II— ROSA MOSCIIATA, var. NASTURANA Christ 
Rosau}Oschafa,\2CC.7iasfu}'iHia: a typo rcceditcaule humiliori ; foliolisminoribus, 
ovatis, firmis, dorso glabris ; rhachi glabra, magis glandulosa ; floribus paiicioribiis ; 
pedicellis bruncis, glabris, magis giandulosis. 
R. jnosc/iafa, var. in Boissier, /'7. Orienf. Su})pl. p. 229(1888). 
R. Pissa/'R Carri^rc in Rev. Hort. i88d, p. 314, fig. 62. 
Stem not so tall as in the type ; prickles uniform, scattered, moderately robust, 
slightly hooked. Leaflets 5-7, smaller, ovate, 1-14 in. long, firm in texture, green, 
very acute, glabrous on the back ; petioles glabrous, aciculate, very glandular ; 
stipules adnate with a lanceolate free tip, copiously margined with glands. Plowers 
much fewer than in the type; pedicels brown, glabrous, densely glandular. Calyx- 
tube narrow'ly oblong, naked ; lobes lanceolate, h in. long, slightly compound. Petals, 
styles and fruit as in the type. 
This is a mere geographical variety of Rosa luoscJiata Miller. It 
inhabits the mountains of Persia and was received at the Museum in 
Paris, in 1880, under the name of Rosa Pissarti. Pissart, who was 
gardener to the Shah of Persia at Teheran, brought the Rose to the 
notice of Carnere in a letter which was published, together with Carriere’s 
description, in the Revue If orticole. In it he relates how the Rose 
had originally reached Teheran from Guiland on the shores of the 
Caspian and had at once become popular in Persian gardens. Nastaran 
is its Persian name. Dr. Stapf states that it ascends the mountains 
of southern Persia to 8,000 feet. Dr. Christ says that there is another 
form of Rosa vioschafa, with small double purplish flowers, v^hich was 
found by Dr. Plaussknecht at Bebehan in southern Persia ; it was 
called by the natives Gal e Resehti, or the Rose of Rescht. 
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