804. 
ROSA INDICA @. odoratissima. 
Sweet-scented China Rose. 
a 
ICOSANDRIA POLYGYNIA. 
Nat. ord. RosackEm. Juss. gen. 334.. Div. I. Rosm. 
ROSA. Supra vol.1. fol. 46. 
Diy. IX. Canine. Aculii equales adunci. Foliola ovata eglandulosa; ser- 
raturis conniventibus. Sepala decidua. Discus incrassatus faucem 
claudens. Surculi majorum arcuati. Lindl. mon. p. 97. 
R. indica, foliolis ellipticis acuminatis glabris crenato-serratis subtus glaucis, 
ovariis 40-50. Lindl. 1. c. p. 106. 
- f. odoratissima, fructu ovato, fioribus odoratissimis. » Lindl. l. c. 
R. odorata. Sweet hort. sub. 119. et Hortorum. 17 
R. indica fragrans. Redout. ros. 61. t. 19. Trattinn.. Synod. Botan. 
Series. IV. 
This is the sweet-scented China Rose of the gardens, 
which was originally raised from seed by Sir Abraham 
Hume, and by him distributed to the public. In the French 
gardens it is called, the Odeur de Thé Rose. It would be 
well if a few more of the newly-raised varieties: of garden 
roses possessed an equal degree of merit to recommend 
them to attention, or at least as permanent characters to 
distinguish them, as this has, at once, the most fragrant and 
most delicate of its tribe. 
Our drawing was made at Messrs. Colyill’s Nursery. 
A work entitled Synodus Botanica professing to contain 
an account of every family, genus, and species of plant 
which ever has been published, has been for some time an- 
nounced in Germany; the author M. Leopold Trattinnick, 
Keeper of the Royal Museum at Vienna, &c.; and the plan 
original; and truly such we have found it. The three first 
parts have lately come to our hands; in the first of which 
the species and varieties of Rose are treated of much at large. 
The Chinese garden species, a variety of one of which is the 
subject Of this article, are contained in a portion, or series, 
called Smithiana, along with R. semperflorens, under the 
name of R. sinica of Linnzeus, which his own specimens 
have long ago shown to be R. indica; R. chinensis Jacq. 
