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and adpressed-pubescent on the midrib beneath, ovate oblong- 

 ovate or ovate-lanceolate acute or shortly acuminate in the 

 leteral ones, but the terminal one larger prolonged-acuminate 

 and attaining nearly 4 cm. long, acute or obtuse at the base, 

 simply sharp-serrate ; rachis pubescent, loosely aculeate ; stipules 

 very narrow, adnate, loosely glanduloso-ciliated, the free portion 

 setaceous to subulato-linear. Flowers corymbose with 2 to 5, 

 small, about 1J cm. across, odoriferous, white; pediceles thinly 

 subadpressed-pubc scent and thinly glandular, strict, 5-9 mm. 

 long; bracts caducous, lanceolate, setaceo-acuminate, glanduloso- 

 setaceo-ciliated and pubescent-ciliolated, 4—6 mm. long ; bracte- 

 oles minute, opposite at the ba':e of pedicels, subulate, acuminate, 

 caducous. Calyx-tube small, ovoid-ellipsoid, 2-2J mm. long, 

 thinly adpressed-pubescent and often springly glandular ; sepals 

 reflexed, ellipiical-ovate or oblong-ovate, cuspidately or caudately 

 acuminate, entire, but subpinnatifid with one or a few lacinse 

 in the outer ones, lanate but thinly pubescent and often glandular 

 in the back, deciduous. Petals patent, cuneato-obovate or 

 obovate-elliptical, refuse. Stamens numerous, the outer longer 

 ones as long as the sepals ; anther rounded. Disk slightly 

 prominent. Styles 5, exserted, fasciculate, closed below, filiform, 

 somewhat enlarged above, spreadingly piloso-pubescent, flexuous ; 

 stigma dilatato-capitate ; ovaries oblong, densely hirsute. 

 Fruits (really Calyx-tube) small, globose, smooth, red. 



Nom. Jap. Nioi-bara (Motoyoshi Ono), Yabu-ibara (T. Makino). 



Hab. Japan (M. Ono ! June 1877 ; T. Makino !). 



I have named this species in memor}' of Motoyoshi Ono, 

 grandson of well-known Ranzan Ono. 



Rosa Lucise Franch. et Rochebr. in Bull. Soc. Bot. Belg. X. 

 (1871) p. 324, et XV. (1876) p. 204 ; Bot. Mag. tab. 7421. 



Rosa Wichuraiana Crepin et Desegl. in Bull. Soc. Bot. Belg. 

 XV. (1876) p. 204, et XXVII. (1888) p. 189. 



var. HTujisanensis Makino, var. nov. 



Stems erect, robust ; branches erect or spreading, stout, flexu- 

 ous, sparingly aculeate with straight long prickles. Leaves 



