ROSA DUMALIS 37 
Strong, reddish. Leaflets large. Peduncles seems 
ate Leaflets feebly biserrate. Peduncles solilaey, or wens . 
R. dumalis Bechst 
minent veins beneat. errata Mér. 
Sepals reflexed. Stylesrather long. Veins of leaflets not prominent. 
R. eriostyla Rip. & Déségl. 
le spreading, often suberect. Styles short. Leaflets with ait 
bis, 
Rosa DUMALIS 
Bechstein, Forstbotanik, p. 227 (1810). 
I have not been able to obtain access to the first edition pub- 
lished in 1810, and the following is extracted from the second, 
dated 1843, p. mised rey sear solitary, ovoid, smooth. Sepals 
long, smooth, pinn Leaves smooth, oval, pointed, doubly 
too ce, Petioles piece ates itibe: Petioles and stem with 
scattered somewhat hooked prickles.” The followin also 
abridged from p. 582 of the same edition :—‘‘ A somewhat smaller, 
denser, and more spreading bush than the dog-rose, 
rusty brown, or greyish. Young twigs either wholly 
ty greenish, 
red-brown, or dull green on the shaded parts, and shining red- 
brown in es sun, smooth and whitish only on one or two side 
shoots, brown-yellow when old, rose-red when young. The leaves 
are unequally incised, shining and smooth above. Petioles with 
scattered glands in the upper part, with a long naked part and 
with broadly subulate prickles. Stipules ares red-glandular. 
Leaflets usually five, 1-1} in. long by 4-3 in - broad, roundish 
: ers 1-3, on peduncles 
of medium length. Calyx-tube and sepals smooth, whitish inside 
and the shape of those of canina. Petals rose-red, emarginate. 
Fruit ovoid, roundish, inflated, large, sometimes rounded below, 
little pointed above. Sepals mostly persistent, spreading.” 
Baker’s description in Review, p. 25, is as follows :— 
green or glaucous, not flat, firm, glabrous _ both sides ; terminal 
ovate, narrowed or somewhat rounded a the serrations 
aay so numerous nor so close as in Pr sees each or several 
and bracts naked on y se uncles 
yx-tube and fruit ing from ovate urceolate to sub- 
globose. Sepals cin gi —— = pinnate, naked or slightly 
hairy on back to es, more or less densely setoso- 
ciliate. Fruit as in cea ‘eienal. Styles hairy, sometimes a 
little protrud 
Déséglise’s description in “ oo Monographique,”’ p.. i, i 
essentially the sam ut poe or slightly 
ers from it as Selicio? — Poticles somew. 
glandular with broad stipules, the upper dilated large cae ara 
hiding the rather short peduncles. Leaflets rather er large. Calyx- 
