A manual of gardening for Bengal and Upper India (3rd edition) pp.475-477 (1874)
Thomas Augustus Charles Firminger
Tea-Scented Noisette
4. (Canina Borbonica.)—One of the most beautiful, though one of the commonest and oldest Roses in Calcutta; produces in greatest profusion large, handsome, pendulous, very double, though not well-formed, creamy-white flowers, with apricot centre, relieved most agreeably by the very peculiar and distinct yellow-green of the foliage; benefited by liberal pruning; considered difficult to propagate by cuttings. What the proper name of this Rose is I am at a loss to say. I conceived it might be Triomphe de Bolwyller. Canina Borbonica (misprinted evidently for Chinensis Borboniana) was the name originally bestowed by Redoute on Rose Edouard. How in Calcutta the name became transferred to this Rose it is now impossible to tell.