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this section are remarkable for their long, graceful, and often climbing shoots, 

 drooping flowers, and trifoliolate shining leaves. They are particularly dis- 

 tinguished by their deciduous, subulate, or very narrow stipules. Their 

 fruit is very variable. (Don's Mill.) Rambling shrubs, deciduous, or sub 

 evergreen ; somewhat tender in British gardens, where they only succeed 

 when planted against a wall. Natives of China. 



4. 60. R. si'nica Ait. The trifoliate-leaved 

 China Rose. 



Identification. Ait. Hort. Kew., 



ed. 2. vol. 3. p. 261. ; Lindl. 



Ros., p. 126. t. 16. ; Don's 



Mill., 2. p. 584. 

 Synonymes. R. trifollata Bosc 



Diet, ex Pair. ; R. ternata 



Pair. Suppl. 6. p. 284. ; R. che- 



rokeensis Bonn Horl. Cunt. 



ed. 8. p. 170. ; R. nivea Dec. 



Hort. Monsp. 137., Red. Ros. 



2. p. 81. with afig. ; R. hys- 



trix Lindl. Monog. ; R. \m\i- 



gkta ^lichx. 

 Engravings. Lindl. Ros., 1. 16. ; 



Hook. Bot. Mag ,2847. ; Bot. 



Reg., 1922. ; onr Jig. 627. after 



Redoute ; and Jig. 628. after 



Bot. Reg. 



627. R. slnica. 



628. R. sinica 



Spec. Char., Sfc. Stipules setaceous, deciduous. Cauline prickles equal, falcate. 

 Petioles and ribs of leaves prickly. Peduncles and fruit beset with straight 

 bristles. Sepals entire, permanent. Flowers white, solitary. Fruit elliptic, 

 orange-red. Disk conical. (Don's Mill.) A rambling sub-evergreen shrub. 

 China. Height 6 ft. to 8 ft. Introduced in 

 1759. Flowers white; May and June. Fruit 

 orange red ; ripe in September. 



J 61. R, Ba'nks/^ R. Br. Lad^ Banks's Rose. 



Identification. R. Br. in Ait. Hort. Kew., ed. 2. vol. 3. p. 256. ; 



Lindl. Rosar. Monog., p. 131. ; Dec. Prod., 2. p. 601. 

 Synonymes. M. Banksiaraa Abel Chin. 160., ; R. inermis Rozb. ? 

 Engravings. Bot. Mag., t. 1954. ; Red. et Thor. Ros., 2. p. 43. 



ic. ; and our^ig. 629. 



Spec. Char., Sfc. Without prickles, glabrous, smooth. 

 Leaflets 3 5, lanceolate, sparingly serrated, ap- 

 proximate. Stipules bristle-like, scarcely attached 

 to the petiole, rather glossy, deciduous. Flowers in 

 umbel-like corymbs, numerous, very double, sweet- 

 scented, nodding. Tube of the calyx a little 

 dilated at the tip. Fruit globose, black. (Dec. 

 Prod.) A climbing deciduous shrub. China. 

 Stems 10 ft. to 30 ft. Introduced in 1807. 

 Flowers white ; June and July. Fruit black. 



Varieti/. 



1 R. B 



629. R. Bknksia. 



630. . Binksfe liltea. 



2 luiea Lindl. (Bot. Reg., t. 1105., 

 and our fg. 630.) has the flowers of a 

 pale buff colour, and is a very beautiful 

 variety. 



This is an exceedingly beautiful and very re- 

 markable kind of rose ; the flowers being small, 

 round, and very double, on long peduncles, and 

 resembling in form the flowers of the double French 

 cherry, or that of a small ranunculus, more than 

 those of the generality of roses. The flowers of 

 R. Banksi alba are remarkably fragrant ; the scent 

 strongly resembling that of violets. Plants of neither 

 variety thrive in *-he atmosphere of the metropolis. 



