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2. Nasturtium-scented China Rose. 

 La Bichonne. 



Bengal Bichon. 



Raspberry-scented China Rose. 

 Shrub, delicate and very small. 



Flowers, middle-sized or small, double ; of a purple- 

 crimson, fragrant, with concave petals. 



3. Bengal Cramoisi Double. 

 La Sanguine. 

 Blood-red China Rose. 



Shrub, feeble, spreading. 



Branches, Leaves, and Flowerstalks, very purple. 



Flowers, middle-sized, rather globular, very double, 



velvety ; of a vivid purple-crimson, with concave 



petals, the base white. 

 Styles, twenty to twenty-five. 



4. Bengal B our dug e Rose. 

 Shrub, feeble. 



Tube of calyx, oval, glandulous. 



Flowers, very double, small; of a crimson red, or violet- 

 purple. 



5. Bengal Cherry-coloured Rose. 

 Bengal with long Peduncles. 



Shrub, low and spreading. 

 Flowerstalks, long. 



Tube of calyx, smooth, oval-pyriform. 

 Flowers, semi-double, middle-sized ; of a cherry-colour, 

 or light red. 



6. Blue China, or Bengal Rose. 

 Branches, slender. 



Tube of calyx, smooth, having sometimes a collar at 



the base. 



Flowers, middle-sized, very double, of a blueish-purple. 

 Styles, seventy or eighty. 



