delicate, it at once became a favourite under the name of 

 " The Lady Banks' rose," or the " Rose without a thorn," 

 the latter a hardly correct name. In 1819 it was figured 

 in the Botanical Register (Plate 397) in the same white 

 double condition, and from the same garden, where it had 

 attained twenty feet in height or more, and with the remark 

 that the single flowered variety had been found by Dr. 

 Abel growing on the walls of Nankin. In 1820 Lindley's 

 admirable Monograph of Roses was published, in which 

 the double white again appears as the only form known. 

 In 1827 the double yellow is for the first time figured, and 

 by Lindley in the volume of the Botanical Register (Plate 

 1105), with the observation that the first indication of its 

 existence is to be found in a note (overlooked when 

 elaborating the Monograph) in Roxburgh's Hortus Ben- 

 galensis, where under the name of R. inermis both the 

 double white and double yellow are alluded to with their 

 Chinese names, as they were also in the Roxburghian MSS., 

 preserved in the Banksian library. It was on discovering 

 this, after the publication of the Monograph of Roses, that 

 the Royal Horticultural Society, of which Lindley was 

 secretary, directed Mr. John Damper Parks (who was 

 being sent to China in 1823 by the Society) to obtain the 

 yellow form, which he did, returning with it in 1824. Dr. 

 Lindley describes it as, on the whole, a more desirable 

 plant than the white variety, being more hardy, flowering 

 more freely, and having deeper green leaves, but adds that 

 it is less fragrant. The only other early notice of this 

 plant is by Dr. Abel in his narrative of his travels in 

 China, to which country he went as physician to Lord 

 Macartney's embassy. Abel mentions it as R. Banlsiana. 

 Indigenous specimens of R. Banhsicc are in the Kew 

 Herbarium collected in the Ichang province on the 

 JNan-to Mountains by Dr. Henry, and in Yun-nan, 

 by the Abbe" Delavay, also from Japan (Siebold). The 

 single yellow form was sent to Kew by Mr. Hanbury, from 

 his magnificent garden of the Palazzo Orengo, near Men- 

 tone, in 1871, and by Messrs. Paul and Son, from Ches- 

 hunt, m 1887. As stated above, the specimen figured is 

 from Canon Ellacombe's garden at Bitton, near Bath, 

 where it is quite hardy.— J. B. H. 



Fig. 1, Stamen; 2, vertical section of calyx-tube, ahowing carpels; 

 <i, carpels -.—all enlarged. 



