. Handbook of hardy trees, shrubs, and herbaceous plants ... Based on the French work of Messrs. Decaisne and Naudin ...entitled 'Manuel de l'amateur des jardins,' and including the original woodcuts by Riocreux and Leblanc. Plants, Ornamental. 164 Rosacea:— with slender branches, armed here and there with curved prickles. Leaves shining, strongly tinted with dark purple, composed of 3 to 5 ovate-lanceolate den- tate leaflets. Flowers solitary at the ex- tremities of the branches, double or semi-double, deep crimson, almost scent- less. The calyx-tube is shortly obovoid and glabrous, and
. Handbook of hardy trees, shrubs, and herbaceous plants ... Based on the French work of Messrs. Decaisne and Naudin ...entitled 'Manuel de l'amateur des jardins,' and including the original woodcuts by Riocreux and Leblanc. Plants, Ornamental. 164 Rosacea:— with slender branches, armed here and there with curved prickles. Leaves shining, strongly tinted with dark purple, composed of 3 to 5 ovate-lanceolate den- tate leaflets. Flowers solitary at the ex- tremities of the branches, double or semi-double, deep crimson, almost scent- less. The calyx-tube is shortly obovoid and glabrous, and the re- curved calyx-leaves are deciduous. Ac- cording to Dr. Lindley this is the only Rose that loses its stamens at the same time as the petals, a character which distinguishes it from the Tea Rose; but a still greater difference pointed out by that eminent botanist is the smaller number (about fifteen) of ovaries in each flower of the typical Bengal Rose, whilst the Tea Rose has from forty to fifty. The first Bengal Rose appears to have been introduced into England about the year 1771, by whom it is uncertain ; but it is averred that an Englishman named Ker brought it from Canton in 1780, and that another Eng- lishman, Slater, introduced a second variety from the same country about the same time. Hence the name China Rose, R. Ghinensis, given to it by some authors, whilst others con- sider it to be a mere variety of R. Indica. Innumerable varieties are referred to this species by horticulturists. It is scarcely possible to distinguish specifically the Bourbon Rose, R. Borbdnlca (fig. 90), from R. Indica, which differs only in its larger stature, the presence of bristles intermixed with the spines on the branches and petioles, leaves of 5 to 7 leaflets, and flowers in corymbs 3 to 7 on the same peduncle. It is very probable that it is not really indigenous in the Isle of Bourbon, but imported thither from China or India. Its in- Fig, 89, Bengal Rose. (^ uat. size.). Please
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