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India has remained an obscure plant down to the 

 present time. All are strong-growing species making 

 tangled bushes fifteen feet tall and twenty feet and 

 more through and all have fragrant musk-scented 

 flowers. In R. filipes the inflorescence is pyramidal 

 and the flowers are rather small with slender stalks 

 and are borne a hundred or more together in one 

 truss. The other species have larger flowers pro- 

 duced in broad, flattened, or rounded masses. In 

 R. Rubus the leaves are five-foliolate and hairy on the 

 underside; in R. Gentiliana they are five-foliolate and 

 glaucous below; in R. Helenae seven- to nine-foliolate 

 and slightly hairy on the underside; in R. longicuspis 

 they are seven- to nine-foliolate, intense green and 

 quite smooth. There are of course other technical 

 and obvious differences which need not be related 

 here, but all are extremely floriferous, last in bloom 

 for more than a month, and retain their foliage very 

 late in the season. No species of Rose is more beau- 

 tiful in flower and foliage than these and one and all 

 with their cascades of pure white fragrant flowers 

 are delightful garden shrubs. Further, they offer 

 possibilities in the development of new races of 

 Roses which the hybridist can best appreciate. 

 With rose-pink flowers there is the pretty R. Will- 

 mottiae which is an erect-growing shrub with arching 



