Rosace®. 
135 
acute or acuminate. Stas about as high as the styles. 
Comp. R. saltuum. 21. 
— Prickles almost similar, fairly vigorous, straight. Leaflets 
green on both sides, suddenly narrowed to a long point. 
Stas distinctly lower than the styles. Panicle leafless, 
with extremely short stip. glands! Wilchingen; rare. 7 
curvistylis Grml, 661. 
34. Shoots cylindric or obtuse-angular, very hairy. Leaflets 
ternate, obovate > cuneiform, with a short superposed 
point, having a grayish shining effect underneath on 
account of the numerous hairs. Branches of the panicle 
very spreading, villous. R. Menkei W. N. ?—S. 7 
fraternus Grml. 662.*) 
— Shoots (brownish red) angular, glabr. or with scattered 
hairs. Leaflets ternate or quinate, broad-oval or round- 
cordate, with a short, almost superposed, point, the 
young ones gray-tomentose underneath. Panicle inter¬ 
rupted, the lower branches almost erect. Cal. tomen- 
tose, with red glands. Prickles sometimes fairly similar, 
sometimes very unequal and then often irregularly pla¬ 
ced, and, the small ones also, much thickened at the 
base, those of the peduncles abundant, hooked. Dru¬ 
pels, even when mature, crowned with a tuft of hairs. 
R.trichocarpusTimeroy ? — Wall.,Yaud, Freiburg, Zurich. 7 
pilocarpus Grml. 663. 
35 (29). Panicle elongated, gen. many-fld, with short prickles, 
often almost without any; lower branches often se¬ 
parated, axillary, and forming themselves into a panicle. 
Cal. white-tomentose. Pets rather narrow, reddish. Ovaries 
with long hair. Shoots always hairy, tinted with a parti¬ 
cularly dull violet-brown. Leaflets either green or velvety- 
pubescent or gray-tomentose underneath. Resembling 
R. saltuum. R. hispidus Merc.?—Y. S. 7 
insericatus P. J. Mull, 664.**) 
— The above characters not present . . . 30 
36. Prickles more or less unequal. Stip. glands more or 
less numerous. (Shoots always hairy) . . . 37 
— Prickles fairly similar. Stip. glands rare . . 40 
37. Leaflets gray- or white-tomentose underneath, dark green 
and fairly glabr. above; terminal leaflet long-acuminate. 
(Ovaries pubescent; pets rose-coloured) . . 3S 
— Leaflets green underneath ..... 30 
38. Leaflets gray-tomentose underneath. The large prickles 
curved, much thickened at the base. Panicle short, often 
*) Allied to R. teretiusculus. 
**) An allied form is R. erythrostemon A. Favrat. 
