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3. Maria Leonida. 



Boughs, reddish, zig-zag, with fine red thorns. 

 Leaves, small, elliptic, dentated, glossy, and tough. 

 Flowers, expanding flesh-coloured, becoming white 

 after expansion ; double, numerous, lateral. 



4. Double Macartney. 



5. Very-double Macartney, (Rosa bracteata 



flore pleno). 

 Shrub, branching. 

 Thorns, large, crooked. 

 Leaflets, tough, glossy, full. 

 Flowers, of a pinkish white. 



II. Rosa Involucrata. 



Rosa Palustris. 



Branches, pale brown, flexible, downy. 

 Thorns, pale brown, enlarged at the base. 

 Stipules, detached, bristly, composite, with capillary 



segments, and scattered glands. On vigorous 



shoots the segments are shorter, and terminated 



with small pinnated leaves. 

 Footstalks, feeble, bristly. 

 Leaflets, obtuse, notched, rather bristly. 

 Flowers, white, solitary, surrounded with three or four 



close leaves. 



Bracteal leaves, pectinated, woolly. 

 Flowerstalk, short and woolly. 

 Tube of the calyx, globular. 

 Sepals, entire. 

 Petals, emarginated. 

 Styles, bristly, and rather salient. 



This rose, a native of Nepaul, is cultivated in the 

 open ground. 



