Rosa.] XXXII. ROSACEA. 201 



13. R. microcarpa, Lindl. 1. c. t. 18. Armed with curved prickles ; leaflets 

 3, rarely 5, shining. Flowers white, corymbose ; calyx deciduous. Fruit small, 

 globose, red. China. 



14. R. sinica, Aiton ; Lindl. 1. c. t. 16 ; Bot. Reg. t. 1922. Armed with 

 scattered, red, falcate prickles. Leaflets 3, shining. Flowers solitary, large, 

 white ; peduncles and calyx- tube thickly covered with straight prickles or 

 bristles. Fruit orange-red, muricate, crowned with the spreading rigid sepals. 

 China, Japan. 



15. R. Fortuniana, Lindley ; Paxton Flower-Garden, ii. 71. Armed with 

 small falcate prickles. Leaflets 3 or 5, dark green, shining ; flowers solitary, 

 white, double on short, setose peduncles. Calyx-tube perfectly glabrous, with- 

 out prickles or bristles. China. 



B. Styles united in a Column exserted beyond the Calyx-tube. 



VI. Systyke. Flowers numerous, in terminal corymbs ; prickles uniform ; 

 leaflets 2-3 pair. 



16. R. moschata, Mill, (see below). 



17. R. sempervirens, Linn. ; Bot. Keg. t. 465.' Syn. R. Leschenaultiana, 

 Redoute Roses, iii. 87 ; W. & A. Prodr. 301 ; Wight Ic. t. 38. Climbing, 

 prickles scattered, curved from a broad base, generally red. Leaves evergreen, 

 glabrous, shining ; stipules and bracts narrow, glandular, ciliate ; petioles, 

 peduncles, and outside of calyx-tube with glandular bristles. Flowers white ; 

 calyx-segments ovate, acuminate, densely pubescent inside, deciduous ; fruit 

 small, orange-coloured. South Europe, North Africa, East Himalaya, Kasia 

 hills, mountains of South India. 



18. R. multiflora, Thunb. ; Bot. Reg. t. 425. Stipules and bracts linear-ob- 

 long, pectinate, with linear segments. Flowers double, blush red ; petioles, 

 peduncles, and calyx-tube pubescent, with long soft hairs without glands. 

 Calyx-segments broad-ovate, shortly acuminate. Japan, China. 



1. R. moschata, Mill. ; Bot. Eeg. t. 829. Syn. R. pubescens, Roxb. 

 Fl. Ind. ii. 514 ; R. Brunonii, Lindl. Monogr. Eos. t. 14. Vern. Kujt, 

 Jcuju, Tcajei, barer, N". W. Himal. ; Phulwari, chal, Kashmir ; Kwia, 

 kwiala, Kamaon. 



Climbing young shoots and underside of leaves pubescent, branches 

 armed with a few stout recurved prickles. Leaflets 2-3 pair, nearly sessile, 

 ovate-oblong, acuminate, 1-3 in. long. Flowers white, 1J in. across, in 

 large compound terminal corymbs. Pedicels 1-1 J in. long, slender, pu- 

 bescent, often with glandular hairs, but without bristles or prickles. 

 Calyx -lobes long, narrow-acuminate, twice the length of ovary, often 

 pinnatifid. Styles united in a hairy column, clavate above, as long as 

 stamens or longer. Fruit dark brown, subglobose or ovoid, \-^ in. long. 



North- West Himalaya, from Afghanistan to Nepal, ascending to 11,000 ft., 

 commencing at 2000 ft. in the Panjab, and at 4000 ft. in Kamaon. Fl. May, 

 June. Forms masses of thorny scrambling scrub, and climbs to the top of lofty 

 trees, hanging down in elegant festoons. Cultivated in Europe (hardy in Eng- 

 land), China, and throughout India, where it blooms all the year round, but 

 chiefly during the cold season. Wild in N orth Africa, and naturalised in Spain. 



2. R. lutea, Mill. ; Bot. Mag. t. 363 ; Boissier Fl. Orient, ii. 671. Syn. 

 R. eglanteria, Linn. 



A shrub ; youngest branchlets pubescent, and armed with large and 



