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glabrous on the upper surface, still greyer beneath, hairy only on the 

 midrib and principal veins, but thinly scattered all over with green 

 viscous glands, the serratui'cs open but not deep, each furnished 

 with several fine gland-tipped teeth, the petioles pubescent and 

 setose and furnished with 2 or 3 falcate aciculi. Stipules glandular 

 on the back or even a little pubescent, the upper ones and the 

 bracts very large, when the plant is in flower quite hiding the 

 short peduncles, the bracts also glandular on the back but not hairy, 

 all finely setoso-ciliated. Peduncles very short and quite naked. 

 Calyx-tube broadly ovate or subglobose, quite naked, glaucous, 

 and tinged with purple. Sepals f to f inch long, naked on the 

 back but somewhat hairy towards the edges, the more luxuriant 

 ones furnished with 3 or 4 erecto-patent toothed pinnas on each 

 side, all copiously setoso-ciliated. Petals deep red, the flowers 

 measuring about 1 inch across. Styles villose. Fruit subglobose, 

 not at all narrowed at the neck, measuring about f inch each way, 

 ripening in September, by which time the erecto-patent sepals 

 have all fallen. 



'• Found by Mr. S. King in the neighbourhood of Luddenden 

 near Halifax, in West Yorkshire." 



England. Shrub. Summer. 



Of this plant I have seen no specimen, so I have extracted Mr. 

 Baker's description from the " Naturalist," not venturing to write a 

 description contrasting it with the other species without having 

 specimens or drawings of the plant before me. 



Mr. Baker considers it as coming near K-. sepium, but differing 

 in the size, shape, and colour of the leaves, with hairy ribs and peti- 

 oles ; also in its peculiar bracts, stipules, and peduncles, subglobose 

 fruit, slightly hairy sepals, and villose styles. 



Short-pedicelled Bose. 



SPECIES XII.— R OSA JUNDZILLIANA. Besser. 

 Baker, in Nat. 1864, p. 65. 



Prickles rather numerous, large, slightly curved, nearly equal, 

 not intermingled with aciculi and gland-tipped setae. Leaflets 

 oval, very acutely doubly-serrate, dull greyish-green and sparingly 

 pubescent but becoming glabrous when mature above, pale hairy 

 on the veins and with numerous viscous glands beneath. Pedicels 

 rather long, with oval bracts, thickly clothed with gland-tipped 

 aciculi. Styles sparingly hairy. Fruit subglobose or broadly 



