I'm pleased to report that the specimens sent to Quarry Hill, (now Sonoma Botanical Garden), are still viable and one is being nursed and brought along by Don Gers.

This wonderful species is not done in N. America yet!

Two rooted specimens sent/donated to Howard Higson Quarryhill Botanic Garden 2-22-18.

A Manual of Gardening for Bengal and Upper India - Page 484 (1874)
Thomas Augustus Charles Firminger

Rosa Lyellii.
ROSE OF THE DOON.
Koozea.
A plant of extensive growth, common in the Upper Provinces, but not met with, that I am aware of, near Calcutta: bears large handsome double-blush flowers.

Illustrations of the Botany and Other Branches of the Natural History of the Himalayan Mountains, vol. 1 (1839) p. 203
John Forbes Royle

Nothing can be more ornamental than the double white rose of Northern India and the Deyra Doon, R. Lyellii, kooza of the natives;