62 THE SUBSECTION EU-CANINA OF THE GENUS ROSA 
acuminate, erect. Peduncles 2-7, with some stalked glands, but 
ak and few. SBracts broad, oval-cuspidate, glabrous, gland- 
a usually longer than the peduncles, and often also a small 
orter than the peduncles. Calyx-tube ovoid, hispid at the 
base. tae phir haga ekra eee ve with linear 
nee ular. en Road. Auricles scximinate, erect. Peduncles 
less Foe Styles hispid, not villou 
Baker, in Review, p. 34, a :—*Stem dark purple, 
spas when exposed. Branches more divaricate than usual, 
prickles less robust and less curved. Leaves somewhat glaucous 
green above, decidedly glaucous ae glabrous both sides, but 
glandular on midrib and slightly so on surface beneath. Serra- 
tions gat einer ae and Spee each with 2-3 fine sand tipped 
teeth. Terminal ically o rather obovate. Petioles 
prickly and any setose, ag rr hae Beveled and bracts 
not hairy but a little glandular on backs, and copiously setoso- 
ciliate. Peduncles slightly aciculate and setose. Calyx-tube 
naked, subglobose. Sepals leaf- potted and copiously ee 
glandular all over the back, erect after the petals fall. Frui 
obovate or subglobose, scarlet early in September, by which ne 
some of the sepals have fallen, others remaining. Styles rather 
thickly hairy.’ 
n the Monograph Mr. Baker calls this R. marginata Wallr., 
gi vite much the same description, but describes the leaves as 
oblong, with the veins unusually prominent beneath; the sepals 
ascending after the petals fall, becoming disarticulated b by the 
time the fruit has turned red; styles cg anne hairy. He quotes 
as a synonym fi. trachyphylla var. nuda Gre 
I have seen two foreign specimens of R. Bl @ana named by 
ipart. One, in herb. Dés séglise, has quite ordinary prickles, 7. ¢. 
not aa ate the tree as described. The petioles are glabrous, 
but den The eadints are small, not ad, often 
obtuse, fi ndular-biserrate, the midrib prominent below with 
small chase peeiniia glands which extend to the tk nerves, also 
with micro-glands all over the lower surface. ort, 
neles sh 
thinly hispid-glandular. Fruit ovoid, large. Style es tally hispid. 
This specimen, it will be seen, agrees very closely with the 
scription. 
The other specimen of Ripart’s was os lent me by Messrs 
Groves. It has almost unarmed flowering-branches. Pe tioles 
ae moderately or thinly placate. The leaflets are rather 
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