In some nurseries we have been shewn it as a new 
double yellow China Rose. The Chinese are said to call 
it Hoi-tong-hong . It is the most elegant of all the roses 
we are acquainted with, and in the Rosarum Monographia 
of the writer of this article, is thus described : 
A little, compact, bright green plant. Branches naked, 
slender, somewhat flexuose; prickles under the stipules, 
straight. Stipules very narrow, spreading at the top. Pe- 
' tioles somewhat prickly, very slender; leaflets 5-9, very 
small, shining, roundish ovate, pointed, quite free from 
pubescence, finely serrated. Flowers solitary, with a 
narrow pointed bractea, very double, pale red. Calyjc 
covered all over with very close set, straight prickles ; 
tube round; sepals very short, dilated, pointed, downy at 
the edge, (like those of R. bracteata in shape). 
