170 Rosacec—Rosa. 
are all from Eastern Asia and North America. We distinguish 
in this section :—- 
R. levigata (R. Sinica of gardens), the Georgian Rose, has 
climbing naked or armed stems, leaves of three ovate-lan- 
ceolate rather coriaceous shining denticulate very glabrous 
leaflets. The flowers are solitary, large, and pure white. The 
ripe fruit is obovoid-oblong, red, clothed with spiny bristles, 
and surmounted by the calyx-leaves. This beautiful species 
has become naturalised in the woods of Georgia in North 
America, where it reaches the summits of the highest trees. 
It is supposed to be of Chinese origin, but it is not the true A. 
Sinica, which differs in having prickles on its petioles, whilst. 
in this species they are unarmed. It is probable that these 
two species, so admirably adapted for covering trellis-work, 
ete., will soon be introduced to our gardens, where they might 
compete with the following. 
R. Banksice, the true Banksian Rose, a native of China, is a 
climbing or trailing shrub, producing stems 30 feet or more in 
length in a more southern climate, though with us it requires 
a warm wall and slight protection in severe weather. It is 
almost totally unarmed, and perfectly glabrous, except upon 
the margin of the stipules, which are very deciduous, and upon 
the principal nerve of the leaflets. These are three to five in 
number, plane, oblong-lanceolate, and rather shiny. This 
Rose, one of the most beautiful of the genus, is a very abundant 
bloomer, with white, yellow, or salmon very double agreeably 
fragrant flowers produced in large clusters. 
Banks’s Rose, or, more strictly speaking, Lady Bauks’s Rose, so 
named by Robert Brown in honour of the wife of the celebrated 
patron of English botanists, was introduced into England for 
the first time about the commencement of the present century; 
but since then it has been re-imported several times, and the 
last time, in 1850, by Mr. Fortune, while travelling in China 
for the Royal Horticultural Society of London. These sepa- 
rate introductions have supplied us with different varieties, 
sufficiently diverse in the colour of the flowers, though agreeing 
in habit. The prettiest are: Grandiflora dlba pléna, with 
small quite white flowers; the Old Yellow, with double almost 
scentless flowers; and the Salmon-coloured Banksian, whose 
bronze flowers appear to be of a mixture of purple and yellow. 
R. anemonceflora, Anemone-flowered Rose, agrees bit im- 
perfectly with this group, though it would be difficult. to find 
