346 ARBORETUM ET FRUTICETUM BRITANNICUM. 
4 « RB. (a.) s. 2 Russelliana, raised from seed by Mr. Sinclair of the New 
Cross Nursery. A very strong-growing variety, quite deciduous, with 
blush flowers. 
A «xR, (a.) s. 3 Clarei. The Rose Clare. (Bot. Reg., t. 1438.) —An ele- 
gant variety, with deep red flowers. Both these varieties are as 
much entitled to be considered species, as many so designated in 
this enumeration. 
Used for the same purposes as the Ayrshire rose ; from which it differs in re- 
taining its leaves the greater part of the winter, and in its less vigorous shoots. 
C. Species Natives of Asia, and One of them of Africa. 
A 56. R. MULTIFLO‘RA Thunb. The many-flowered Rose. 
Identification. Thunb. Fl. Japs 214,; Dec. Prod., 2. p. 598.3 Don’s Mill., 2. p. 583. 
Synonymes. R. flava Donn Hort. Cant. ed, 4. p.121.; R. florida Poir. Suppl.; R. diffdsa Roxb. 
Engravings. Bot. Mag., t. 1059. ; Bot. Reg., t. 425. ; and our jig. 620. 
Spec. Char.,§c. Branches, peduncles, and calyxes 
tomentose. Shoots very long. Prickles slender, 
scattered. Leaflets 5—7, ovate-lanceolate, soft, 
finely wrinkled. Stipules pectinate. Flowers’ in 
corymbs, and, in many instances, very numerous. 
Buds ovate globose. Sepals short. Styles 
protruded, incompletely grown together into a 
long hairy column. (Dec. Prod.) A deciduous 
climbing shrub. Japan and China. Stems 10 ft. 
to 30 ft. Introduced in 1822. Produces a 
profusion of clustered heads of single, semi- 
double, or double, white, pale red, or red, flowers = 
in June and July. Fruit bright red; ripe in % 
September. 4 
Varieties. 
A oR. m.°2 Grevillei Hort, R. Roxbarghii 
Hort.; R. platyphylla Red. Ros. p. 69. ; 
The Seven Sisters Rose. (Our jig. 621.) 
—aA beautiful variety, with much larger and more double flowers, 
€90. &. multiflora. 
621, R. multifldra Greviller, 
of a purplish colour. No climbing rose better deserves cultivation 
