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small shining roundish-ovate leaflets, quite free from puhescence ; the flowers solitary, very 

 double, pale red, the calyx covered with close-set straight prickles. It has a resemblance to the 

 Macartney Rose in its general appearance. — Fl. June to August — Cult. 1822 — China. 



R. indica, Linn. (Monthly or Common China Rose). A stout shrub, with glaucous branches 

 armed with scattered, compressed, equal hooked brown spines ; the leaves are shining, without 

 pubescence, and consist of 3-5 elliptic leaflets ; flowers pink, usually semidouble in panicles ; 

 fruit obovate, scarlet. Syn. : R. sinica, Linn. ; R. semperflorens carnea, Rossig. There are 

 numerous varieties, of which the most distinct are : odoratissima, with most deliciously scented 

 flowers (R. odoratissima, Scot. ; R. indica fragrans, Red.) ; ochroleuca, with large double cream- 

 coloured scentless flowers ; fiavescens, the true tea-scented yellow China Rose ; longifolia, with 

 long lanceolate leaflets (R. longifolia, Willd. ; R. salicifolia, Hort.); pumila, a form smaller in 

 every part. The original of the race of Noisette Roses is a hybrid descendant from this species. 

 — Fl. March to Novembei-— Cult. 1789— China. 



R. SEMrERFLORENS, Curt, (ever-flowering China Rose). A smaller elegant shrub, with 

 slender branches armed with scattered compressed hooked prickles and few glands ; the leaves 

 are shining, deeply stained with purple, of 3-5 ovate-lanceolate leaflets ; flowers solitary, deep 

 crimson ; fruit spherical. Syn. ; R. diversifolia, Vent. ; R. bengalensis, Pers. ; R. chinensis, 

 Jacq. ; R. indica, Red. — Fl. March to November — Cult. 1789 — China. 



R. Lawrenceana, Sweet (Miss Lawrence's China Rose). A compact shrub of about a foot 

 high, the branches armed with large, nearly straight prickles ; the leaflets ovate, and the 

 flowers small, semi-double, pale blush. Syn. : R. semperflorens minima, Sims. — El. March to 

 November — Cult. 1810 — China. The parent of the class of Fairy Roses. 



Sect. Systyl^e. Styles cohering into an elongated column ; stipules adnate. Deciduous, or in 



many cases sub-evergreen shrubs, with much 

 the habit of Sect. Caninai. 

 R. systyla, Bat. (close-styled Dog-rose). A 

 slender shrub of 8 to 10 feet high, with much 

 the character of R. canina ; the surculi are 

 assurgent, the prickles strong and hooked, the 

 leaflets ovate, the flowers fragrant, pinkish, the 

 fruit ovate oblong. Syn. ; R. collina, Sm. ; 

 R. stylosa, Desv. ; B. brevistyla, D. C. Var. 

 lanceolata has ovate-lanceolate leaves, and 

 spherical fruit ; Monsonice is dwarfer, and has 

 the flower-bearing shoots erect, and terminated 

 by an unusually large bunch of flowers. — Fl. 

 May to July — Britain and Europe. 



R. arvensis, Huds. (field Rose). A rambling 

 or trailing shrub, with slender branches armed 

 with scattered equal prickles, either falcate or 

 straightish ; the leaves are dark green, distant, 

 of 5-7 ovate somewhat waved leaflets ; the 

 flowers white with a yellow base, slightly 

 scented, solitary on the branchlets, numerous 

 on the rootshoots ; fruit scarlet, round or ob- 

 Rosa systyla. long. Syn. : R. sylvestris, Herm. ; R. scan- 



dens, Mcench. ; R. herperhodon, Ehrh. ; R. Halleri, Krok. ; R. fusca, Mcench. ; R. serpens, 

 JEhrh. ; R. rampans, Reyne. Var. hybrida has semidouble delicate flesh-coloured flowers : it is 

 ailed in nurseries the Double-hip Rose (R. germinata, Rau. ; R. hybrida, Schleich. ; R. 

 Gallica hybrida, Gand.). The Ayrshire Roses appear to have originated from a variety called 

 Ayrshirea (R. capreolata, Neill), — Fl. July — Britain. 



