9— ROSA MOSCHATA Miller 
THE MUSK ROSE 
/\osa I nose hat a: caule elongate, viridi, sarmentoso; aculeis sparsis, confonnibus, 
parvis, falcatis ; foliolis 5-7, oblongis, aciitis, simpliciter serratis, facie glabris, dorso 
pubescentibus ; rhachi pubescente, vix giandulosa ; stipiilis adnatis, apice libero, 
lanceolato ; floribus pluribiis, corymbosis ; pedunculis pubescentibus, parce setosis ; 
calycis tubo oblongo; lobis ovato-lanceolatis, exterioribus parce pinnatifidis; petalis 
albis; stylis pilosis, coalitis, protrusis; fructu globose, parvo, rubro; sepalis reflexis, 
caducis. 
R. nioschata Miller, Card. Diet. ed. 8, vol. ii. No. 13 (1768). — Jacquin, I laid. 
Schoen. vol. iii. t. 280 (1798) ; Fnjgni. p. 31, t. 34, fig. 3 (1809). — Lawrance, Roses, 
t. 64 (1799). — Roessig, Die Rosen, No. 27 (1802-1820). — Thory in Redoutc, Roses, 
vol. i. p. 33, t. (1817). — Lindley, Ros. Monogr. p. 121, No. 68 (1820); Bot. Reg. 
vol. X. t. 829, 861 (1824). — Hayne, Arsn. vol. xi. t. 33 (1830). — Christ in Boissier, 
FI. Orient. Suppl. p. 229 (1888). — Brandis, Indian Trees, p. 288 (1906). 
R. opsosteninia Ehrhart, Beitr. znr Naturk. vol. ii. p. 72 (1788). 
R. arborea Persoon, Syn. pt. 2, p. 50 (1807). 
Stem tall, green, arching or sarmentose; prickles small, scattered, stout, hooked, 
uniform. Leaflets 5-7, oblong, acute, moderately firm, green, simply toothed, glabrous 
on the uppersurface, pubescent beneath; petioles pubescent, slightlyglandular; stipules 
adnate, not laciniated, with small lanceolate free tips. Flowers many, in a corymb; 
peduncles long, pubescent, slightly setose ; bracts lanceolate. Calyx-tube oblong ; 
lobes ovate-lanceolate, in. long, not glandular on the back, the outer slightly 
compound. Petals pure white, middle-sized. Styles pilose, united in a column which 
is distinctly protruded beyond the conical disc. Fruit small, globose, red, naked ; 
sepals reflexing, deciduous. 
Rosa nioschata ranges in a wiki state from Afghanistan to Kashmir, 
Simla, Garhwal, Kumaon and Nepal, at altitudes of from 3,000 to 
8,500 feet. It is quite hardy in southern England. According to 
Fraas,^ it is one of the Roses known to Theophrastus. Turner 
mentions it in 1551 ; three forms are figured by Lobel in 1581 in his 
Plantanuii sea Stir piuni leones, vo\. ii. — -Jiore siniplici, p. 207, nioschata 
and nioschata major, p. 208. Gerard had three forms of it in his garden 
in Holborn in i 596. Parkinson^ figures it under the name of “ Rosa 
hispanica moschata simplex,” and there is a specimen of it amongst 
Plukenet’s plants in the British Museum. It is curious that Linnaeus 
overlooked such a well-known plant, although he had two good speci- 
mens in his herbarium. The principal varieties are the plants known 
' Synopsis Florae Classicae, p. 74 (1870). - Paradisus, p. 419 (1629). 
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