302 THE BOOK OF ROSES. 



I. WHITE FLOWERS. 



1. White Bengal, or China Rose. 

 Branches, having at the base a few glands or bristles. 

 Flowers, semi-double ; white, sometimes pale pink, or 



flesh-colour. 



2. Sarmentous White Bengal,. 

 Heine Blanche. 



Branches, Thorns, and Flowerstalks, of a purple-brown. 



Flower-buds, pink. 



Flowers, large, semi-double ; white. 



3. Glossy -kafed Bengal Rose. 

 Bengal Lucida. 



Shrub, rather delicate, branches slender and green. 

 Leaflets, green, glossy, narrow. 

 Calyx, oval-oblong. 

 Flower-buds, red or pink. 



Flowers, middle-sized or small; semi-double, white, 

 usually tinged with pink. 



4. Bengal Talbot Rose. 



Shrub, low and delicate. 



Branches, short and green. 



Flowerstalks, smooth. 



Tube of calyx, ovoi'd or ob-conical. 



Flower-buds, white. 



Flowers, large or middle-sized, double or full ; pure white. 



5. Bengal Taglioni. 



Branches, pretty numerous, armed with rare short 



thorns. 



Leaflets, elliptical, serrated. 

 Flowers, large, in clusters of three or four ; two or three 



inches wide, very full; pure white. 



