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40139 to 40201— Continued. 



the shoots ; the largest are thin, flattened, triangular, one-half inch 

 long, reddish, and translucent." (W. J. Bean, Trees and Shrubs 

 Hardy in the British Isles, vol. 2, p. 420.) 



40193. Rosa sebtata Rolfe. 



"A shrub of elegant habit, up to 5 feet, perhaps more, high; 

 branches glaucous, graceful, and slender, armed with spines up to 

 one-half inch long, in pairs or scattered. Leaves 2 to 4 inches long, 

 composed of 7 to 11 leaflets, which are stalkless, oval to oblong, 

 sharply toothed; one-third to three-quarters inch long, three-six- 

 teenths to three-eighths inch wide; gray-green above, glaucous be- 

 neath ; stipules edged with glandular hairs. Flowers few or solitary, 

 on short twigs, 2 to 2* inches across, flower stalk two-thirds to \\ 

 inches long, glandular-hairy or smooth ; petals broadly obcordate, deli- 

 cate purplish rose; calyx lobes ovate-lanceolate, tapering to a loug, 

 narrow point, minutely downy, sometimes glandular downy, some- 

 times smooth ; anthers deep yellow. Fruit deep red, egg shaped, 

 three-quarters inch long, the sepals persisting at the top. Native of 

 central China ; introduced by Wilson in 1907 and flowered at Kew in 

 June, 1910. It is an extremely elegant and pretty rose, allied to 

 R. webbiana and R. icilmottiae. From the former of these it differs 

 ' in its laxer habit, its few, slender, straight, stipulary thorns, and its 

 more slender, beaked fruit.' (Curtis' s Botanical Magazine.) R. 

 icilmottiae is smaller in its leaves and flowers." (W. J. Bean, Trees 

 and Shrubs Hardy in the British Isles, vol. 2, p. MS.) 

 40194 and 40195. Rubus spp. Rosacea?. 



40194. Rubus gibaldianus Focke. 



"A vigorous deciduous shrub up to 8 or 10 feet high ; its biennial 

 stems much branched toward the summit, pendulous at the ends, 

 covered with a vividly white, waxy covering, not downy, armed rather 

 sparsely with broad-based spines. Leaves pinnate, consisting of 

 usually nine leaflets, and from 5 to 8 inches long ; the main stalk 

 downy and armed with hooked spines. Leaflets 1* to 2h inches long, 

 three-quarters to li inches wide, the terminal one the largest ; ovate 

 or rather diamond shaped ; lateral ones oval-lanceolate ; all un- 

 equally and rather coarsely toothed, slender pointed, smooth above, 

 white beneath with a close felt. Inflorescence a terminal panicle; 

 the flowers small and of little beauty, purple. Fruit black. Native 

 of China ; first found in the Province of Shensi by Giraldi, later in 

 Szechwan by Wilson, who introduced it in 1907. Its claims to recog- 

 nition in the garden are its remarkably white stems, which are as 

 striking in this respect as those of R. biflorus, and its pendulous 

 branches, which give a remarkable fountainlike aspect to the shrub." 

 (W. J. Bean, Trees and Shrubs Hardy in the British Isles, vol. 2, 

 p. J,58.) 



40195. Rubus omeiensis Rolfe. 



"A large, straggling shrub, with round stems, unarmed, but fur- 

 nished with small, stellate hairs. Leaves of maplelike form, five or 

 obscurely seven lobed, with a heart-shaped base; 3 to 7 inches long 

 and as much wide; irregularly toothed, stellately downy beneath, 

 less so above ; stalk 2 to 3 inches long ; stipules one-half to three- 

 quarters inch long, cut up into deep, narrow segments. Panicles many 



