118 THE BOOK OF ROSES. 



This variety is not yet in general cultivation. It 

 was sent from the Gossam Than, by Dr. Wallich, in 

 1820. 



FIFTH TRIBE OF SPECIES III. 

 Rosa Jllpina, or Alpine Rose. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTERS. 



Shrub, from seven to ten feet high. 



Branches, usually straight, of a greenish brown, thorny 

 and bristly at distant intervals. 



Stipules, narrow, usually naked, fringed with glands. 



Leafstalks, hairy or cottonous, sometimes glandulous 

 and armed with small thorns. 



Lea/lets, from five to nine, thin, concave, oval, pointed, 

 doubly toothed, naked on the upper surface ; rather 

 hairy and glandulous beneath, especially on the 

 mid-rib. 



Flowers, bracteated, red, solitary or united. 



Flowerstalk, hispid. 



Tube of calyx, globular or oval, much elongated, his- 

 pid; sometimes smooth, sometimes glandulous. 



Sepals, simple or composite, adherent and permanent. 



Petals, concave, sometimes emarginated, oboval or cor- 

 diform. 



Disk, large or thickened. 



Styles, generally hairy and detached. 



Fruit, round, or in the form of an amphora ; scarlet, 

 of an orange-red; sometimes smooth, sometimes 

 hispid. 



