368 LI. ROSACES. (J. D. Hooker.) [Eosa. 



date, silkily toraentose externally. Fruit \-\ in. diam. ; styles far exserted ; achenes 

 in. Crepin sums up the distinction between this and its very near ally 7?. semper- 

 virens. L., in the more coriaceous leaves with longer tips, the narrower stipules and 

 bracts, the more or less pubescent pedicels and calyx, the narrower sepals, longer buds, 

 and velvety back'of the petals. Of these all but the last character are excessively va- 

 riable, and I expect that the latter even may disappear. There is a single specimen 

 of this in Herb. Wallich from the Khasia (Pundua) under No. 696. 



9. R. Leschenaultiana, Wight $ Am. Prodr. 301 ; climbing, prickles 

 scattered curved, leaves evergreen usually glandular beneath, leaflets elliptic- 

 ovate acute or acuminate serrate, petioles and inflorescence glandular-bristly, 

 flowers corymbose, petals at length glabrous, fruit subglobose. Wight Ic. t. 38 ; 

 Crepin in Bull. Soc. Bot. Belg. xxiii. 259. R. sempervirens var. Leschenaul- 

 tiana, Thory et Redoute Ros. iii. 87. R. sempervirens, Hook. f. fy Thorns. 

 Herb. Ind. Or. R. Wallichii, Sabine in Wall. Cat. 687. 



Western Peninsula ; NILGHIRI and PULNKT MTS. 



Very closely allied indeed to R. brevicuspis, and I believe only a variety of that 

 plant, itself too near sempervirens ; it differs in being more glandular, leaflets less 

 acuminate, larger sepals and petals, the latter of which are pubescent only before ex- 

 pansion. 



DOUBTFUL SPECIES. 



E. MOORCROFTII, Wall. Cat. 693 from Ladak in "Western Tibet. The specimen is 

 wanting in Herb. Linn. Soc., but is probably R. Eglantera. 



K. JACQUEMONTII, Crep. MSS. I have only a fruiting specimen of this, which is 

 quite insufficient for description. It is Jacquemont's No. 1170, p. 



17. NEURADA, Linn. 



An annual white woolly depressed branched herb. Leaves ovate, petioled, 

 lobed ; stipules minute. Flowers axillary, solitary. Calyx-tube flat, dilated, at 

 length conic spiny and forming with the ripe carpels an orbicular disk ; lobes 5, 

 triangular ; bracteoles 5, subulate. Petals 5, small. Stamens 10, inserted in the 

 contracted mouth of the calyx, filaments subulate. Carpels 10 in a whorl, spread- 

 ing; styles subulate, persistent; ovules solitary from the apex of the carpel. 

 Fruit a depressed cone, with spinous margins ; carpels 10, horizontal, dehiscing 

 above, styles spinescent. Seeds curved, germinating within the carpels. Dis- 

 TRIB. N. Africa, Arabia, Persia, Afghanistan. 



1. N. procumbens, Linn. ; Boiss. Fl. Orient, ii. 735; Wight Ic. t. 

 1596 ; Hook. Ic. PL t. 840. 



SCINDE, Stocks. SOUTHERN PUNJAB, Mooltan and Adunwhari hills. 



Branches 5-10 in. Leaves -f in., ovate, tomeritose on both surfaces. Flowers 

 \ in. diam., shortly pedicelled. Fruit |-f in. diam., under surface quite flat. The 

 orbicular fruit forms a persistent collar at the top of the root of the young plant. 



17.* CYDONIA, Tourn. 



Bushes with black bark. Leaves simple, quite entire ; stipules ovate, ob- 

 lique. Flowers large, solitary, white or pink, woolly ; bracts herbaceous, toothed. 

 Calyx-tube clavate ; lobes large, spreading, toothed. Petals 5, contorted in bud, 

 claw woolly or glabrous. Stamens 20. Ovary 5-celled ; styles 6, connate and 



