286 A Report on New and Rare Plants, §c. 



producing its flowers before the leaves. The flowers are of 

 an orange-yellow, with green tips to their segments, and are 

 seated in pairs upon a scape, a little more than three inches 

 long. The leaves are nearly erect, lanceolate, petiolate, quite 

 smooth, fleshy, slightly plaited, dark green above, beneath 

 somewhat glaucous, with the midrib incomplete, on the upper 

 side depressed in the middle, on the under side very pro- 

 minent. A figure of it has been given from a plant in the 

 Society's Garden, in the Exotic Flora, tab. 132. 



HARDY PLANTS. 



Trees or Shrubs. 

 It may be here stated that in future years this head of 

 the Report may be expected to be much more ample than it 

 has been hitherto ; young plants of this description do not 

 come into flower so early as those which are of an her- 

 baceous nature. 



XXXV. Rosa Indica var. ochroleuca. 



This plant was brought for the Society from China, in 

 1824, by Mr. Parks, as one of the interesting yellow China 

 Roses, which have long been known to collectors by the 

 drawings of the Chinese ; but upon flowering it proved to be 

 neither R. pseud-indica, nor R. xanihina, but a variety of 

 Rosa indica, with pale sulphur-coloured flowers. 



It is a plant with a less vigorous habit than the common 

 R. indica, resembling in that respect, R. i, odoratissima. 

 The branches when young are covered with many small 

 glands ; leaves smooth, of a thin texture, and not shining, 



