108 ROSA SEMPERFLORENS. 
most common has a very inferior perfume to the other, 
which is propagated with more difficulty. 
The willow-leaved Chinese Rose, R. longifolia, is 
another variety, but it has little to recommend it to 
notice. . . 
I can by no means agree with the editor of Re- 
douté’s Roses, in considering this a variety of R. sem- 
perflorens, from which it differs in many important cha- 
racters, as will be seen under the following species. 
59. ROSA semperflorens. 
R. foliolis ovato-lanceolatis crenato-serratis, ovariis 15, 
petalis integris. 
R. indica Burm. ind. 117? 
R. chinensis Jacq. obs. 3. 7. ¢.55. Willd. sp. 2. 1078. 
Smith in Rees in l. 
R. semperflorens Curt. mag. 284. Willd. sp. 2. 1078. 
Lawr. ros. t. 23. Ménch meth. 290. Ross. ros. 
t.12. Sm! exot. bot. 2. t. 91. Jacq. schinbr. 3. 
t. 231. Ait! kew. ed. alt. 3. 266. Smith! in Rees 
in I. , 
R. diversifolia Vent. cels. t. 35. 
R. bengalensis Pers. syn. 2. 50. 
R. indica Redout. ros. 1. 49. t. 13.—123. t. 46.—2. 37. 
t.. 16, 
Hab. in China, Ekeberg. (v. v. c. & s. sp. herb. Banks.) 
A spreading, elegant shrub. Branches slender, 
dark green, armed with scattered, compressed, hooked 
prickles and a very few glands. Leaves shining, dis- 
tant, deeply stained with purple ; stipule narrow, flat, 
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