306 THE BOOK OF ROSES. 



5. Bengal AcantJice. 

 Flowers, full, small, globular ; flax-coloured. 



IV. PINK OR FLESH-COLOURED FLOWERS. 



1. Common China, or Bengal Rose. 



Shrub, vigorous. 



Branches, thick and green. 



Tube of calyx, oval, smooth, glaucous, rather strangled 



at the summit. 

 Flowers, large or middle-sized j semi-double ; of an 



uncertain pink. 

 Styles, very salient. 



2. Camellia Bengal Rose. 

 Leaflets, thick. 



Tube of calyx, ovoid. 



Flowers, semi-double, middle-sized ; of a pale pink, 



sometimes deepening to cherry-colour. 

 Petals, large, flat, thick. 



3. Bengal Molibre. 



Shrub, differing only from the common Bengal, in 

 flowers of a more vivid pink. 



4. Bigottini. 



Branches, slenderer than the common Bengal ; tinged 



with purple. 

 Flowers, very double ; of a lilac-tinted flesh-colour, 



inclining to grey. 

 Petals, having their lateral edges a little curled. 



5. Bengal Lilac-pink Rose. 

 Tube of calyx, ovoi'd. 



Flowers, double, middle-sized, hemispherical ; of a pale 

 lilac. 



