Tab. 7171. 

 ROSA Banksue. 



Native of China. 



"Nat. Ord. Rosacea. — Tribe Rose,*:. 

 Genus Rosa, Linn.; {Benth. et Hook.f. Gen. PI. vol. i. p. 625.) 



Rosa Bank sice ; alte scandens, glaberrima, eglandulosa, Itevis, caulc acnleato 

 ranmlis inermibns, foliis 3-5-foliolatis, foliolis clliptico- v. ovato-lanceo- 

 latis acutis v. subacutis serrulatis v. crenato-serrulatis Iambus, stipulis 

 angnste linearibus setaceisve demum deciduis, umbellis mnltifloris, 

 floribus inter minoribns aureis, pedicellia gracilibus, calycia tnbo brevi 

 subgloboso, lobis breviusculis lanceolato-subulatis integerrimis v. obscure 

 snbserrulatia deciduis intus puberulis, petalis obcordatis concavis, 

 filamentia gracilibus, autberis aureis, carpellis pilosis, stylis exsertis stig- 

 matibusque capitatia liberis, fructibua parvis globosia, carne parca, 

 carpellis maturis ad 8 triquetris glabris. 



R. Banksise, B. Br. in Ait. JTort. Kew. Ed. ii. vol. iii. p. 258; Lindl. Monogr. 

 Bos. t. 131 ; Bot. Mar/, t. 1954 (var. alba) ; Bed. et Thor. Ros. vol. ii. 

 p. 43, cum Ic. ; Bot. 'Beg. t. 1105, et t. 397 (var. alba) ; BO. Prodr. 

 vol. ii. p. 001; Jlems-l. in Joum. Linn. Son. xxiii. p. 248. — Flores in 

 omnibus pleni. 



R. Banksiana, Abel, Narr.Journ. Chin. p. 160. 



R. biennis, Poxh. Sort. Beng. p. 38; Fl. Ind. vol. ii. p. 576. 



Under the description of Rosa rnultiflora (Plate 7119), I 

 mentioned that I hoped soon to figure in this work another 

 rose that had long been known in cultivation, but only in 

 late years in its single state, R. Banksice. Thanks to the 

 Rev. Canon Ellacombe I am now able to do this ; and 

 though I have nothing absolutely novel to add to the 

 history of this beautiful plant, T may accompany the 

 figure with a brief risumi of what has been recorded. 



Rosa Banksim was first described in 1871 by It. Brown, 

 in Aiton's Hortus Kewensis, where it is stated to have 

 been introduced into England (presumably to Kew) from 

 China in 1807 by Mr. William Kerr. It is not stated 

 whether the plant was white- or yellow-fld., nor whether 

 single or double fid. That it was however the white and 

 double fid. is certain, for the next published account of it 

 is in the volume for 1818 of the Botanical Magazine, 

 where it is represented (Plate 1954) in this condition, the 

 specimen having been obtained from Sir Joseph Banks' 

 garden at Springrove, Tsleworth (now the residence of Mr. 

 Pears, the energetic manufacturer of soap). Though 

 April 1st, 1891. 



