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Spec. Cuar. Stem herbaceous, decumbent, dichotomous, slight- 
ly villous: leaves pinnated ; leaflets oblong, slightly hairy, more or 
less incise-toothed: stipules lanceolate, entire: pedicels axillary, 
solitary :. calycine-segments and bracteoles lanceolate: petals not 
so long as the calyx: carpels wrinkled: flowers yellow. 
' Neilgherries. 
(3) P. Lescnenauttiana. (Ser.) 
Ident.) W. & A. prod. L.-p. 301.—Dec, prod. TE. p: 584. 
Engrav. Wight's Icon. t. 990.—Spicil. fF. t. 63. 
Spec. Cuar. All parts covered with long silky hairs: stems 
decumbent at the base ; radical and lower leaves pinnated, on longs 
ish petioles ; leaflets 5, cuneate-obovate, obtuse, incise-toothed, the 
lower pair smaller than the others: upper stem-leaves palmately 
8-5-foliolate : leaflets about equal and similar to. the larger leaflets 
of the radical leaves: stipules large, ovate-lanceolate, lower ones 
often entire, upper toothed or deeply cut: calyeine-segments and 
bracteoles about equal, oblong-lanceolate : ‘petals slightly obcordate, 
about equal to the calyx: receptacle villous: carpels slightly 
wrinkled : flowers in terminal forked panicles or corymbose, yellow, 
Neilgherries. 
GENUS IV. ROSA, 
Keosandria Polygynin. Sex: Syst: 
Deriv. From the Celtic word Rhas, red, in allusion to the colour 
of the flowers of most of the species, é 
Gewn..Cuar. . Erect scrambling or climbing shrubs, more or less 
prickly : leaves pinnate, alternate, with leafy stipules adhering to 
the petiole: calyx 5-cleft; segments often divided ; tube contracted 
at the mouth: petals 5: stamens indefinite; anthers 2-celled: car 
pels several, 1-seeded, hairy, inclosed within the tube of the calyx, 
which becomes succulent when ripe. 
(1) R. Lescnenauttiana. (Red. & Thor.) 
Fdent. W.& A. prod. I. p, 301. 
Syn. R.-sempervirens, Dee. prod. II. p. 598. 
Engrav. Wight’s Icon. t. 38. 
Spec. Car. Suckers very long, glabrous, glaucous, prickly 3 
prickles hooked : eos prickly : peduneles and ealyx-tube cover- 
ed with glandular bristles ; leaflets 5~7, green and glabrous on both 
sides, ovate-lanceolate, simply or sometimes doubly serrated: mid- 
rib glandular beneath: calyx-segments densely pubescent on both 
sides, at length reflexed: petals broadly obcordate: styles combin- 
ed upwards into a thickish tomentose exserted column; fruit ovate ¢, 
flowers nearly solitary. 
_ Neilgherries, 
