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IV. Bengal Rose. 

 China Rose. 

 Ever-blowing Rose. 

 Lawranceana. 

 Rosa Indica. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTERS. 



Shrub, often four or five feet high ; sometimes dwarfed, 



being two or three inches in height. 

 Branches, smooth, glossy, devoid of bristles ; almost 



always without glands ; having scattered red crook- 



ed thorns ; very rarely straight. 

 Leaves, composed of three or five leaflets; distant, 



smooth, elliptical, or oblong ; pointed or acumi- 



nated ; sometimes oval-lanceolated ; glossy on the 



upper surface ; pale and glaucous on the under, or 



tinged with purple ; simply, very rarely doubly 



toothed. 

 Leafstalks, glandulous ; armed underneath with small 



crooked thorns. 



Stipules, narrow, ciliated, glandulous. 

 Flower stalks^ usually articulated on the branches, 



smooth or glandulous. 

 Tube of calyx, smooth and glaucous, sometimes glan- 



dulous ; bulging at the base, or turbinated, or 



pear-shaped. 

 Sepals, simple or composite, smooth and glandulous ; 



deciduous before maturity. 

 Flowers, sometimes fragrant; solitary, or more com- 



monly clustering. 

 Stamens, irregularly curved upon the pistil during 



fecundation. 

 Styles, detached, from six to one hundred, usually 



salient. 

 Fruit, variable in form. 



