466 BENGAL PLANTS. [Rosa, 
: 310, Rosa Linn. 
Shrubs, erect, sarmentose, or climbing, usually prickly ; leaves 
pinnately 8- or more- foliolate ; leaflets more or less serrate; 
mouth ; aphiae 8 leafy, persistant or deciduous, nae Petals 
normally 5, in cultivation often many. Disk lining and almost 
occluding the calyx-tube, silky. Stamens many, inserted on the 
disk. Carpels many, rarely few, in the bottom of the calyx-tube; 
styles subterminal, free or connate upwards; stigma thickened ; 
ovule solitary, pendulous. Fruit a fleshy calyx-tube (rose-hip), _ 
enclosing a cluster of coriaceous or bony achenes. Seeds small. 
Fruit and branchlets densely tomentose ; flowers subsessile, white, single, 
strongly P t-scented, surrounded by large, pectinate, wouny bracts 
Peter twit eto 
Fruit and branches without tomentum ; flowers stalked, often double, 
not bractea: tel 
Prickles nae with often glandular bristles; flowers delicately 
Scented, rose or purple 
Prickles unequal, the araee ones hooked :— 
ristles few; nepal reflexed in flower ...........sseeeee0 a 
P aio, equal, slender; flowers erect ..1......e0eeeceeseeeseeeeets se at 
Prickles not mixed with b bristles; flowers purple, rose, oF W 
strongly scented :— 
Prickles equal ; Spell reflexed in flower :— ag 
Vale eecots ee i : 
Calyx-tube Sn ; indica (emperforen 
Prickles somewhat MOGQUAL of 
787. Rosa mvovcrata Roxb.; F. I. ii. 518; F. B. I. ii. 3655 
E. D. R. 582. 
eer Nagpur ; N. and E. Bengal. 
A shrub, grows naturally in places usually submerged : 
during the rainy season. Wild Rose of Bengal. 
788. Rosa pamascena Mill.; F. B. L. ii. 864; E. D. RB. 508. 
In gardens, frequent ; cultivated for Attar. 
A small, erect shrub. Vernac. Gulab. 
