ROSA INDICA. 107 
Branches stout, glaucous green, armed with brown, 
scattered, compressed, hooked, equal prickles. Leaves 
shining, without pubescence; stipules very narrow, sub- 
ulate and glandular at the point; petioles rough with 
setze and little short, hooked prickles; leaflets 3-5, 
even, elliptic, acuminate, nearly simply crenato-serrat- 
ed, above dark green, glaucous beneath. Flowers very 
numerous, usually semi-double; bractee narrow, lan- 
ceolate, without pubescence, toothletted, glandular ; 
peduncles long, rough ; tube of the calyx oblong, naked; 
sepals deciduous, nearly simple, ovate, pointed, glan- 
dular on the outside; petals obcordate, concave; 
stamens 105-110; disk a thick flattened cone; ovaria 
40-50; styles nearly naked, exserted, very slender, dis- 
tinct. Frutt obovate, scarlet. 
t is now, perhaps, too late to inquire what was 
really intended by Linnzeus for R. indica, since his 
specific character and description will agree with no 
species from China at present known; and the figure of 
Petiver which he quotes to this, in which he is followed 
by Willdenow, belongs to a widely different plant, 
very nearly allied to R. Banksie, and which I have 
called R. microcarpa. Ihave, however, examined his 
specimen, which I see no reason to doubt belonging to 
this species. The specimen which Sir James Smith 
considers to have been the foundation of R. sinica I 
have also been permitted to see, and I feel little hesita- 
tion in pronouncing it to be a monstrous state of the 
species before us. The stipulz are narrow, pointed 
and finely toothed at the edge; the prickles are straight, 
very slender and unequal, which may be reasonably ex- 
pected on R. indica in so weak a state as this R. sinica 
evidently is. That name, therefore, becomes disen- 
gaged, and I have retained it for the plant which was 
distinguished by it in Hortus Kewensis. 
The delightfully fragrant “ Sweet-scented Chinese 
Rose” of the gardens isa variety, with ovate fruit and 
a dwarfer habit. It is right that cultivators should 
know that there are two sorts of this, of which the 
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