they must be associated if this mode of division be ob- 
served. 
A remarkable variety is cultivated in some of the nur- 
series under the name of R. Roxburghii; it is weaker in its 
manner of growth, has very narrow leaves and little disposi- 
tion to flower. 
Shrub 12-15 feet high: branches runnerlike, somewhat 
climbing, furless, rubescently green, with two crooked 
equal stipular prickles. Leaves very opaque, cinereous, 
stipules linearly pinnatifid (or feathercleft) at the edge, cot- 
tony underneath: petioles highly villous: leaflets 5-7 some- 
what imbricate, lanceolate, wrinkled, simply serrate, cot- 
tony on both sides. Flowers of a delicate blush red, closely 
corymbose; bractes linear, toothed, cottony on the outside; 
the peduncles, the depressed tube of the calyx, the simple 
ovate calycine leaflets all of them covered with a thick 
cottony fur: petals always multiplied (or in many rows) in 
the plants we see in our gardens. Styles dilated hairy 
grown together into an elongated column. Fruit unknown. 
Lindley MSS. 
