364 Lt. EOSACBiE. (J. D. Hooker.) [_Bosa. 



A. 8tt/les distinct. 



I. Bractbat^. Fruit and tranchlets densely tomentose; prickles twin, mostly 

 infra-stipular ; flowers bracteate ; sepals deciduous. 



1. B. Ltelui, {vaiAaiingB.invohuyrata). See below. 



2. E. BRACTEATA, Wendl. ; flowers large white, calyx-tube clothed with prickles. 

 — The Macartney rose. China. 



11. Eglantebia, Prickles some stout and some slender ; flowers yellow or red ; 

 sepals persistent. 



3. B. Eglanteria, Mill. See below. 



4. B. sutPHDBEA, Ait. ; leaflets 7 whitish beneath, flowers large yellow double. 

 B. Bapini, Boiss. Fl. Orient, ii. 672. Asia Minor to Persia. 



III. Galucs ; erect, prickles mixed with glandular bristles ; leaflets rugose ; 

 flowers rosy or purple ; sepals more or less pinnatifld. 



6. B. DAMASCENA, Mill. ; Wall. Cat. 68-1 ; pickles unequal, larger hooked, sepals 

 reflexed in flower. — The commonest Indian garden rose ; cultivated for Attar. Native 

 country unknovm. 



6. E. CENTiFOLiA, lann.; Boxb. Fl. Ind. ii. 513; prickles unequal large hooked, 

 bristles numerous, leaflets and calyx glandular-ciliate, flowers nodding. — The Cab- 

 bage, Moss, and Provence roses. — Caucasus and Assyria. 



7. B. Gallica, lAnn. ; prickles slender equal, flowers erect. — Europe, Asia 

 Minor. 



IV. Caking. Prickles uniform ; bristles ; flowers purple red, rosy or white. 



8. B. iNDicA, Linn. ; Wall. Cat. 85, 685 ; evergreen, glabrous, stipules very nar- 

 row adnate almost to the top, flowers large on long pedicels rarely single, sepals re- 

 flexed. B. cbinensis, Jacq. ; Roxb. Fl. hid. ii. 513. B. sinica, lAnn. B. fragrans, 

 Eedoute ; E. semperfloreus, Bot. Mag. t. 284 ; Boxb. Fl. Ind. u. 514 ; Wcdl. Cat. 686.— 

 The Indian, China, Bengal and Tea roses, and hybrid perpetuals belong here. China. 



9. B. MiCBOPHTiLA, Littdl. Bot. Beg. t. 919; Boxb. Fl. Ind. ii. 515 ; Bot. Mag. t. 

 3490 ; Wall. Cat. 692 ; branehlets flexuous, prickles infra-stipular, leaflets 9-15 small, 

 scape densely prickly, sepals short broad-toothed, flowers large double rosy. — China. 



10. E. AXBA, Linn. ; leaflets 6-7 large grey rugose downy and pale beneath, 

 flowers large white pale or blush double, sepals often pinnatifld. B. glandulifera, 

 Boxb. Fl. Ind. ii. 514. — Caucasus, Afighanistan ? 



V. Banksian^. Climbing ; stipules small, often deciduous ; flowers rather small, 

 corymbose. 



11. E. Bakksls, Br. ; unarmed, leaflets 3 or 5 shining, flowers white or yellow. 

 Bot. Mag. t. 1954; Bot. Beg. t. 1105. B. menms, Boxb. Fl. Ind. ii. 616.— China, 

 Japan. 



12. E. jncROCAEPA, Lindl. ; prickles hooked, leaflets usually 3 shining, flowers 

 white, sepals deciduous, fruit small globose red. — China. 



13. E. SINICA, Ait. -.Bot. Mag. t. 2847; Bot. Beg. t. 1922; Wall. Gat. 694; 

 prickles red hooked, leaflets 3 sinning, flowers solitary large white, peduncles and 

 calyx clothed with straight prickles, fruit muricate crowned with the spreading sepals. 

 E. triphylla, Roxb. Fl. Ind. ii. 515. — China, Japan. 



14. E. FoETUNEANA, lAndl. ; prickles small hooked, leaflets 3 or 6 dark shining, 

 flowers solitary white double, peduncles short bristly, calyx naked and glabrous. — 

 China. 



B. Styles united in a column ; flovoers corymbose ; prickles uniform. 

 18. B. MOSCHATA. See below. 



16. E. SEMPEHVLEENS. See below. 



17. B. MULTiFLORA, Tkunb. ; Bot. Mag. t. 1059; Bot. Beg. t. 425 ; stipules and 

 bracts pectinate ; flowers double rosy ; petioles and inflorescence with long soft hairs 

 and no glands ; sepals broad ovate. — Japan, China. 



