lo— ROSA MOSCHATA, var. NEPALENSIS Lindi. 
niosc/iafa, var. ucpaleiists : a typo reccdit habitu graciliori, foliis subtus 
ramulisquc magis pubescentibus, foliolis angustioribus, acutioribus, pcclicellis 
gracilibus, magis glandiilosis. 
R. nioschafa, \’ar. iiepaleiisis Lindley in Bot. Reg. vol. x. t. 829 (1824). 
R. Bruiionii Lindley, Ros. Monoge. p. 120, No. 67, t. 14 (1820). — Hooker in 
Bot. Mcig. vol. Ixix. t. 4030 (1843). 
R. Z’/Wtiv/zV Trattinnick, Ros. Mouogr. vol. ii. p. g6 (1823). 
R. pubcscens Roxburgh, FI. lud. ed. 2, vol. ii. p. 514 (1832). 
R. nwscJiafa Hooker f., FI. Brit. Bid. vol. ii. p. 367 (1879). 
Stem tall, arching or sarmentose ; prickles small, scattered, uniform, hooked. 
Leaflets 5-7, oblong or oblong-lanceolate, \\-2 in. long, simply sharply serrated, 
pube.scent beneath; petioles glandular and pubescent; adnate, gland-ciliated, 
with a linear free point. Floivers up to 50-60 in a corymbose panicle; pedicels 
slender, glandular and pubescent. Petals white, middle-sized. Styles connate in 
a slender column, distinctly protruded from the disc, l^ruit small, globose, naked; 
sepals deciduous. 
Introduced in 1822 from Nepal by Wallich, who had sent 
specimens to the De Candolle herbarium, Geneva, in 1819-1821, this 
Rose was also collected in Nepal by Buchanan- Hamilton, who sent 
his specimens to Lambert. Lindley mentions a plant which was 
gi\’cn to him from Prince Leopold’s garden, where it had been raised 
from seed received direct from Nepal. In the Kew Herbarium there 
are specimens collected in various localities in the province of Kwang- 
tung in the south of China. It is not found in the western Himalaya, 
but appears to be confined to the provinces of Garhwal, Kumaon and 
Nepal. In the forests of those regions it wanders from tree to tree 
and is described as being strikingly beautiful. Lindley described this 
Rose in his Monograph, dedicating it to Robert Brown under the 
name of Rosa Dninonii, and also in the Botanical Register as Rosa 
moschata, var. nepalensis. It is under the latter name that the plant 
should now be known. 
Rosa nioschata Mill, is such an extremely polymorphous species 
that it is not surprising that eminent botanists should hold different 
opinions as to its identity. Cre^pin’ considered that Rosa Brunonii 
* Bull. S)OC, Bot. Belg. vol. xviii. p. 287 {Prhnlt. Monogr. Ros. fasc. v. p. 533 [18S0]) (1879). 
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