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Glaucous Rose with semi-double flowers. 



Shrub, having narrow leaflets. 



Flowers, small, semi-double ; light purple. 



SECTION II. ROSES OF INDIA AND AFRICA. 



The only specific character distinguishing the roses 

 of this section, is the permanence of their flowers and 

 leaves. 



III. Rosa Sericea. 

 Silky Rose. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTERS. 



Branches, brown, stiff, erect, growing wrinkled with age. 

 Thorns, very large, oval, compressed, the point turned 



upwards, closest under the stipules. 

 Leaves, very close together ; silky on the under surface. 

 Stipules, long, narrow, concave, sharp ; without pubes- 



cence, and toothed at the summit. 

 Leafstalks, naked or rather cottonous, sometimes elon- 



gated, unarmed, or having a few straight thorns, 



interspersed with bristles. 

 Leaflets, seven or eleven; plane, oblong, green and 



naked on the upper surface, paler underneath ; ob- 



tuse, simply and sharply toothed. 

 Flowers, erect, sometimes drooping, solitary, cup-sha- 



ped ; without floral leaves. 

 Flowerstalk, and Calyx, naked. 

 Tube of caly~, oval. 

 Sepals, oval, with a very narrow slightly pubescent 



point. 

 Origin, the valley of Gossan Than, in Nepaul ; sent 



over by Dr. Wallich to Sir Joseph Banks. 



