Entry for ROSA abyssinica R. Br. [family ROSACEAE]
Entry From
Flora of Tropical Africa, Vol 2, page 364, (1871) Author: (By Mr. J. G. Baker.)
Notes
Probably not specifically distinct from some extra-African form, but it would be unsafe to identify it with our small material. Dr. Lindley (l c.) puts it near R. sempervirens; Mr. Baker suggests that it may be a form of R. systyla. We have besides from Ankober, collected by Dr. Roth, a solitary specimen, perhaps a variety of the foregoing, which approaches R. moschata in its many flowered inflorescence. Richard (Fl. Abyss. i. 262) describes, under the name R. sancta, a Rose cultivated around churches in the province of Tigre, which he says is nearly identical in habit with R. centifolia, L., differing in its glabrous glaucous eglandular branches, armed with but few recurved aculei, and in its much smaller flowers, with glaucous glabrous peduncles. I have not seen a specimen.
