'Rosa.'] LI. ROSACES. (J. D. Hooker.) 367 



tent. Petals obcordate. Fruit ovoid or globose, -1 in. diam., glandular or glabrous 

 stigmas villous ; achenes many, in. long, pale. Differs from If. pimpinellifolia in 

 the fewer leaflets, uniform prickles, pubescent longer sepals, and Iruit not depressed. 



6. R. sericea, Lindl. Monogr. Ros. 105, t. 12; suberect, prickles broad 

 compressed, bristly or not, leaflets acutely toothed towards the rounded tip silky 

 beneath, flowers solitary ebracteate white or pale straw-coloured, petals usually 

 4, fruit pyriform. JRoyle HI. 208; Don Prodr. 236; Bot. Mag. t. 5200; 

 Brandis For. Flor. 202 ; Orepin in Butt. Bot. Soc. Belg. xiv. 151 ; Wall. Cat. 

 695. R. tetrapetala, Royle III. 208, t. 42. R. Wallichii, Trattin. Ros. ii. 293. 



Temperate Himalaya, from KUMAON 9-13,000 ft. to SIKKIM, alt. 9-14,000 ft. and 

 BHOTAN, alt. 5-10,000 ft. DISTEIB. China, Yunan (form with leaves very hairy on 

 both surfaces). 



Erect or subscandent ; branches perfectly glabrous and unarmed or prickly only, or 

 also loosely or densely bristly and glandular; prickles ^-lf in., straight, brown. 

 Leaves 1-3 in., crowded ; leaflets 7-9, -1 in., usually oblong, obtuse with an excurrent 

 midrib, rarely villous on both surfaces ; stipules oblong, membranous, apiculate. 

 Flowers 2 2 in. diam., on short lateral shoots, hence almost axillary ; peduncle and 

 calyx -tube bristly and glandular. Calyx-lobes pubescent, ovate-lanceolate, persistent. 

 Petals obcordate, rarely 5, white rarely pink or faintly yellowish, fruit subglobose 

 or broadly pyriform, silky or glabrous ; achenes few, 3- in. long. 



SECT. II. Styles united into a column which is exserted far beyond the calyx- 

 tube. 



7. XI. moschata, Mill. ; Brandis For. Flor. 201 ; climbing, prickles 

 recurved, leaflets ovate or ovate-lanceolate puberulous beneath, flowers many 

 in compound corymbs white, sepals often pinnatifid, fruit small subglobose. 

 Wall. Cat. 688 ; Bot. Reg. t. 829, 861. ? R. recurva, Roxb. Fl. Ind. ii. 514. 

 R. Brunonii, Lindl. Monogr. Ros. 120, t. 14; Don Prodr. 236 ; Bot. Mag. t. 

 4030; Wall. Cat. 689 (Brunonis). R. Lindleyi, Herb. Wall. R. pubescens, 

 Roxb. Fl. Ind. ii. 514. R. glandulifera, Herb. Roxb. 



Temperate Central and Westerti Himalaya, from MUKREE to NIPAL, alt, 2-1 1,000 ft. 

 -r-DisTuiB. Affghanistan. 



A tall climber ; prickles scattered, stout. Leaves 2-6 in. ; leaflets 2-4 pair, 

 13 in., acute or acuminate, serratures very numerous and acute, base rounded ; sti- 

 pules glandular, free part subulate. Inflorescence pubescent and usually glandular, 

 but not prickly or bristly, braces subulate. Flowers 1^-2 in. diam., very numerous ; 

 pedicels 1-1 in., slender. Calyx-tube small, obovoid ; lobes ^ in., lanceolate, cau- 

 date-acuminate, entire or cut or pinnatifid, reflered after flowering, deciduous. Pttals 

 orbicular-obovate, yellowish-white. Fruit | in. diam., dark brown, glabrous ; styles 

 far exserted. 



8. R. long icuspis, Bertol. Misc. Bot. xxi. 15, t. 3 ; climbing-, prickles 

 scattered curved, leaves evergreen, leaflets glabrous shining ovate-lanceolate ser- 

 rate caudate-acuminate, petioles and inflorescence glandular and bristly, flowers 

 corymbose, petals tomentose externally, fruit subglobose. Crepin in Bull. Soc. 

 Bot. Belg. xiii. 256. R. sempervirens, L. ; Hook.f. $ Thorns. Herb. Ind. Or. 



KHASIA MTS., alt. 2-5000 ft. MISHMI HILLS, Griffith. 



A tall and often very strong climber, with a stout trunk. Leaves 3-6 in. ; leaf- 

 lets 2-3 pair, 2-3 in., petiolulate, firmly coriaceous, very sharply serrate, quite gla- 

 brous, base rounded ; petiole stout, often glandular and prickly ; stipules with ovate 

 or subulate free portions. Corymbs short, more or less glandular, sometimes with 

 minute prickles ; bracts large, lanceolate, caudate, glandular all over. Flowers l in. 

 diam. ; pedicels rather stout. Calyx-tube broadly obovoid ; lobes very large with 

 often ciliated toothed tips, sometimes with a few long teeth at the side. Petals obcor- 



