ROSA Indica, minor. Small Indian Rose.

CHARACTER SPECIFICUS.

Rosa germinibus subrotundis, pedunculisque leviter hispidis, glabris: floribus parvis, carneis, semperflorentibus: foliis glabris: petiolis aculeatis: foliolis oblongis, acutis, margine serrulatis, glabris: caule viridi, ad basin spinis rubris.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.

Rose with roundish seed-buds, and peduncles slightly hispid and smooth: flowers small, flesh-coloured, and ever-blooming: leaves smooth, and petioles prickly: leaflets oblong, pointed, with finely serrated edges, and smooth: stem green, with red thorns on the lower part.

This delicate little Rose was raised from seed of the Rosa Indica by Mr. Colville, and can only be regarded as a variety of that favourite species: but every material variation of a Rose that is in continual bloom, will most probably be considered equally as interesting, as the more specific distinction of any other whose beauty is lost to us above half the year. The very short time this variety has been in cultivation with us, precludes at present the possibility of ascertaining with accuracy the latitude of its growth: as yet we have not seen any plant above twice the size our figure represents, and never with larger flowers; but frequently in very small plants the blossoms have scarcely been an inch in diameter.