514. Caucasus, Afghanistan? 



V. BANKSIAN^E. Climbing ; stipules small, often deciduous ; flowers rather small, 

 corymbose. 



11. R. BANKSIJE, Br. ; unarmed, leaflets 3 or 5 shining, flowers white or yellow. 

 Hot. Mag. t. 1954; Bot. Eeg. t. 1105. R. inermis, Eoxb. Fl. Ind. ii. 516. China, 

 J apan. 



12. R. MICROCARPA, Lindl. ; prickles hooked, leaflets usually 3 shining, flowers 

 white, sepals deciduous, fruit small globose red. China. 



13. R. SINICA, Ait. ; Bot. Mag. t. 2847; Bot. Eeg. t. 1922; Wall. Cat. 694; 

 prickles red hooked, leaflets 3 shining, flowers solitary large white, peduncles and 

 calyx clothed with straight prickles, fruit muricate crowned with the spreading sepals. 

 R. triphylla, Eoxb. Fl. Ind. ii. 515. China, Japan. 



14. R. FORTUNEANA, Lindl. ; prickles small hooked, leaflets 3 or 5 dark shining, 

 flowers solitary white double, peduncles short bristly, calyx naked and glabrous. 

 China. 



B. Styles united in a column ; flowers corymbose ; prickles uniform. 



15. R. MOSCHATA. See below. 



16. R. SEMPERVIRENS. See below. 



17. R. MTJLTIFLORA, TJiunb. ; Bot. Mag. t. 1059; Bot. Eeg. t. 425 ; stipules and 

 bracts pectinate ; flowers double rosy ; petioles and inflorescence with long soft hairs 

 and no glands ; sepals broad ovate. Japan, China. 



