Book  (1874)  Page(s) 476.  
 
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.

Book  (1872)  Page(s) 90.  
 
Tea-Scented Noisette.
...the five named below are to be met with in Calcutta:
...5th. Canina Borbonica.—Produces large handsome pendulous very double creamy-white flowers, with Apricot centre, which are relieved most agreeably by the very peculiar and distinct yellow-green of the foliage.

Book  (1864)  Page(s) 422.  
 
Bourbon Roses.
3. Canina Borbonica (dissimilar in character to all other Roses of this group, to which, though placed here, it can hardly belong).—One of the most beautiful, though one of the commonest and oldest, Roses in Calcutta; produces large, handsome, pendulous, very double, though not well-formed, creamy-white flowers, with apricot centre, in greatest profusion, relieved most agreeably by the very peculiar and distinct yellow-green of the foliage; benefitted by liberal pruning; considered difficult to propagate by cuttings.