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R. (Systyla) Leschenaultiana (Red. & Thor.:) surculi very long, glabrous, glaucous, prickly; prickles about equal, hooked : petioles prickly, and peduncles and calyx-tube covered with gland-bearing bristles : leaflets 5-7, persistent, firmish, green and glabrous on both sides without glands, ovate-lanceolate, acutely simply or sometimes doubly serrated ; midrib beneath glandular: stipules adnate : flowers nearly solitary : calyx-segments densely pubescent on both sides, nearly quite simple, at length reföexed : petals broadly obcordate : styles combined upwards into a thickish tomentose exserted column : fruit ovate.- Wight! cat. n. 1011.- R. sempervirens, gamma Ser. in DC. prod. 2. p. 598.- R. Wallichii, Sab. in Wall. L. n. 687.
Several other species are before us, as R. Indica (Wall. L. n. 685), R. moschata, and R. centifolia, but they are cultivated, and not natives of the Peninsula.