Evbus] XLVI. ROSACEA 287 



of Burma. Western Ghats from Mahableshwar southwards, Bababudan hills, Mysore. 

 Lower Palais, 4,000 ft. Javadi hills, 3,000 ft. PI. March-May in the North, Jan.- 

 Feb. in the South.— Ceylon 3-6,000 ft.. Java. It, follo*u*, Don, PI. Brit. End, U.340, is 

 a prostrate form of 24, with smaller leaflets. 



25. R. racemosus, Roxb. Nilgiris, Palnis. Closely allied to 24. with copious glandular 

 hairs and short bristles, leaflets broadly ovate, calyx prickly, petals red, large. 26. 

 R. opulifolius, Bertol. Khasi hills. Branchlets, petioles and inflorescence densely 

 woolly-tomentose, 1. coriaceous, densely clothed beneath with white wool, fl. in short 

 compact woolly and glandular hairy racemes, petals small, red. 27. R. pungens, Camb. 

 Kashmir. Branchlets trailing, with numerous straight prickles, leaflets bright green 

 on both sides. PI. nearly 4 in. across, on long slender pedicels, solitary or 2—3 together, 

 calyx densely prickly. 



28. R. rosaefolius, Smith: Brandts F. Fl. 198. Vern. Yeshul, Kurnaon. 



A spreading shrub, glabrous or glandular-hairy, prickles on branches and 

 petioles. Leaflets 1-3 pair, green on both surfaces, lanceolate, deeply serrate or 

 lobed, stipules subulate. Fl. J-l in. across, in lax panicles, petals white, 

 exceeding the calyx, fr. cylindric, of innumerable minute orange-red drupes, 

 edible. 



Himalaya, Kumaon to Sikkim, 4-7,000 ft. Khasi hills, Manipur. Burma hills above 

 3,000 ft. PI. April.— Java. Often cultivated with double flowers. 



Potentilla fruticosa, Linn. Himalaya. Kashmir to Sikkim, from 8,000 ft. to the Snow 

 limit, Caucasus, Armenia, Northern Asia. Mountains of Europe and polar regions of 

 North America. A small stiff branched shrub, 1. pinnate, leaflets 3-7, J-J in. long, silky. 

 ~i ipules large, membranous, adnate to petiole. Fl. yellow, solitary, nearly 1 in. across, 

 bracteoles entire or bifid, alternating with calyx-segments. A low spreading shrub in 

 ilayara 8,000 ft. with white fl. is perhaps P.fruticosa var. ochreata. 



7. ROSA, Linn.; Fl. Brit. Ind. ii. 363. 



Erect or climbing shrubs, as a rule prickly. Leaves imparipinnate, stipules 

 more or less adnate to petiole. Fl. in terminal corymbs or panicles, rarely 

 solitary. Calyx-tube persistent in fruit, mouth contracted, limb divided iuto 

 5 rarely 4 leafy segments. Ovaries x. rarely few, free, enclosed in the calyx- 

 tulie, the styles protruding and in some species united. Fr. a pulpy or diy 

 red or black berry, enclosing numerous dry [-seeded very hairy carpels. Species 

 LOO, temperate regions of the northern hemisphere, a few species within the 

 tropics. 



A. Styles distinct, calyx-segments deciduous. 



R. damascena, Mill. Golab) is th • rosa chiefly cull ivated for Attar and Hose water. 



I. R. involucrata, Roxb.; Wight L*c. t. 234; Kurz P. Fl. i. 140.— Syn. 

 /,'. byellii, Lindl. ; Brandis F. Fl. 199. 



A large shrub, branches arching, branchlets and inflorescence densely grey- 

 tomentose, prickles straight, frequently in pairs at the nodes. Leaflets .'5-1 

 pair, elliptic-oblong, finely serrate, l-ll in. long, upper surface shining, si ipules 

 small, laciniate. Fl. white, fragrant, 2 3 in. across, bracts broad, serrate. 

 Fr. .1 in. long, densely tomentose. 



Nepal, Gorakhpur, Gongetic plain in 9wamps and on banks of rivers and lakes. Silhet, 

 Assam. Manipur, banks of rivers, Mounl Abu. tjpper Burma. PI. Feb. March. 2. 

 R. anserinsefolia, Boiss., Afghanistan, Baluchistan Sural), Woziristan, Kui un valley, 

 prickles curved, leaflets elliptic, sharply serrate, J } in. long, pubescent on both - 

 tl. I in. across. In Journ. Linn. Soc, \ is. 161 and xxviii.815 this is called R. /•'• ggt riana, 

 Sohrenk. 



8. R. gfgantea, t lollel i : Journ. Linn. So,-, xxviii. t. 9, Manipur 6,000 fl . Shan bills, 



1 5,000 ft. Yunnan. A powerful climber, stems thick, branches with stout flat prickles, 



made into walking sticks. PI. mostly solitary, white 8 5 in. across, fr. globose, I. R. 



Coiiettii, Crepin ; Journ. I. inn. Soo. satviii. t. 10. Shan hills 8 1,000 ft., on banks of 



breams, leaflets 8 pair, fl. corj moose, I in. across. 



