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Disk, flat, fleshy. 

 Styles, hairy, enclosed. 

 Flowers, large. 



This rose is a native of China or Japan ; and has 

 been seen in Europe only in an imperfect state. 



III. Banksian Rose. 

 Rosa Banksice. 

 Rosa Banksiana. 

 Rosa Inermis. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTERS. 



Shrub, thornless. 



Branches, slender, climbing, dark green. 



Stipules, subulated, sometimes hairy, deciduous. 



Leafstalks, naked, occasionally hairy. 



Leaves, composed of three, very rarely of five leaflets. 



Leaflets, flat, oval-lanceolated, obtuse; often undula- 

 ted; simply serrated; naked, except at the base 

 of the midrib, which is hairy. 



Flowers, numerous, white, small, very double, violet- 

 scented. 



Floral leaves, small and deciduous. 



Flowerstalks, naked, slender, thickened on the upper 

 end. 



Sepals, ovate, pointed, entire. 



Styles, detached, rather salient. 



Fruit, unknown. 



This beautiful rose was first noticed by Brown, in 

 the Hortus Kewensis, and named after the lady of Sir 

 Joseph Banks. It was taken to France by Boursault 

 in 1817. 



