366- LI, BOSACBJ!. (J. D. Hooker.) \_Bosdl 



** Sepals persistent in fruit. 



3. R. macropbylla, lAnM. Monogr. Ros. 35, t. 6 ; prickles straight or 

 0, glandular and pubescent or not, leaflets elliptic-ovate acuminate or «ute 

 iinely serrate, bracts large, flowers solitary or corymbose red, sepals very long 

 tips filiform often dilated and serrate. Srandis For. Flor. 203 ; Wall. Plant. 

 As. Mar. ii. 19, t. 117 ; Cat. 690 ; D<m Prodr. 235 ; a-epin in Bvll. Soc. Sot. 

 Belg. xiii. 284, xiv. 167. R. Hofiineisteri and Gulielmi Waldemarii, Klotzsch 

 in Sets. Pr. Waldem. Bot. 153, t. 7, 8. B. Hookeriana, Bertol. Misc. Bot. 

 xxiv. 14, t. 1. 



Temperate Himalaya, from Muebbe, alt. 3500-10,000 ft. to Sikkim, alt. 

 8-10,000 ft.— DisTBiB. China. 



Erect ; prickles straight or slightly curved, with broad dilated bases. Leaves 

 2-8 in. ; leaflets ^2 in., usually pubescent beneath, base acute rarely rounded ; pe- 

 tiole pubescent ; stipules large, broad, spreading. Flowers 1-3^ in. diam., bright red, 

 peduncles pedicels and calyx usually very bristly and glandular ; bracts fohaceous, 

 oblong or lanceolate, glandular on the margin. Galyx-tlibe ^I^ in. ; lobes 1-2 in., 

 persistent. Petals broadly obcordate. Fruit sometimes 2 in. long ; styles hairy, as- 

 serted ; achenes large, oiben ^ in. long, few or many. 



Vab. minor, Lindl. I.e. ; leaflets Jin. often obtuse, flowers 1-1 J in. diam. 



Tab. Sookeriana ; nearly unarmed, leaves very pubescent, peduncles and calyx 

 hardly glandular. E. Hookeriana, Wall. Cat. 691, «o< of Bertol. B. torulosa. Wall.' 



Msa. 



4. R. Egrlanteria, Idnn. ; DC. Prodr. ii. 607 ; erect, branches with 

 straight prickles, branchlets prickly and bristly or naked pubescent, rarely gla- 

 brous, leaflets deeply doubly-glandular-serrate, hairy and glandular beneath, 

 flowers fpw yellow, calyx-tube hemispheric or globose. B. lutea. Mill. ; Boiss. 

 Flor. Orient, ii. 671 ; Bot. Mag. t. 363 ; Brandis For. Flor. 201. E. bicolor, 

 Jacq. Hort. Find. i. t. 1. (The Austrian rose.) 



Drier parts of the inner Himalaya, from Kjshtwab westward and in Wbstbbh 

 T iBBr, alt. 8-11,000 ft.— DisTKiB. Afghanistan and westward to Asia Minor, and 

 northward to Siberia. 



A small bush, very leafy ; prickles slender, much compressed, psile. Leaves 

 1^-3 in., leaflets 2-4 pair, J-^ in. ; petiolulate, elliptic-obovate or orbicular, obtuse 

 or apiculate, rather membranous, glabrous or sparsely hairy above ; petiole pubes- 

 cent and glandular ; stipules broad, free portion half ovate, toothed. Flowers 

 2-2 J in. diam. ; pedicel often glabrous ; bracts ovate-lanceolate, long-acuminate, glan' 

 dular. Cah/x-tube glabrous, unarmed or prickly ; lobes long-acuminate, tomentose, 

 persistent, entire or with marginal laciniae ; tips usually dilated. Petals obcordate, 

 variable in depth of colour. 



5. R. Webbiana. Wall. Cat. 683; erect, pricHea pale, bristles 0, 

 leaflets oblong or orbicular, flowers subsoUtary, calyx-tube usually glandular^ 

 bristly, sepals exceeding the petals, fruit ovoid or globose. Boi/le III. 208, 

 t. 42; Orepin in Bull. Soc. Bot. Belg. xiii. 274; Brandis For. Flor. 202. 

 B. unguicularis, Bei-tol. Misc. xxii. 15, t. 3. B. pimpinellifolia, Serb. Ind. 

 Or. Sook. f. Sr T. 



Drier inner Himalaya, from Kashhib to KrKAON and WKSTEBif TmBT, alt. 

 S-13,-500 ft. 



Glatrous, or with pubescent petioles and leaves beneath ; glandular hairs or 

 confined to the inflorescence ; prickles copious, J-| in., straight or curved, with long 

 bases, yellow. Leaves ^2 in. ; leaflets 2-5 pair, J-| in., rarely obovate, entire towards 

 the usually rounded base, rarely pubescent ; stipules small. Flowers pink, 1-3 in. 

 diam., usually solitary. Cali/x globose or. ovoid, often densely bristly, rarely quite 

 smooth ; lobes caudate-acuminate, glandular, often with dilated tips, entire, persis- 



