from R. imoluta; and the same characters, and the much
less dense pubescence, from all the varieties of R. Sabini.
Leaflets 9 or 7, except in the upper leaves towards the
flowers, ovate, not acuminate, the terminal tooth being
scarcely longer than the rest; the base, especially of the
terminal leaflet, usually somewhat cordate; their mid-ribs
and leaf-stalk sprinkled with glands, and the latter furnished
with a few mostly falcate prickles. Stipules dilated
towards the points, which are divaricated and acute; their
edges fringed with minute red glands; their disk eglandu-
lose. Flower-stalk setose. Calyx-tube almost globular;
segments setose and glandulose, simple, or merely bearing
a capillary pinna or two; their points a little dilated.
Petals exceeding the calyx, of a beautiful dark pink.—
Styles included, hairy: mass of stigmas round and protuberant.
Fruit orange-scarlet. The twigs, prickles, flower-
stalk and calyx, are in general richly tinged with purple.
The figure was drawn from wild specimens received
from Mr. Wilson, assisted, for the flower and fruit, by
others, from bushes which had been removed to his garden.
—W. B.