ROSA SUBERTI 49 
Rosa SuBERTI 
Ripart ex Déséglise, Catalogue Raisonné, p. 183 (1877). 
‘Habit of R. andegavensis. Prickles on branches dilated, 
compressed at base, hooked or incli aun at summit. Petioles 
giatrone: with scattered glands, some unarmed, some sien. 
s 5-7, oval-acute or obtuse, gistons, green above, glau- 
iestent beneath, the midrib often with small acicles, biserrate. 
Stipules narrow, glabrous, gland. ciliate, auricles acute, straight or 
iverging ; some stipules are glandular on the back. Peduncles 
solitary or 2-3, feebly hispid, page oval diaipidate bracts, glabrous, 
eee pee ciliate, longer than or equalling peduncles. Calyx-tube 
ovoid elongate, a little ehearaterse atthe top, glabrous. Sepals with 
thinly scattered glands on back, two entire with tomentose edges, 
three pinnatifid with glandular-ciliate appendages, salient in bud, 
shorter than corolla, not ai acre Styles hispid. Dise almost 
flat. Flowers light rose. Fruit ovoid or obovoid, red.” 
ere is considerable disa nite in the characters assigned 
by various authors to this species which I do not think it would 
be profitable to transcribe, because Déséglise’s description, sat 
T have given above, is said by him to be drawn up fro i 
own notes and specimens ; mi I have seen four of Ripart’s own 
specimens. 
Ripart, in his face associates R. Suberti with R. Lemaitrei and 
other non-British species in a group having biserrate leaflets and 
subglabrous or thinly hairy styles, but — not discriminate 
between the individuals of the group. There are three of his 
specimens in herb. Déséglise. They have ceedicite -sized, fully 
hiegeenes leaflets, which are somewhat elliptical and often slightly 
narrowed below. The petioles are very glandular, and the 
riba: decidedly so. The stipules are very glandular on their 
edges and midribs, but not on the surface. The peduncles vary 
in length, and are quite hispid-glandular, but not the calyx-tube. 
The sepals are strongly glandular-ciliate, but not obviously glan- 
dular on the backs. Ve mae x ttle fruit is formed, but what there is 
irre 
dular on midrib. Petioles a good deal glandular, but glabrous 
Peduncles longish, gaara hispid-glandular. Sepals slightly 
soid. Styles glabrous 
pecimen te Brigg nds, Devon, and 
remarkably open biserrate teeth, the petioles finely pubescent 
or mg, and not much glandular. Peduncles very little 
Bemtnlae. 
- pecies seems to be too tool allied to R. Lemaitret Rip. 
. oe ‘oy “tangible difference which I can see is that it has its 
leaflets more decidedly biserrate. 
JouRNAL oF Botany, June, 1908. [SUPPLEMENT.] 9 
