27— ROSA CHINENSIS, var. LONGIFOLIA Rehder 
Rosa chinensis , var. longifolia : a typo recedit foliolis elongatis, lanceolatis. 
R. chinensis , var. longifolia Rehder in Bailey, Cycl. Am. Hort.vol. iv. p. 1551 
(1902). 
R. longifolia Willdenow, Sp. Plant, vol. ii. p. 1079 (1799). — Poiret in Lamarck’s 
Encycl. vol. vi. p. 296 (1804). — Thory in Redonte, Roses , vol. ii. p. 27, t. (1821). — 
Trattinnick, Ros. Monogr. vol. ii. p. 101 (1823). — Dds£glise in Bull. Soc. Bot . Belg. 
vol. xv. p. 231 {Cat. Rais. Ros. p. 62 [1877]) (1876). 
R. indie a, S longifolia Lindley, Ros. Monogr. p. 106 (1820). — Seringe in De 
Candolle, Prodr. vol. ii. p. 600 (1825). 
R. per sicifolia x salicifolia Hort. 
This is a slender variety of the Chinese Rose, with lanceolate 
leaflets, two or three inches long by a quarter of an inch broad. The 
flowers are smaller than in the type, and the flowering shoots usually 
without prickles. 
Lindley calls it the willow-leaved Chinese Rose, and adds that it 
has little to recommend it to notice. 
This Rose is figured by Andrews 1 under the name of Rosa fraxi- 
nellaefolia . 
1 Roses , vol. ii. t. ioo (1828). 
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