88 THE SUBSECTION BYrOaANIn OF THE GENUS ROSA 
counties and from the ea oa but specimens I have seen do 
ot in the least agree with the original or with its description, 
even making due allowance for aca variation. Its small size, . 
grey glaucous hue, the shape, clothing, and dentition of its leaflets, 
9 very slightly hispid crim and its oa hairy styles, mark 
well. It is near R. canescens er, that has uniserrate 
leaflets and smooth ign 1 It is an near FR. c@sia var. 
ana Woods, w 
d Pp “s 
opinion to which I strongly — but I think its reflexed eopala 
and somewhat less woolly styles (in some authentic specimens 
nryore are a yeas) are sufficient to justify its retention under 
Rosa LUCANDIANA 
shee & a in Observations sur plusieurs de la Flore 
Francaise (Bull. Soc. Roy. de bot. Belg. xix. 188 
“Tall. Branches flexuose, elongate, with eee ies or 
unarmed. Prickles on main stem robust, ted at base, curved 
or hooked, whitish. Branches wnarmed, or =e rare red curved 
opposite prickles. Petioles — or thinly so, scattered glan- 
dular and prickly. Leaflets 5 to 7, green, glabrous above, pale 
and villous on midrib and ba aie, termin a ied, -acute or 
subacute, rounded or a little narrowed at base, the lateral more 
obtuse, seth dentate, with stihestnmats glandular and ciliate teeth. 
Stipules narrow, on young rather broader, gla- 
brous, indaliy cuspidate, glandular-ciliate. ne straight or 
diverging. Peduscies 1 to 5, glabrous, scattered harry, or glandular 
in the same Fe ic ri racts more or less broad, often ees 
oe glabrous, appen ages lanceolate, denticulate, salient in bud, 
ter than ed but persistent. Styles short, hispid. 
Dise vif Corolla light rose, petals emarginate. Fruit red, ovoid 
rm.” 
e, rather broadly oval, somewhat rounded at 
base, moderately areata glandular-biserrate. They are glabrous 
above, hairy on nerves beneath, and glandular on the midrib. The 
petioles are shortly but ‘atee, densely pubescent, and a good deal 
glandular, but variable in this res e flowers are three to 
six in a cluster, some peduncles glan rsa Sa some not, but 
they are short and partly hidden by bracts. The sepals are gland- 
ciliate, ag not oes n backs. Styles villous. Fruit too 
yo mg determine its 
