Subgenus XII. — Hulthemia Dumort. diss. 1824; Boiss. 
H. Orient. II, p. 668 ; Lowea Lindl. Bot. Reg. tab. 1261 ; 
Rhodopsis Bge in Ledeb. fl. Alt. II, p. 224; ejus le. 
Ross. tab. 370 ; Rosa berberifolia Pall. in Nov. Act. 
Petrop. X,p. 397, tab. 10, fig. 5. 
Styli liberi, plerumque lanati; sepala dorso aculeolata, 
hirta, acide oblongo-lanceolata, integerrima, post anthesim 
patentia, persistentia ; bores solitarii, terminales, in genere 
minuti, petalis quinque, basi nectario maculaefonni obsitis, 
aureis inferne atropurpureis ; fructus avellana minor, globo- 
sus vel ovatus toto densissime aculeolato-hirsutus (variât 
etiam glaber, sed non vidi) ; calycis tubus fauce constrictus, 
limbo quinquepartito ; carpella glaberrima ; folia simplicia, 
ovata, obovato-cuneata vel lineari-oblonga, glabra vel bre- 
viter tomentella, obtusa, dentata, parallèle nervosa; aculei 
omnes stipulares, fere oppositi, patenti-subincurvi, grisei 
vel albi; stipulae nullae. — Fruticulus vix pedalis, Per- 
siam et Desertum Songaro-Khirghisicum incolens, ramo- 
sissimus, glaber vel cinereo-tomentellus, ejus rami angulosi, 
brèves, torluosi. 
Characteres omnes generis — Persia bor. et occid. (Kotschy exs. 
n. 698, etc...4266. H. berberifolia (Pall.) 
