440 ROSACER. [ Rosa. 
tube and sometimes united. Ripe carpels dry and hairy, sometimes 
surrounded with pulp and enclosed in the more or less succulent 
calyx-tube, forming a spurious berry.—Erect or climbing shrubs, 
rarely small trees, usually prickly armed, with unpaired-pinnate 
leaves. Stipules leafy, adherent to the petiole. Flowers showy, 
solitary or in small terminal corymbs or panicles. 
* Styles united in a column. Flowers corymbose. 
Flowers small, pink; calyx glabrous or pubescent, the lobes short 
and entire; leaflets small, pubescent beneath ; stipules pin- 
natifid . 5 . : : = . : = : 
Flowers large, white; calyx glandular-tomentose, of the lobes 
usually one or more lobed ; leaflets glabrous ; stipules entire. R. moschata. 
* * Styles free. 
© Calyx-throat not closed by the disk. 
Flowers large, usually corymbose ; calyx glabrous or sparingly 
glandular ; leaflets glabrous, glaucous beneath ; ovaries about 
50 ‘ 
. R. multiflora. 
40- . . . . ° . °. . . . 
As former, but flowers. solitary; ovaries only about 15 ‘ . 
Flowers solitary ; calyx-tube and the globose fruit densely echi- 
nate; leaflets small . R. microphylla. 
e . . . * ° > . 
© Calyx-throat completely closed by the disk. 
Calyx and branchlets, and also the globose fruits, densely to- 
men . : : rae recy ee. - R. involuerata. 
Calyx and peduneles hispid ; leaflets wrinkled, opaque. . + R. rubiginosa. 
1. BR. involucrata, Roxb.—A meagre straggling shrub, the 
branches more or less tomentose and armed with compressed, strong, 
flowers large, whit 
gether, on short densely tomentose pubescent pedicels and usually 
, led 3 age 
large and thickened, long; styles villous, a little exserted; fruits 
‘globular, thick, tomentose. 
Has.—Ava, in the savannahs of the Irrawaddi valley from Mandalay north- 
wards.—Fl. Febr.-March.—1—SS.—=AlL. 
___ Many other species of roses are found cultivated around 
khyouks of Burma, amongst which Rosa damascena and &. Indica 
really distinct from one another) are the more common. - I have 
above a conspectus of the species found cultivated, but it is 
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