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In his travels in China Wilson met with only one bush of this form of R. 

 Banksiae, and it had evidently been planted. 



Rosa laevigata Michaux, Fl. Bor, Am, I. 295 (1803). — Lindley, Ros, 

 Monog. 125 (1820). — Crepin in Bull Soc. BoL Belg, XIV. 155 (Pnm, 

 Monog. Ros. 359) (1875). — Hemsley in Jour, Linn. Soc. XXIII. 250 

 (1887); in Gard, LXII. 167 (1902). — Focke in BoL Jahrb, XXIX. 

 406 (1900). — Willmott, Gen, Rosa, L 117, t. (1911). — Dunn & 

 Tutchcr in Kew Bull Misc. Inform, add. ser. X. 96 {Fl Kwangtung 

 & Hongk.) (1912). 



Rosa sinica Aiton, Hort. Kew, II. 203 (non Linnaeus) (1789); ed. 2, ITI. 261 



(1814). — Lindley, Ros. Monog. 126, t. 16 (1820); in BoL Reg. XXIII. t. 



1922 (1837). — Hooker in Bot. Mag. LV. t. 2847 (1828), — Bentham, Fl. 



Hongk. 106 (1861). 

 Rosa ternata Poiret, Encycl Meih. VI. 284 (1804). 

 Rosa nivea De Candolle, Cat. Hort. Monsp. 137 (1813). — Seringe in De Can- 



dolle, Prodr. II. 599 (1825). 

 Rosa Cherokeensis Donn, Hort. Cant. ed. 8, 170 (1815). 

 Rosa kystrix Lindley, Ros. Monog. 129, t. 17 (1820). — Hance in Ann. Sci. Nat. 



s6r. 5, V. 211 (1866). 

 Rosa triphylla Roxburgh apud Lindley, Ros. Monog. 138 (1820). — Roxburgh, 



Fl. Ind. ed. 2, II. 515 (1832). 

 Rosa cucumerina Trattinnick, Ros. Monog. II. 181 (1823). 

 Rosa trifoliata Bosc ex Jackson, Ind. Kew. IV. 739 (pro sjmon.) (1895).^ 

 Rosa Amygdalifolia Seringe in De Candolle, Prodr. II. 601 (1825). 

 Rosa sinica, a typica Regel, Tent. Ros. Monog. 43 (1877); in Act. Hort. 



Petrop. V. 327 (1878). 

 Rosa Camellia Hort. ex Andr^ in Rev. Hort. 1889, 246 (pro synon.). 

 Rosa camelliaefolia Hort. ex Kew Hand-list Trees & Shrubs, pt. 1, 171 (pro 



synon.) (1892). 

 Rosa levigata, var. kaiscianensis Pampanini in Nuov. (Horn. Bot. ItaL n. ser. 



XVII. 294(1910). 



Kiangsi: Kiukiang, foothills, alt. 300 m,, August 1, 1907 (No. 

 1692). Western Hupeh: north and south of Ichang, alt. 30-1000 

 m., April and December (No. 3614; scandent bush 2-4 m. tall, flowers 

 white, fruit orange-red) ; Nanto, banks of Yangtsze River, April 16, 

 1900 (Veitch Exped. No. 75); without locality, A. Henry (No. 1143). 

 Fokien: Amoy, A. Henry. Formosa: " Mt. Kushaku/' June 6, 

 1903, U. Faurie (No. 129). 



This Rose is very common in rocky places at low altitudes throughout western 

 Hupeh. The leaves are variable in size and shape. On the growing shoots the 

 leaves are lanceolate to oblong-lanceolate, whereas on the flowering branchlets the 

 leaves are elliptic to ovate or even suborbicular as described by Pampanini under 

 his var. kaiscianensis j and we can find no characters by which to separate this va- 



* In the place cited in Index Kewensis the combination R. trifoliata does not 

 appear, only " Rosier trifolie." 



