ROSA HUGONIS 
Rosa platyacantha specific rank, referring Rosa Ecae to it, and Rosa 
xanthma also, but not without some hesitation. 
All these Roses present certain differences, and probably the last 
word about them has not yet been said. No herbarium specimen of 
Rosa Hugonis was sent with the seed ; and Mr. Hemsley’s description 
and the drawing in the Botanical Magazine were made from the living 
plant at Kew. The only dried specimen in the Kew herbarium which 
at all resembles Rosa Hugonis is one labelled “ R. pimpinellifolia flore 
luteo,” collected in the Ili district in Chinese Turkestan. 
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