20 THE SUBSECTION EU-CANINZ OF THE GENUS ROSA 
glandular, solitary or in a corymb, usually hidden by broad bracts 
Se 
tose at edges, the other glabrous, glandular-ciliate, reflexed, de- 
ciduous. Styles hispid, a little in a column. Disc a little salient. 
Flowers medi se. Fruit roundish, orange-red.—Like 
h. obtusifolia Desv., but petioles villous and glandular ; leaflets 
glandular-biserrate, glandular on nerves; styles in a column a 
base. Flowers pale rose. Fruit roundish, orange-red.” 
Baker (Review, p. 102 (1864)). ‘Branches usually lithe and 
flexuose, prickles strongly hooked. Leaflets flat, firm, thinly hairy 
very slightly glandular. Teeth open spreading, triangular cuspi- 
‘date, as. broad as. deep, each with land-tipped denticles. 
Terminal broadly ovate, much rounded at -base, and sometimes 
almost as broad as long. - Petioles hairy and setose, and furnished - 
with 3-4 much hooked aciculi. Stipules and bracts hairy on back, 
copiously setoso-ciliate. Peduncles quite naked. | -tube 
ed, subglobose. Petals pale. Sepals leaf-pointed and y 
pinnate, slightly hairy but not at all glandular on the back, 
Mr. Baker’s description agreed very closely with my notion of 
Rf. tomentella, but I think the leaflets are more hai , and very 
secondary es 
except with a lens and in oblique sunlight, but some can be foun 
in most Specimens. e nerves are often salient, as Crépin says, 
) means confined to this species. 
oot Rouy and Déséglise ‘admit plants with slightly gland 
ve iia eh: aac , 
idular 
uncles, the former author crediting var. decipiens Dum. with 
