II— ROSA MOSCHATA, var. NASTURANA Christ 
Rosa moschata, vat*, nasturana : a typo receditcaule humiliori ; foliolisminoribus, 
ovatis, firmis, dorso glabris ; rhachi glabra, magis glandulosa ; floribus paucioribus; 
pedicellis bruneis, glabris, magis glandulosis. 
R. moschata , var. nasturana Christ in Boissier, Ft. Orient. Suppl. p. 229(1888). 
R. Pissarti Carrierc in Rev. Hart. 1883, p. 314, fig. 62. 
Stem not so tall as in the type ; prickles uniform, scattered, moderately robust, 
slightly hooked. Leaflets 5-7, smaller, ovate, 1-1J 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. Flowers 
much fewer than in the type; pedicels brown, glabrous, densely glandular. Calyx- 
tube narrowly oblong, naked ; lobes lanceolate, | in. long, slightly compound. Petals , 
styles and fruit as in the type. 
This is a mere geographical variety of Rosa moschata 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 Carriere in a letter which was published, together with Carriere’s 
description, in the Revue Horticole . 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 moschata , with small double purplish flowers, which was 
found by Dr. Haussknecht at Bebehan in southern Persia ; it was 
called by the natives Gul e Reschti , or the Rose of Rescht. 
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