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ous plant with stout prickles, larger usually more 
acute leaflets pubescent beneath, at least on the 
midrib, globose-ovoid flowerbuds abruptly contracted 
at the apex, larger flowers and "pinnate, sepals. 
(Plantae Wilsonianae, Vol. 2, p. 348, 1915.) 42976. 
R.caudata Baker. "This is a rose discovered by Wilson 
in western China. It is a tall vigorous shrub with 
stout arching stems covered not very thickly with 
stout spines, dark green foliage, and flowers about 
two inches in diameter, in wide, sometimes twenty-five 
flowered clusters. The beauty of the flowers is in- 
creased by the white marking at the base of the pure 
pink petals. The fruit is orange-red, an inch long, 
gradually contracted above into a narrow neck crowned 
by the much enlarged calyx- lobes. This handsome„rose 
is flowering now for the third year in the Arboretum; 
it is perfectly hardy and an excellent addition to the 
roses of its class. (Arnold Arboretum, Bulletin of 
Popular Information, new series, Vol. 1, p. 42, 1915.) 
42977. R. eorymbulosa Rolfe. "A dlst met new species with 
unarmed or sparingly prickly branches and numerous 
flowers in corymb-like Inflorescences. Flowers f to 1 
inch across. Petals broadly obcordate, deep rose 
above, white at the base. Fruits globose, glandular, 
about 1/3 inch long, crowned by the persistent sepals. 
Central China." (Kew Bulletin of Miscellaneous In- 
formation, New Garden Plants of the Year 1915, p. 80.) 
42978. R. davidi Crepin. An orange-fruited , pink-flowered 
rose from western Szechuan, China, reaching a height 
of 5 meters at altitudes of 1,600 to 3,000 m. _It is 
the species nearest in China to R. maerophylla Lindley of 
the western. Himalaya . (Adapted from Sargent, Plantae 
Wilsonianae, Vol. 2, p. 322, 1915.) 42979. R. helenae 
Rehder & Wilson. "From the seeds of a rose collected 
by Wilson in western China a new species of the Mosehata 
group has been raised. It is now flowering in the 
Arboretum for the third year and is to be named if. 
helenae; it is a vigorous and perfectly hardy shrub with 
slender, arching stems furnished sparingly with short 
red spines, and five or six feet high, light green 
cheerful foliage, and terminal and axillary many- 
flowered clusters of pure white, delicately fragrant 
flowers an inch and a half in diameter and borne on 
short erect branchlets. It is a plant which will be 
prized by persons realizing that among the wild roses 
are some of the most beautiful of all flowering plants 
and who find a place for them in their gardens." 
(Arnold Arboretum, Bulletin of Popular Information, 
