366 LI. KOSACEJ;. (J. D. Hooker.) [Rosa. 



** Sepals persistent in fruit. 



3. XI. macrophylla, Lindl. Monogr. Eos. 35, t. 6 ; prickles straight or 

 0, glandular and pubescent or not, leaflets elliptic-ovate acuminate or cute 

 finely serrate, bracts large, flowers solitary or corymbose red, sepals very long 

 tips filiform often dilated and serrate. Brandts For. Flor. 203 ; Wall. Plant. 

 As. Rar. ii. 19, t. 117 ; Cat. 690 ; Don Prodr. 235 ; Crepin in Bull. Soc. Bot. 

 Belq. xiii. J84, xiv. 167. R. Hoffmeisteri and Gulielmi Waldemarii, Klotzsch 

 in Reis. Pr. Waldem. Bot. 153, t. 7, 8. R. Hookeriana, Bertol. Misc. Bot. 

 xxiv. 14, t. 1. 



Temperate Himalaya, from MUBRBE, alt. 3500-10,000 ft. to SIKKIM, alt. 

 8-10,000 ft. DISTRIB. China. 



Erect ; prickles straight or slightly curved, with broad dilated bases. Leaves 

 28 in. ; leaflets 2 in., usually pubescent beneath, base acute rarely rounded ; pe- 

 tiole pubescent ; stipules large, broad, spreading. Flowers l-3in. diam., bright red, 

 peduncles pedicels and calyx usually very bristly and glandular ; bracts foliaceous, 

 oblong or lanceolate, glandular on the margin. Calyx-tube -l in.; lobes 1-2 in., 

 persistent. Petals broadly obcordate. Fruit sometimes 2 in. long ; styles hairy, ex- 

 serted ; achenes large, often | in. long, few or many. 



VAR. minor, Lindl. I.e. ; leaflets in. often obtuse, flowers 1-1^ in. diam. 



VAR. Hookeriana; nearly unarmed, leaves very pubescent, peduncles and calyx 

 hardly glandular. E. Hookeriana, Wall. Cat. 691, not of Bertol. R. torulosa, Wall. 

 MSS. 



4. R. Eg-lanteria, Linn. ; DC. Prodr. ii. 607 ; erect, branches with 

 straight prickles, branchlets prickly and bristly or naked pubescent, rarely gla- 

 brous, leaflets deeply doubly-glandular-serrate, hairy and glandular beneath, 

 flowers frw yellow, calyx-tube hemispheric or globose. R. lutea, Mill. ; Boiss. 

 Flor. Orient, ii. 671 ; Bot. Mag. t. 363 ; Brandis For. Flor. 201. R. bicolor, 

 Jacq. Sort. Vind. i. t. 1. (The Austrian rose.) 



Drier parts of the inner Himalaya, from KISHTWAR westward and in WESTERN 

 TIBET, alt. 8-11,000 ft. DISTKIB. Alfghanistan and westward to Asia Minor, 

 northward to Siberia. 



A small bush, very leafy ; prickles slender, much compressed, pale. Leaves 

 1^-3 in., leaflets 2-4 pair, | | in. ; petiolulate, elliptic-obovate or orbicular, obtuse 

 or apiculate, rather membranous, glabrous or sparsely hairy above ; petiole pubes- 

 cent and glandular ; stipules broad, free portion half ovate, toothed. Flowers 

 2-2 in. diam. ; pedicel often glabrous ; bracts ovate-lanceolate, long-acuminate, glan- 

 dular. Calyx-tube glabrous, unarmed or prickly ; lobes long-acuminate, tomentose, 

 persistent, entire or with marginal lacinise ; tips usually dilated. Petals obcordate, 

 variable in depth of colour. 



5. R. Webbiana. Wall. Cat. 683; erect, prickles pale, bristles 0, 

 leaflets oblong or orbicular, flowers subsolitary, calyx-tube usually glandular- 

 bristly, sepals exceeding the petals, fruit ovoid or globose. Royle III. 208, 

 t. 42; Crepin in Bull. Soc. Bot. Belg. xiii. 274; Brandts For. Flor. 202. 

 R. unguicularis, Bertol. Misc. xxii. ] 5, t. 3. R. pimpinellifolia, Herb. Ind. 

 Or. Hook./. $ T. 



Drier inner Himalaya, from KASHMIR to KUMAOX and WESTERN TIBET, alfc. 

 5-13,500 ft. 



Glatrous, or with pubescent petioles and leaves beneath ; glandular hairs w 

 confined to the inflorescence; prickles copious, |-f in., straight or curved, with 1 

 bases, yellow. Leaves -2 in. ; leaflets 2-5 pair, |-| in., rarely obovate, entire tow 

 the usually rounded base, rarely pubescent ; stipules small. Flowers pink, 1-3 

 diam., usually solitary. Calyx globose or ovoid, often densely bristly, rarely 

 smooth ; lobes caudate-acuminate, glandular, often with dilated tips, entire, persii 



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