ROSA OMISSA 71 
R. Sherardi, have applied the name of R. subglobosa Sm., J 
is ae ety to globose-fruited forms of the tomentosa group, a 
well as to the true species of Davies, and have also so labellod 
plants with abviots subfoliar glands, which, if not semanas 
are at least very untypical. Continental botanists, no doubt mis- 
led by British opinion, have also placed R. subglobosa Sm. weaae 
i. tomentosa, though I find the een = the specimens referred 
thereto are good R. Sherardi. It is the presence of such ex- 
amples that obscures the Contiwenitael ee of division between the 
two hes aa 
d 
re in small clusters, the central ones not appreciably obovoid 
or pyriform, on moderately lon duncles, and spreading erect 
decidedly pin ate sepals, which persist till the frui lis 
styles are villous the five . which follow a only 
central fruit. Var. swbmollis Ley is even nearer, and pecdhe d differs 
but by its straighter prickles and more ovoi ruit. Var. pseudo- 
mollis K. G. Baker has somewhat mss falcate prickles, slightly 
glandular leaflets, and more ovoid fruit. Var. wncinata Lees is 
o very near, and differs chiefly in nis very hooked though not 
stout prickles and glandular lea fi oe Crép., 
omissa. 
ny of the plants labelled R. Andrzetovit Stev. on the Conti- 
nent are probably referable to R. Sherardi, which will I think 
prove to be a common and generally distributed species. 
Rosa OMISSA 
Déséglise in Billotia, p. 47 (1864). 
“Shrub 1-14 m. high, i a dense very tufted bush with a 
greyish look, branches usually flexuous. Prickles compressed, 
ose and scattered glandular, y 7, all 
petioluled, the terminal a little rounded or narrowed at base, oval- 
elliptical, rounded at both site, og oval and ending an 
point, greyish pat del or tomentose both sides, scattered glan- 
dular beneath, doubly dentate, ciliate, with glandular secondary 
