ROSA INCONSPICUA 53 
Rosa INCONSPICUA 
Déséglise in Catalogue Raisonné, p. 188 (1877). 
“ Shrub with numerous prickles, dilated at the base, recurved 
at tips or almost straight, in a spiral forming almost a whor 
the leaflets, glan : kly. Le 5-7, oval-acute, oval- 
e =_— some subobtuse, of medium size, glabro ee ove, 
glaucous or glaucescent beneath, th it e 
seers doubly dentate, the secondary teeth glandular. Stipules 
glabrous, gland-ciliate. litany ot acute, straigh i 
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ages, salient in bud, shorter than the corolla, not : oe 
Styles hispid. Dise more or less elevated. Flowers rather large, 
rose. Fruit ovoid.” 
On one of the specimens in his herbarium Déséglise writes out 
almost word for word the same description as the above, with the 
important omission of any reference to a spiral or eo arrange- 
ment of se prickles, lero = meg as hooked. SO says 
brous. Peduncles with a few scattered donde sete. Calyx- 
tube glabrous.” Its differences from verticillacantha have been 
detailed under that species 
Specimens named by Déséglise commonly have their prickles 
n pairs or in whorls of 3-4. The leaflets are rather close set, 
ebooet elliptical, frequently subobtuse, instead of the widely. 
spaced, rather large coors bs gcateeat narrowed at each end, of 
andegavensis. The toothing is quite double and glandular. 
The petioles are ectisthebatte glandular, and the glands usually 
— to = midrib, but never to the side nerves. The fruit 
ovoid, usually shorter than in verticilacantha, — ay 
deseatpebis: ‘the reverse should be the s 
rather = reflexed or spreading, aa. ie ante oe 533 
ag rou 
bes are five British examples in herb. Déséglise. One 
eotisetad by Mr. Baker at Myson, Warwick, and unnamed by him, 
has almost lanceolate leaflets, ioe glandular biserra te. Its fruit 
g 
and ” * . 
labelled “Rh. sad a towards marginata, has O pisbles in 
threes to fours, elliptical leaflets, petioles quite pubescent and 
