374 THE BOOK OP ROSES. 



Thorns, rare, scattered, compressed, and crooked. 



Leaves, distant, glossy. 



Leaflets, three or five ; oval-lanceolated, simply and 



deeply toothed, sometimes notched, thin, plane, 



tinged with purple underneath at the edges, and 



sometimes on the upper surface, when young. 



The terminal leaflet larger than the rest ; the 



inferior pair small ; and on the summit of the 



branches obliterated. 

 Stipules, narrow, flat, glandulous, and slightly seta- 



ceous. 

 Leafstalks, smooth or glandulous ; armed with crooked 



thorns. 

 Flowerstalks, articulated on the branches, very long, 



glandulous, solitary. 

 Floral leaves, narrow, lanceolated ; toothed and fringed 



with glands. 



Flowers, solitary, dark crimson. 

 Tube of calyx, oblong, naked. 

 Sepals, reflexed, deciduous. 

 Disk, thick, conical. 

 Ovules, five. 



Styles, very slender, almost naked, detached, salient. 

 Petals, entire. 

 Fruit, globular. 

 Origin, China. 



1 . Semi-double Purple China. 



Shrub, very small. 



Tube of calyx, rather glandulous, oval-turbinated or 



pyriform. 



Sepals, simple, glandulous. 

 Flowers, middle-sized, or small, semi-double ; of a very 



velvety crimson, the petals reflexed at the edges ; 



from twelve to twenty ovaries. 



