scattered recurved prickles, and by haying its sepals (leaf- 
Jets of the calyx) considerably longer than the petals. The 
last character we imagine to have induced M. Thory to 
think of referring it to cinnamomea, from which it certainly 
is divided as widely by nature as any individual of the 
genus. 
Andrews has given a figure of it in a most luxuriant 
state under the name of /urida, by which it is known in the 
nurseries. 
- - Bush 4-5 feet high, looking like the common Dog Rose, 
but with rather slenderer branches. Branches naked round 
purple waxen, the colour on the part next the sun much 
‘deeper: prickles scattered solitary equal hooked, of the 
full-grown branches small, sometimes nearly straight, 
recurved. at the tip. Leaves spreading glaucous opaque 
tinged with red: stipules smoothish naked linear, sometimes 
dilated, ovate and recuryed at the top, with midrib and the 
base entirely crimson: petioles naked green underneath, 
«purplish above ‘thinly beset with very small crooked 
‘prickles, flexuose: leaflets oblong, primordial ones generally 
‘obovate or truncate, simply serrate, naked on beth sides, 
“paler on the under. Flowers small solitary ov gathered into 
-eymes of about three, according to the situation they grow 
“in, either of a deep or a faint red, flattish: bractes ovately 
‘Janceolate purple or (in the manyflowered ones) of a lively 
ogreen, naked, near to or at a distance from the flowers. Pe- 
“duncle and tube of the calyx ovate, naked; sepals (leaflets of 
‘the calyx) simple glandular and bristled, entire, longer than 
-:the petals. Petals nearly entire flat, paler at the base. 
“Disk depressed nearly closing up the aperture of the faux. 
.. Germens very’ shaggy, 15-20-20. Styles short distinct 
shaggy protruded. Stigmas depressed. Fruit ovate scarlet, 
with deciduous leaflets. Lindley MSS. 
