TA. TELS, 
ROSA MULTIFLORA. 
Native of Japan and China. 
Nat. Ord. Rosacex.—Tribe Roses. 
Genus Rosa, Linn. ; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. vol. i. p. 625.) 
Rosa (Systilew) multiflora; frutex alte scandens, surculis gracillimis 
elongatis, aculeis tenuibus sparsis lente curvis, ramulis foliis subtus 
prs calycibusque tomentosis v. pubescentibus sparsim glandulosis, 
oliolis 5-7 ovatis ovato- v. elliptico-lanceolatis obtusis acutis v. acu- 
minatis basi rotundatis v. cuneatis, stipulis pectinatis, floribus corymboso- 
paniculatis parvis albis v. roseis, sepalis fructu deciduis brevibus integris 
ovatis lanceolatisve setaceo-acuminatis, ovariis villosis, stylis gracilibus 
longe exsertis in columnam coherentibus, fructibus longe pedicellatis 
parvis ellipsoideis vertice annulato, acheniis paucis obtuse angulatis laxe 
pilosis. 
R. multiflora, Thunb. Fl. Jap. p. 214; Willd. GP. Pl. vol. ii. p. 1077; DC. 
Prodr, vol. ii. p. 598; Miquel Prolus, Fl. Jap. p.277; Franch. & Savat. 
Enum. Pl. Jap. vol. i. p. 184; Crepin in Bull. Soc. Bot, Belg. vol. xiii. 
p- 250, and vol. xviii. p. 278, 279; Deutsche Gartenzeit. 1886, p. 101 ; 
Franchet in Mem. Soc. Sc. Nat. Cherb. xxiv. 216 ; Helmsl. in Journ. Linn. 
Soc. vol. xxiii. p. 253. 
Var. flore pleno, Bot. Mag. t. 1059; Bot. Reg. t. 425, and t. 1372 (var. platy- 
phylla) ; Lindl. Ros. Monogr. t.119; Savi Fl. Ital. vol. i. t. 20; Andrews 
Rosar. t. 83; Herbier de l Amateur, vol. i. t. 67; Nouveau Duhamel, 
vol. vii. p. 28, t. 17, and Redoute Ros. t. 91,92; Ait. Hort. Kew Ed. 2, 
vol. iii. p. 263; Brandis For. Flor. p. 201; Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind, vol. ii. 
p- 364. 
R. polyantha, Sieb. § Zuccarini, Fam. Nat. Plant. Jap. pars i. p. 20; Car- 
be in Rev. ee 1876, p. 253, figs. 49-53 ; Gard. Chron. 1876, vol. ii. 
p- 137, fig. 32; Girdlestone l.c. 1887, vol. ii. p. 659, fig. 127. ; 
R. intermedia, Carriere in Rev. Hortic. 1868, p. 269, 270, fig. 29, 30; Crepin 
in Bull. Soc. Bot. Belg. vol. viii. (1869) p. 344. 
R. diffusa, Roxb. Fl. Ind. vol. iii. p. 515. 
R. Thoryi, Tratt. Ros. p. 85 (er DC. Prodr.) (var. platy phylla). 
R. Wichure, K. Koch Wochenschr. vol. xii. (1869) p. 202. 
R. florida, Poiret Encycl. Suppl. Rosa, No. 62. 
R. Grevillei & K. Roxburghiana, Steet Hort. Brit. Ed. i. 138. 
R. simplex, Hort. 
The interest which attaches to this small-flowered rose 
arises from the fact, that though known 1n cultivation 
throughout Europe, and in India, China, and many other 
countries in its double-flowered state, since the beginning 
June 1st, 1890. 
