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7JOSA CE^E. HO SA. 



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.507 



Odeur de The", Fr. ; has semidouble flowers, of 

 a most delicious fragrance, strongly resembling 

 the scent of the finest green tea. There are 

 numerous subvarieties. 



* R. i. 4 longifolia Lindl. Ros., p. 106. ; R. longi- 



folia Willd. Enum., ii. 1079., Red. Ros.,ii. t. 27. ; 

 R. semperflorens var. 7. N. Du Ham., vii. 

 p. 22. ; R. .valicifolia Hort. ; and our Jig. 507. ; 

 has the stems nearly unarmed, and long lanceo- 

 late leaflets. 



R. i. 5 pumila Lindl. Ros., p. 106., is a dwarf 

 variety, with purplish flowers, having ovate 

 petals. 



* R. i. 6 caryophyllea Red. Ros., iii. p. 69., has the 



flowers in a kind of panicle, and the leaflets 

 large and thin. 



R. i. 7 pannosa Red. has the stems and branches 

 prickly; the leaflets ovate, and red beneath, 

 with the stipules so finely denticulated as to 

 give them somewhat of a fringed or pannose appearance. Flowers 

 drooping a little, purple on the outside, and with the inner petals 

 rose-coloured. 



* R. i. 8 cruenta Red., and Don's Mill., ii. p. 582. ; differing from the 



above principally in having the stems and branches almost un- 

 armed, and the stipules almost entire. 



* R. z. 9 Fraseriana Hort. Brit., p. 211., and Don's Mill., ii. p. 582.; a 



hybrid, with double pink flowers. 



1 R. i. 10 ruga Lindl. Bot. Reg., t. 1389., has double blush, changing 

 to white, sweet-scented flowers. It is a hybrid between R. i. odora- 

 tissima and R. arvensis, brought from Italy, where it was raised by 

 Mr. Clare. It grows freely, making shoots 10 ft. or 12 ft. long in a 

 season. 



R. i. 1 1 ochroleuca Bot. Reg., the yellow China Rose, has large cream- 

 coloured flowers, deepening almost into yellow in the centre. It was 

 introduced by Mr. Parks, in 1824, and has rapidly become a great 

 favourite, in pots and ornamental flower-gardens. 



* 66. R. SEMPERFLO^RENS Curt. The ever-flowering China Rose. 



Identification. Curt. Bot. Mag., t. 284. : Smith Exot. Bot, 2. p. 91.; Jacq. Schonbr , 3 p 281 Don's 



Mill, 2. p. 582. 

 Synonymes. R. diversifblia Vent. Cels., t.*35. ; R. bengalensis Pers. Ench.. 2. p. 50. ; R indica Red 



Ros., 1. p. 49. t. 13., p. 123. t. 46., and 2. p. 37. t. 16. 

 Engravings. Lawr. Uos., t. 23. ; N. Du Ham., vii. t 18. ; and our 5lb 



fig. 508., of a double French variety. 



Spec. Char., fyc. Branches dark green, armed with 

 scattered, compressed, hooked prickles, and a 

 very few glands. Leaflets 3 5, ovate-lanceolate, 

 crenate-serrated, shining above, but glaucous and 

 slightly setigerous beneath. Sepals compound, 

 narrow. Fruit spherical. (Don's Mill., ii. p. 582.) 

 Native of China. Flowers solitary, single, or semi- 

 double, deep crimson. There are some very 

 splendid varieties of this species, with semidouble 

 crimson flowers, in our gardens ; and the French 

 appear to have some others still more beautiful, 

 which have not yet been imported. A shrub, 

 introduced in 1789, growing from 8 ft. to 10 ft. 

 in height, and flowering throughout the year. 

 For this beautiful rose we are indebted to Gilbert Slater, Esq., Low-Layton, 

 Essex, a gentleman to whose memory a genus has not yet been devoted, 

 though he was the means of introducing several of our finest plants- 



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