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often glandular on the back, with broad auricles. Peduncles 
rather densely glandular-aciculate, fruit and back of sepals 
moderately so. Some of the sepals have pinne. The flowers 
are only in bud. 
h 
Sepals entire, 
apparently eglandular on the back, but this cannot be easily 
seen. 
This species runs very near both the last. 
m 
It is normally more densely hairy than either, but the less hairy 
two. It is said to have 
are taken as a guide, quite considerably pin- 
nate sepals are permissible, which breaks down 
: h, : 
think, suc specimens should 
Rosa GRacinis 
Woods in Trans. Linn. Soc. xii. p- 186 (1818). 
“Ri. ebracteata caulibus setigeris, calycibus simplicibus, foliis 
duplicato-serratis, utrinque hirsutis, aculeis majoribus faleatis.— 
Shrub 8 to 10 ft. high. “Branches gling, deep brown, prickly 
and setose, the larger prickles faleate, sub-binary, stipular, the 
smaller scattered, straight, having the form of sete, and ultimately 
converted into them. Petioles villous glandular, furnished 
with small faleate acicles. Stipules linear acuminate, glandular- 
_ Serrate, subglabrous, the floral broader and at length by the 
absence of leaflets becoming small ovate acuminate bracts. 
