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small prickles ; petioles, stipules, and underside of leaves pubescent and 

 glandular. Branches armed with pale, scattered, straight, nearly equal 

 prickles and no bristles ; root-shoots more densely armed. Leaflets 2-4 

 pair, elliptical or oblong-obovate, with deep, generally double and glandu- 

 lar serratures, more or less hairy and glandular beneath. Stipules adnate 

 above the middle. Flowers yellow, solitary or 2 or 3 together, on pedi- 

 cels f-1 in. long. Calyx-segments lanceolate hairy; apex dilated and 

 often dentate or pinnatifid. Ovary and back of calyx-segments with 

 scattered bristles. Disc thickened ; styles villous, distinct. 



Arid parts of the inner Himalaya. Lahoul, Ladak, Western Tibet between 

 8000 and 11,000 ft. In British Lahoul near villages only (Cleghorn). In Kisht- 

 war at 7500 ft. (T. Thomson). Fl. June, July. Mountains of Afghanistan and 

 Beluchistan. Naturalised in Central and South Europe. Hardy in England. 



3. R. sericea, Lindl. Monogr. Eos. t. 12 ; Eoyle HI. t. 42 f. 1. 



Armed with large, shining, generally infra-stipular prickles J-f in. long, 

 from a broad, flat, triangular base, straight or slightly curved upwards. 

 Copious small prickles and bristles. Leaves approximate; leaflets 3-5 

 pair, oblong oblong-obovate or cuneate, entire near the base, dentate near 

 top with deep sharp teeth, glabrous above, silky, especially near nerves 

 beneath. Stipules adnate beyond the middle, petioles pubescent. Flowers 

 solitary, white or pink ; peduncle and ovary glabrous. Calyx-segments 

 broad-lanceolate, pubescent. Petals 4. Fruit scarlet, pear-shaped, crowned 

 by the persistent calyx-segments. 



Higher ranges of the outer and inner Himalaya, between 9000 and 14,000 ft. 

 from the Chur (Royle) to Bhutan. Fl. June. Hardy in England. 



4. R. Webbiana, "Wall. ; Eoyle 111. t. 42. Vern. Kantian, shingari, 

 Hazara; Shikand, sikanda, shawali, manyar, brazen, Chenab; Chua, 

 Lahoul ; Sia, Ladak ; Sea, Piti. 



Erect shrub ; glabrous, or petioles and leaves pubescent. Branchlets 

 without bristles, armed with prickles of one size, straw-coloured, J-f in. 

 long, on a large flattened base, straight or nearly so, divaricate or ascend- 

 ing. Leaves small, subcoriaceous, J-2 J in. long ; leaflets generally 3 pair, 

 subcoriaceous, obovate or rotundate, entire near the base, with deep sharp 

 teeth near the apex. Flowers pink, solitary or geminate ; peduncles |-j 

 in. long. Calyx-segments twice the length of ovary, nearly as long as 

 petals, lanceolate, long-acuminate, apex slightly dilated. Peduncles, 

 ovary, and back of calyx-segments nearly always clothed with large, 

 glandular hairs or bristles. Styles villous, distinct. Fruit ovoid or 

 globose, j in. long, red, fleshy. 



Chiefly in the arid tracts of the N.W. Himalaya from the Indus to Kamaon, 

 generally between 5000 and 10,000 ft., ascending to 13,500 ft. in Ladak. On 

 the south of the Safedkoh between 8000 and 9000 ft. The fruit is eaten. In 

 Piti the branches are collected and piled up on houses to be used as fuel. 

 Hardy in England. 



Nearly allied is the Scotch or Burnet Rose, R. spinosissima, Linn., sub-sp. 

 R. pimpinellifolia, Hook. Stud. Fl. 120, of Europe and the East, which differs 

 by more numerous leaflets (generally 4-5 pair), copious, slender, large and small 



