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Rosa diffusa Roxburgh, Hort. Beng. 92 (nomen nudum) (1814); Fl. Ind. ed. 2, 



II. 515 (1832). 

 Rosaflorida Poiret, Encycl. Mefh. Suppl. IV. 715 (1816). 

 Rosa Grevillii Sweet, Hort. Brit. 138 (1827). 



Rosa Roxburghii Sweet, Hort. Brit. 138 (non Trattinnick) (1827). 

 Rosa rubeoidcs Andrews, Roses, II. t. 84 (1828). 

 .Rosa multijlora, (8 -plena Regel, Tent. Ros. Monog. 84 (1877); in Act. Hort. 



Peirop. V. 368 (1878). 

 Rosa centifolia Focke in Not. Bot. Gard. Edinbiirgh, V. 66 (non Linnaeus) 



(1911). 



Western Hupeh: north and south of Ichang, commonly culti- 

 vated, alt. 300-1300 m., May 1907 (No. 3607'^; rambling bush 1-2.5 

 m. tall, flowers rose-pink). Western Szech'uan: Mt. Omei, culti- 

 vated. May 1904 (Veitch Exped. Nos. 4881% 4881^) ; side of Yangtsze 

 River, probably an escape, April 1904 (Veitch Exped. No. 3530; bush 

 2 m. tall). Yunnan: near the city of Tah, alt. 2000 m., June-July 

 1906, G. Forrest (No. 4449, in part). 



Commonly cultivated and variable in size of flowers and leaves. A picture of 

 this Rose will be found under No. 0121 of the collection of Wilson's photographs. 



Rosa multiflora, var. camea, f. platyphylla Rehder & Wilson, n. 

 comb. 



Rosa midtiflora, var. platyphylla Thory in Redouts, Roses, II. 69, t. (1821). — 

 Lindley in Bot. Reg. XVI. t. 1372 (1830). — WiUmott, Gen. Rosa, I. 29 

 (1910). 



Rosa Thoryi Trattinnick, Ros. Monog. I. 85 (1823). 



Western Szech'uan: west and near Wen-ch'uan Hsien, culti- 

 vated, alt. 1800 m., July 1908 (No. 3610; bush 3 m. tall, flowers rose- 

 pink). 



Rosa diffusa Roxburgh, R. Grevillii Sweet, R. Roxburghii Sweet, and R. rubeoides 

 Andrews are probably synonyms of this Rose, but the evidence is rather obscure 

 and vague. 



This is the Rose long cultivated in western gardens under the name of Seven 

 Sisters Rose and sent from China to England about 1816. The well-known Rose 

 Crimson Rambler seems to us to be obviously a form of the " Seven Sisters " with 

 intense red and more numerous flowers. Miss Willmott (Gen. Rosa, I. 31 [1910]) 

 considers R. multiflora x R. chinensis as the parentage of the "Crimson Rambler," 

 but we cannot discover the slightest influence of R. chinensis in this Rose any more 

 than we can in the " Seven Sisters." Both these Roses have long been cultivated 

 in China, and Wilson has often seen them both in gardens in Hupeh and Szech'uan. 

 Like many other ornamental garden plants the Rose Crimson Rambler was doubtless 

 introduced from China to Japan. 



Rosa Brunonii Lindley, Ros. Monog. 120, t. 14 (1820). — Hooker in 

 Bot. Mag. LXIX. t. 4030 (1843). 



