ROSA FQTIDA 95 
Rosa F@TIDA 
Bastard, Essai sur la Fl. de Maine et Loire, Suppl. p. 29 (1812). 
‘“Rose with ovate calyx and peduncles hispid. Petioles 
prickly, prickles scattered and straightish. Leaflets ovate, acute, 
pubescent bene Severs nching shrub, with prithkiss little curved, 
scattered. Tobdiat ovate, acute, pubescent beneath. Flowers 
solitary. Balaakie ot fruit hispid. Flowers rose. —This rose 
owes its name to the disagreeable odour ow om stn srrisrooont 
when rubbed. It seems to have some relation to R. collina Jacq., 
— is probably not that of the French Flora, for sts latter has 
ts peduncles — — glabrous, while Jacquin says the peduncles 
aA glandu 
nless it be “the odour, which is not easily defined, and not 
pe ee apie in the herbarium, there is ie in Bastard’s de- 
pti 
are cere emareis ola ere leaflets 5-7, all ste tolaial 
the terminal rounded and sometimes a little iotdats at the base, 
oval, acute, almost glabrous above, valent greyish, and sprinkled 
with scattered glands beneath, nerved, doubly dentate, with open, 
glandular teeth ; peduncles solitary or grouped in 2 to 4, hispid- 
glandular, furnished at their base with oval acuminate bracts, 
glabrous above, pubescent and glandular beneath, almost equalling 
or shorter than the peduncles; calyx-tube ovoid oblong, hispid; 
sepals covered with glands, pinna aad 2 one mee epee 
persistent; styles glabrineg, dise sa shes tbr light rose ; 
ovoid, ae red. It differs from R. ra rubigi nosa by its turpentiny 
odour, by its n —— te prickles, its oval acute leaflets, greyish 
pubescent and scattered glandular beneath, its calyx-tube ovoid 
oblong, hispid, its. machen larger, light rose, and its ovoid, dirty 
red fruit.’”’ This comparison with R. rubiginosa seems superfluous, 
as it does not in the least resemble it, but Déséglise (J. c.) placed 
it among the Rubiginose. In the Cat. Raison., however, he ‘ead 
ferred it to the Tomentosa. 
There is a specimen at Kew which was sent by Bastard to 
Gay. It has a. suiy: straight or somewhat curved prickles. 
Leaflets oval or ovate acuminate, rather thinly pubescent both 
sides when jena | with rather few but fairly conspicuous green 
lands beneath. Petioles densely pubescent, a good deal glan- 
me hook i 
hispid-glandular. Sopa aly reflexed on n young fruit, consider- 
ably pinnate. ae oy te glabrous. 
Déséglise has a oonbiderable number of specimens, covering 
much =< of variatio oe Their 1 aieror en ve usually stout and — 
ing th The petioles vary greatly in pu 
scence, but are _——_ a ‘good deal glandular, though not much 
