CHAP. XLII. ROSA‘CEE. ROSA. 779 

§ ix. Systyle. 
R. moschata nepalénsis (fig. 523.) is a musk rose; a native of Nepal; perhaps the sam 
Brundnit var. nepalénsis Bot. Reg. t. 829. and Don's Mill., 2. p.583, 6 °° Bane 
R. evratina Bose. is a native of Carolina; with large pale red flowers. 
§ x. Banksiane. 
R. hystrix Lind. Ros., p. 129. t.17., and our fig. 524., is a native of China and Japan; a rambling 
shrub, with flagelliform branches, large solitary flowers, and large oblong purple fruit. 
App. ii. Half-hardy Species of the Genus Rosa, not yet intro- 
duced. 
§ iv. Pimpinellifolie. 
R. nankinénsis Lour, Coch., 324., (Don’s Miil., 2, p. 569.) is a native of China; with small pale 
red double flowers ; growing to the height of 1 ft. 
§ vili. Canine, 
R. pseitdo-tndica Lindl. Ros., p. 132., (Don’s Mill., 2. p. 582.) is a native of China ; with the habit of 
R. indica, but with double deep yellow flowers. 
§ x. Banksiane. 
R. rectirva Roxb. (Lindl. Ros., p. 127. Don’s Mill., 2. p. 584.) is a climber; a native ot Nepal. 
R. triphgila Roxb. is a climbing shrub ; a native of China; perhaps the same as A. microcarpa 
or a var. of #, sinica. \ 
R. fragariaflora Ser. in Dec, Prod., 2. p. 601., is a climbing shrub; a native of China; with flowers 
the size and colour of those of Fragaria vésca. 
R. amygdalifolia Ser. in Dec. Prod., 2. p. 601., (Don’s Mili., 2. p. 585.) is a climbing shrub; a 
native of China; with large ovate fruit. , 
App. iii. Uncertain Species of Rosa. 
Above 100 species, “ not sufficiently known,” are described in Don’s Miller ; and, indeed, this 
phrase might be well applied to half those which are described in books, as known; the descriptions 
being frequently, and unavoidably, taken from dried specimens, In Royle’s Illustrations, &c., there 
are also several species mentioned as natives of Nepal, no descriptions of which have yet appeared. 
App. iv. A practical Arrangement of Roses in actual Cultivation 
in the Nursery of Messrs. Rivers and Son, Sawbridgeworth, 
Hertfordshire. 
The preceding arrangement is chiefly calculated for the botanist; for, if 
any person were desirous of ordering a collection of roses according to the 
names given in it, he would find it quite impossible to accomplish his object 
either in Britain or on the Continent. In short, it may be considered as a 
botanical fiction, only calculated to communicate some general ideas as to 
the wild roses of Europe, and as to the origin of the different varieties in 
