124 THE BOOK OF ROSES. 



Leaves, composed of three or five leaflets. 

 Leaflets, elliptic, the teeth short and rounded. 

 Flowers, large, very full, numerous, erect, of a vivid 

 pink. 



12. L'Heritier. 

 Rosa Reversa. 

 Violet Bengal. 

 Panciulated Bengal. 



Shrub, vine-like, very long, glaucous, generally purple. 

 Leaves, composed of five or nine leaflets. 

 Lea/lets, lanceolated, smooth, glaucous on the under 



surface, simply toothed towards the summit. 

 Stipules, smooth, entire or denticulated, edged with 



glands. 

 Flowers, middle-sized, semi-double, purple or pale 



violet, in multifloral clusters. 

 Petals, the inner ones striped with white. 

 Bt-acleal leaves, oval-lanceolated, entire, edged with a 



few glands. 

 Tube of calyx, ovoid, smooth, and glaucous. 



This variety bears a general resemblance to the 

 family of Cinnamon roses. 



1 3. Mdheca of Bengal. 

 Reversa Purpurina. 

 Dutch Bengal. 



Flowers, more numerous in each cluster than in the 

 preceding sub-variety ; of a purple-crimson colour, 

 shaded with pale violet when they expand; and 

 changing afterwards to purple and amaranth : so 

 that the shrub is covered with flowers of many 

 varieties of colour. 



Petals, velvety crimson towards the circumference, 

 striped with white towards the centre. 



