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RÒSA índica var. S m i t h i i .
Smith’s Yettow Noisette Rose.
Linnean Class and Order. IC O S A N D R IA P O L Y G Y N IA .
Natural Order. R O SA C E A i. Juss. gen. p . 334.
R O S A . Calycis ò - f d i , tubo urceolato, carnoso. P e ta la 5. Stamina
multiplici ordine copiosissima. Oraria indefinita, parietibus tubi calycini
undique inserta. S ty li totidem, exserti, unilaterales. Achenia exsucca,
Crustacea.
Frútices (bemispb. boreal, regionibus temperatis propria!) plerumque
aculeati. TdWararb Simplicia. Flores speeiosj, deZeciissími. D . Don Mss.
1. R . indica, foliolis ellipticis acuminatis glabris crenato-serratis subtùs
glaucis, ovariis 40-50. Lindi. Monog. p . 106.
Rosa indica. Linn. sp. p i. p . 705. Lawr. ros. t. 26. Willd. sp. p i. 2.
p .1 0 1 9 . A it. hort. kew. e d .2 . p . 266. Redout, r o s .l. 1 .14. et 2. 1 .15.
D C . prodr. 2. p . 600.
Var. Smithii, floribus coplosis corymbosis plenis pallidè sulpbureis fragran-
tissimis.
An upright, much branched shrub, from four to six feet
high, sparingly armed with scattered, compressed, hooked
prîckles. Branches smooth, tinged with purple. Leaves composed
of from five to seven, and the upper ones rarely of
more than three leaflets, which are ovate, pointed, rather
coriaceous, rounded at the base, regularly serrated, with
short, incurved, somewhat adpressed, pointed, equal teeth,
slightly revolute at the margin; smooth on both surfaces;
the wpper of rather a deep green; the under paler; slightly
glaucous, and beautifully veined. loot-stalks and rachis narrow,
channelledvsparingly glandular, otherwise quite smooth,
and occasionally furnished with a few hooked prickles. Stipules
narrow, pointed, and fringed with glands. Flowers about
the size of the double-yellow China Rose, but of a deeper
yellow, and like the Noisette Rose, in clustered corymbs of
from ten to twenty-two, and highly fragrant. Calyx tube tri-
binate, glandular: segments broadly ovate, with a long,
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