Appendix -The Botany of the Rose. 



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composed of three ovate-lanceolate leaflets, pale beneath, with a prickly mid-rib. Thf> flowers 

 are large, white, solitary, succeeded by elliptic orange red muricate fruits, crowned with 

 spreading rigid undivided sepals. It is a native, not of China, but the Southern United State?. 

 A supposed third species, R. Fortuneana (Lindl.), figured and described at tab. 171 of Paxton's 



Fig. 66. ROSA BRACTEATA. 



Flower Garden, imported from China by Fortune, is probably, as suggested by Hemsley, a 

 hybrid between Banksice and indica. 



The fourth group, BBACTEAT^:, is characterised by its main prickles in pairs at the base 

 of the leaves, copious aciculi, deeply laciniated bracts and stipules, glossy coriaceous leaflets, 



Fig. 67. ROSA CINNAMONEA. 



very short pedicels, very numerous stamens and persistently hairy fruit. There are only two 

 closely allied species, the Macartney Rose, R. bracteata (Wendl.) (see Fig. 66), which was 

 introduced from China in 1795, and R. invohicrata (Roxb.), R. Lyellii (Lindl.), a native of the 

 North of India. 



