CHAP. XLII. 



RO V SA. 



779 



ix. Systyke. 



R. moschdta nepalcnsis (fig. 523.) is a musk rose ; a native of Nepal ; perhaps the lame as R. 

 Brunbnjt var. nepalensis Bot. Reg., t.829., and Don's Mill., 2. p. 583. 

 R. evratlna Bosc. is a native of Carolina ; with large pale red flowers. 



$ x. 



R Mstrix Lind Ros p. 129. 1. 17, and our fig. 524., is a native of China and Japan ; a rambling 

 hrub, with flagelliform branches, large solitary flowers, and large oblong purple fruit. 



App. ii. Half-hardy Species of the Genus Rosa, not yet intro- 



duced. 



iv. PimpincUifolice. 



R. nankintnsis Lour. Cpch.,324., (Don's Mill., 2. p. 569.) is a native of China ; with small pale 

 red double flowers ; growing to the height of 1 ft. 



$ viii. Canines. 



R. pseudo-indica Lindl. Ros., p. 132., (Don's Mill., 2. p. 582.) is a native of China ; with the habit of 

 R. indica, but with double deep yellow flowers. 



x. Banksianse. 



R.rectrva Roxb. (Lindl. Ros., p. 127. Don's Mill., 2. p. 584.) is a climber; a native of Nepal. 



R. triphylla Roxb. is a climbing shrub; a native of China; perhaps the same as R, microcarpa, 

 or a var. of /?. sinica. 



R. frapariaifldra Ser. in Dec. Prod., 2. p. 601., is a climbing shrub ; a native of China ; with flowers 

 the size and colour of those of Fragaria vsca. 



R. amygdalifblia Ser. in Dec. Prod., 2. p. 601., (Dem's Mill., 2. p. 585.) is a climbing shrub ; a 

 native of China; with large ovate fruit 



App. iii. Uncertain Species of Rosa. 



Above 100 species, " not sufficiently known," are described in Don's Miller ; and, indeed, this 

 phrase might be well applied to half those which are described in books, as known ; the descriptions 

 being frequently, and unavoidably, taken from dried specimens. In Royle's Illustrations, &c., there 

 are also several species mentioned as natives of Nepal, no descriptions of which have yet appeared. 



App. iv. A practical Arrangement of Roses in actual Cultivation 

 in the Nursery of Messrs. Rivers and Son, Sawbridgeworth, 

 Hertfordshire. 



The preceding arrangement is chiefly calculated for the botanist; for, if 

 any person were desirous of ordering a collection of roses according to the 

 names given in it, he would find it quite impossible to accomplish his object 

 either in Britain or on the Continent. In short, it may be considered as a 

 botanical fiction, only calculated to communicate some general ideas as to 

 the wild roses of Europe, and as to the origin of the different varieties in 



