loo— ROSA MALYI Kern. 
Rosa Malyi: caule brevi, erecto, ramoso ; aculeis ad ramos floriferos nullis ; 
foliolis 7, parvis, late oblongis, obtusis, duplicato-serratis, utrinque glabris ; rhachi 
glabra, parce aciculata ; stipiilis latis, adnatis, glanduloso-ciliatis, apice libero, parvo 
ovato ; floribus solitariis ; pedunculis dense aciculatis, fructiferis cernuis; calycis 
tubo turbinato, nudo ; lobis ovatis, simplicibus, longe acuminatis, dorso glabris ; 
petalis parvis, saturate rubris ; stylis liberis, villosis ; fructu lagenaeformi, rubro, 
piilposo, sepalis persistentibus coronato. 
R. Malyi Kerner in Oester. Bot. Zeitschr. xix. 325 (1869). — Borbas in M. T. 
Abaci. Math. S. Termdszettud. Kozlemenyek xvi. Kotet. pp. 526, 535 [Ros. Hung. 
pp. 526, 535) (1880). — H. Braun in Act. Soc. Zool. Bot. Vind. vol. xxxv. p. 115 
(1885). — Nyman, Conspectus FI. Enrop. Suppl. ii. p. 116, No. 37 (1890). 
R. pendidina, var. Malyi Keller in x\scherson & Graebner, Syn. Mittelenr. FI. 
vol. vi. p. 305 (1902). 
Ste 7 n erect, much branched, 3-4 feet high, without prickles on the flowering 
branches. Leaflets 7, small, oblong, obtuse, in. long, doubly toothed, green, 
glabrous on both surfaces ; petioles glabrous, slightly aciculate ; stipules broad, 
adnate, gland-ciliated, with small, ovate, free tips. Flowers solitary ; peduncles 
densely beset with gland-tipped aciculi, nodding in fruit. Calyx-tube naked, 
turbinate ; lobes ovate, tapering into a long point, in. long, naked on the back. 
Corolla deep bright red, 1-13 in. diam. Styles free, villous. Frttit flask-shaped, 
bright red, pulpy, an inch long, naked, crowned with the persistent sepals. 
Rosa Malyi was discovered on Monte Santo in Dalmatia by 
Franz Maly and was described by Kerner in 1869. Maly was 
Garteninspektor of the Hof burg at Vienna. He accompanied the 
Archduke Maximilian to Brazil in 1859 1 name is also known 
in connection with the alpine flora of Austria-Hungary, of which he 
made a careful study. He collected several new species of European 
Roses, among which the most interesting is Rosa Alalyi. It is inter- 
mediate between Rosa pendulina L. and Rosa spinosissima L., having 
the flowers of the former and the small leaves of the latter, and is 
probably a hybrid between these two species. Dr. Keller wrote an 
elaborate paper upon it in Engler’s Jahrbuch.^ 
Rosa Malyi is certainly one of the most beautiful of the wild 
Roses yet introduced into our gardens. It is amongst the first in 
the year to open its buds, and it is exceedingly floriferous. In colour 
the flowers are of a bright rich shade of pink; the habit of the plant 
is compact, and in all ways it is a satisfactory garden shrub. 
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