( 1954) 
Rosa Banksia, Lapy Banxs’s Ros. 
JER HH HHH SHb Hee 
’ Class and Order: p 
Icosanpria Potyeynis.. 
Generic Character.. 
Petala 5. Cal. urceolatus, 5-fidus, carnosus, collo coare- ~ 
tatus. Sem. plurima, hispida, calycis interiori lateri affixa. 
Specific: Character and Synonym. 
Rosa Banksia, inermis levis glabra, fructibus globosis, 
foliis ternatis pinnatisque nitidis, stipulis. setaceis dis-- 
tinctis.. Hort. Kew. ed. alt. 3. p, 258. 
Descr. Stem climbing, quite smooth, without thorns.. 
Leaves odd-pinnate, seldom ternate- in adult plants ; leaflets: 
two pair with an odd one; elliptical, reticularly-veined,, 
smooth, serrulate, serratures small, sharp-pointed. Stipules 2, 
within the: footstalk of the leaf, subulate, deciduous. Germ. 
hemispherical, smooth. Segments of calyx ovate-lanceolate,. 
mucronulate. Ovula many, intermixed with short bristles. 
Flowers white, fragrant, and very double. There is a 
specimen in the Banksian Herbarium, which appears to be 
of the same species ; in this the fruit is globular, in its dried 
state black, and about the size of the berries of the common 
Hawthorn. 
An elegant evergreen. Native of China. Will thrive and 
flower in the open air, if placed in a warm sheltered situa- 
tion; but being liable to be cut down, after the buds are 
‘formed, by our late frosts, its safest situation is in the 
border of the conservatory. Se 
