IO— ROSA MOSCHATA, var. NEPALENSIS Lindl. 
Rosa mo sch at a, var. nepalensis : a typo recedit habitu graciliori, foliis subtus 
ramulisque magis pubescentibus, foliolis angustioribus, acutioribus, pedicellis 
gracilibus, magis glandulosis. 
R. moschata , var. nepalensis Lindley in Hot. Reg. vol. x. t. 829 (1824). 
R. Brnnonii Lindley, Ros. Monogr. p. 120, No. 67, t. 14 (1820). — Hooker in 
Dot. Mag. vol. lxix. t. 4030 (1843). 
R. Rrownii Trattinnick, Ros. Monogr. vol. ii. p. 96 (1823). 
R. pubescens Roxburgh, FI. Ind. eel. 2, vol. ii. p. 514 (1832). 
R. moschata Hooker f., FI. Brit. Ind. 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, 
pubescent beneath; petioles glandular and pubescent; stipules adnate, gland-ciliated, 
with a linear free point. Flowers 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. Fruit 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 
given 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 Brnnonii , 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 moschata Mill, is such an extremely polymorphous species 
that it is not surprising that eminent botanists should hold different 
opinions as to its identity. Crepin 1 considered that Rosa Brnnonii 
1 Bull . Soc. Bot . Belg. vol. xviii. p. 287 (Primit. Monogr. Ros. fasc. v. p. 533 [1880]) (1879). 
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