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furnished with a few scattered, slightly falcate, somewhat un- 

 equal, slender prickles. Old shoots flexuose, dark purplish 

 brown, covered all over with a light glaucous bloom, with a 

 very few scattered, straight, slender prickles ; sometimes un- 

 armed. Leaves large, grey, opaque; stipules large, broad, 

 apiculate and slightly serrate at the end, downy, ciliated with 

 fine glands, which exist also at the back near the edges ; peti- 

 oles downy, unarmed, with a few glands on the upper surface ; 

 leaflets oval, complicate, coarsely and doubly serrated, downy 

 on both sides, and having a very few minute glands beneath ; 

 there is no smell of turpentine ; terminal leaflet much larger 

 than the lower leafllets. Flowers in 5-flowered cymes. 

 Bracteae downy, glandular at the edge and back, the lower- 

 most usually with a long terminal leaflet as long as the tube 

 of the calyx. Peduncle setose. Tube of the calyx ovate, 

 glaucous, naked, or rarely with a few setae ; sepals setose and 

 glandular at the back, long, narrow, all nearly equal, with a 

 long linear-lanceolate leafy serrated end. Flowers dark red, 

 middle sized, appearing in June. Petals entire, emarginate, 

 apiculate, much shorter than the sepals. Stigmas in a de- 

 pressed head, hairy. Fruit red, unarmed. 



XXXV. Rosa Banksiae ; Garden variety, flava. 

 A very handsome variety of Rosa Banksiae, brought from 

 China for the Society in 1824 in the Lowther Castle East 

 Indiaman, by Mr. John Damper Parks. Besides colour, it 

 differs from the double white variety in having shorter, flatter, 

 and more lucid leaves, and in having less disposition to pro- 

 duce side branchlets. The flowers are smaller and not fra- 

 grant, and the petals are arranged with greater regularity one 



