i8— ROSA SOULIEANA Crdp. 
/\^osa Soitlieana: caule longissimo, arcuato, glauco-viridi ; aculeis conformibus, 
brevibus, strictis, vel levnter haniatis, acutissimis, basi dilatatis; foliis pallide viridi- 
biis, giabris ; foliolis 5-9 (saepius 7), late ellipticis vel obovatis, apice nunc rotundatis, 
nunc obtusis et mucronatis, basi excepta serratis ; rhachi parce pubescente; stipulis 
adnatis, apice liberis, triangularibus, acutis, marginibus plus niinusve glandulosis ; 
tloribus terminalibus, solitariis vel corymbosis ; pedunculis bracteatis ; bracteis 
viridibus, ovatis, acuminatis, dentatis vel integris, supra pubescentibus, margine 
saepe glandulis stipitatis vestitis; calycis tubo globoso, nudo, vel glandulis stipitatis 
instructo; lobis ovatis, acutis, reflexis, extra pubescentibus, intra lanatis, saepe cum 
1- 3 appendicLilis linearibus e marginibus ortis ; petalis albidis, late obovatis, trun- 
catis ; carpellis pilis setiformibus, nitidis, dense vestitis; stylis pubescentibus, con- 
junctis, breviter exsertis ; fructu globoso, parvo, aurantiaco, nudo; sepalis caducis. 
R. Soiilieana Crepin in Bull. Soc. Bot. Belg. vol. xxxv. pt. 2, p. 21 (1896). — 
M. L. Yilmorin Sz. Bois, Cat. Priui. Friit. Vil. p. 85, fig. (1904). — C. K. Schneider, 
III. Handbitch LaitbJiolzk. \'ol. i. p. 544 (1906). — Hemsley in Bot. Mag. vol. cxxxiii. 
t. 8158 (1907). 
A large straggling bush. Stems glaucous green, arching; prickles uniform, 
short, straight or slightly hooked, very sharp, dilated at base. Leaves with petioles 
2- 3 in. long, pale green, glabrous. Leaflets 5-9 (usually 7), broadly elliptic or 
obovate, in. long, rounded, or obtuse and mucronate, serrate to near the base. 
Petioles sparsely hairy ; stipules adnate, more or less glandular along the margin, 
free ends triangular, acute. Flowers \\-2. in. across, terminal and solitary, or in 
cymose corymbs. Peduncles i in. long, bracteate ; bracts green, ovate, acuminate, 
toothed or entire, pube.scent above, margins often clothed with stipitate glands. 
Calyx-tube naked or glandular ; lobes ovate, acute, refle.xed, pubescent out- 
side, woolly inside, usually with 1-3 bract-like outgrowths from margins. Petals 
creamy-white, broadly obovate, truncate ; carpels densely clothed with shining, 
bristle-like hairs. Styles hairy, coherent, exserted. /'>//// globular, small, orange, 
naked ; sepals deciduous. 
Rosa So2ilicana was discovered in Sze-chuan in the south-west of 
China by the Pere Soulie, and was named in compliment to him by 
Crepin, who in 1896 published his description, classing this Rose 
amongst the Sysfylae, that section of the genus so largely composed of 
Chinese and Japanese species. It is fairly common m the valley of 
the Yaking river, but does not occur east of this region. Its only 
affinity is with Rosa inoschata Mill., and, like that Rose, it is extremely 
llonferoLis. It diflers from it somewhat in its general aspect, in the 
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