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able for the ee tint of its Scat and above all for a very 
agreeable and very pronounced smell o musk.” 
In Journ. oe Bot. 1813, ii. p. 143, Desvaux says :—‘ Styles 
glabrous, united into a more or less elongate column, sometimes 
alycine divisions pinnatitid. Leaflets with entire 
teeth, veins pubescent. Fruit toblong. Peduncles glandular-hispid. 
lowers ate h white.’ 
Desvaux’s figure xv. (J. c.) represents a plant practically 
identical vith his figure xiv. of R. systyla, but with shorter 
styles, which are not essential, and with fewer but equally stout 
prickles. 
Mr. Rogers in Report of Bot. Exch. Club 2 1888, p. 227, thus 
describes f. leucochroa Desv., which he kno well, and which 
toothed and teually dark green), make the bush easily recogniz- 
able. The fruit is ssdarly oval, with a disc as prominent as in 
I have seen many bushes of | his i in Devonshire, and can endorse 
the foregoing except that the prickles should be described as 
slender for the group, more so than in either systyla or obtusifolia, 
but long on much hooked. The disc is remarkable for being so 
referred to a Desegli. ts are dark shining green, 
rather or quite small, but often more acuminate than one would 
infer from Mr. Rogers's notes. They are sometimes seadat d 
occasionally oe glabrous vod but the petioles are always 
have not seen it in flower, so cannot endorse Des- 
vaux’s remark about their inn 
There is a specimen at Kew from Desvaux. It i is only the end 
of a flowering-branch and is quite unarmed. Its leaflets are of 
medium size, acute not acuminate, but it agrees otherwise with 
~ above. A specimen in herb. Déséglise, however, authenti- 
cated by Desvaux, is indistinguishable from R. systyla, of which 
rickles, 3, tather large, a leaflets, hairy on _ nerves 
