Japan Flora: Erect bushy shrub with stout densely short- pubescent branches with needlelike slender spines and stout flattened short-pubescent prickles; stipules broad, membranous, the free portion broadly ovate or deltoid; leaflets 7-9, nearly equal, oblong, elliptic or obovate, 3-5 cm. long, 2-3 cm. wide, obtuse to rounded, glabrous and minutely bullate or rugulose above, densely cinereous hairy and with sessile pale glandular dots; flowers 1-3, terminal, 6-10 cm. across, deep rose, the pedicels stout, erect, 1-3 cm. long, with slender prickles; calyx with a depressed-globose tube, the lobes 3-4 cm. long, ap- presscd-pubescent and with slender prickles, sometimes with short stipitate glands; fruit subglobose, yellowish red, 2-2.5 cm. across. June-Aug. Sandy shores.

Hokkaido, Honshu on Pacific side south to n. Kanto and on Japan Sea side south to San’in Distr.).  Temperate and northern parts of e. Asia to the Kuriles, Kamchatka, and Sakhalin.