262 ROSACE^i;. 



description is scarcely required ; we need only say that it is a large and 

 very double rose, of a beautiful pink colour and of delicious odour. The 

 calyx is covered with short setae tipped with a fragrant, brown, viscid 

 secretion. The petals are thin and delicate (not thick and leathery as 

 in the Tea Roses), and turn brown on drying. 



In making rose water, it is the custom in some laboratories to strip 

 the petals from the calyx and to reject the latter; in others, the roses are 

 distilled entire, and so far as we have observed, with equally good 

 result. 



Chemical Composition — In a chemical 



centifolia agree with those of R gallica, ev 

 tter, Enz in 1867 obtained from the former 



tannin, fat, resin, and sugar. 



lannm, tat, resm, and sugar. 



In the distillation of large quantities of the flowers, a little essential 

 oil is obtained. It is a butyraceous substance, of weak rose-like, but 

 not very agreeable odour. It contains a large proportion of inodorous 

 stearoptene. For further particulars see remarks under the head Aiku 

 of Rose. 



Uses— Cabbage roses are now scarcely employed in pharmacy for 

 any other purpose than making rose water. A syrup used to be pre- 

 pared from them, which was esteemed a mild laxative. 



OLEUM ROSiE. 



yf Hose, Rose Oil: ¥. Essence 



Botanical Origin—Rosa damascena Miller, var.— This is the rose 

 cultivated in Turkey for the production of attar of rose ; it is a tail 

 shrub with semi-double, light-red (rarely white) flowers, of moderate 

 size, produced several on a branch, though not in clusters. Liyi^S 

 specimens sent by Baur ^ which flowered at Tubingen, were examicea 



H. von Mohl 



-.-. . ^„ ^,^^^j.j. cixiu. iictumu iui auove. , , v 



R. damascena is unknown in a wild state. Koch * asserts tliau^ 

 was brought in remote times to Southern Italy, whence it spread nortn- 

 ward. In the opinion of Baker ' Rosa damascena is to be referrea w 



In the opinion of Baker ' Rosa damascena is 

 xyusa gallica (see p. 259 above) ; it must be granted 

 tioned m foot-note 2, as grown with one of us, appr( 



Rosa 2-allica. 



•ery 



History— Much as roses were prized by the ancients, no P]L^P^f ^JJJ 

 1 as rose water or attar of rosf^ wns nbfainp.d from them. TheUq 



name of Rose Oil {poSivov eXaiov) 



to be a fatty oil in which roses have been steeped. In Europe a sim 

 preparation was in use down to the last century, Oleum ^'^ff \. ' 



'osatum or rosaceiim. sion 



Pharma 



olive oil m 



P.H. 



r,;f vl^""" "!;^ ^"'^ '^ ^^°°^ t^^'^ ^o''*! ^«'- sig- father of Dr. Eanr of Constantinople-- ^^^• 



nifying perfume or odour ; the oil is called ^ Wiggers u. Huseiuaim, J(^''^'^ 



Sso SSV"."?'-^^^U-°- ^'>f^»^^-oii, and for 18G7 350. 



also Ghyul-yagh i.e. Hose-oil 4 Dendrologle., i. (18C9) 2.-.O. 



1,P.W- "°^ P-"""* f?Uowed by excellent « Journ. of Botany, Jan. lSi5. s. 



herhanum specimens has been kindly given « Lib. i. c. 53. 

 to me by Dr. Baur of Blaubeuren; the 



