RO'SA INDICA. 
CHINA ROSE. 
Class. Order. 
ICOSANDRIA. POLYGYNIA. 
Natural Order. 
ROSACEiE. 
Native of 
Height. 
Flowers in 
Duration. 
Cultivated 
China. 
3 to 15 ft. 
Jan. to Dec. 
Perennial. 
in 1789. 
No. 185. 
Having- given the derivation of Rosa under No. 
177, it is unnecessary to do so in this place. Indica, 
from India, a term g-enerally employed in a very 
extended sense, comprehending- not only the two 
Asiatic peninsulas, east and west of the Ganges, but 
also a large tract of country spreading northerly 
over the Chinese Empire ; as well as numerous is- 
lands in the Indian and pacific oceans, such as the 
Phillipines, Borneo, Sumatra, Ceylon, &c. 
Notwithstanding a great number of Roses have, 
of late years, been introduced from China, still the 
common blush, which now forms so prominent an 
ornament to this country, is distinctly known as 
the China Rose, unencumbered with further ex- 
planation. The usual appearance of this Rose is 
loose and open, much more so than our drawing, 
which was taken before the flower became fully 
expanded, at which«period it possesses great deli- 
cacy and beauty. On its further expansion the 
petals assume a recurvity, which, though it lessens 
the individual rose-like shape, has no effect on the 
gay and imposing character of the whole plant; nor 
on the pleasure excited by such a profusion of the 
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