Article (misc)  (1843)  Page(s) 14.  
 
No. 3.  Rosa Indica Monthly

Book  (1836)  Page(s) Section 2, p. 25.  
 
Pallida. magnificent, good fragrance.
White, center pink, otherwise like Thea Carnea.

Book  (1834)  Page(s) 182.  
 
China Roses.
No. 1 . Rosa indica, common China or daily. From the last name an error has taken place, that it blooms every day. In one sense of the word it does. Plants that are young, and in good ground, will grow and flower constantly from the end of April until the buds are killed with frost; but they will never flower when not growing; the bloom being produced on the young wood. The flower is about three inches in diameter, of a dark blush or rose colour, petals large, and loose, between a semi-double and double, and perfectly hardy.

Magazine  (1832)  Page(s) 160.  
 
Jardin de Fromont....Extrait des prix courants pour l'année 1832 à 1833
Rosa indica (Bengal ordinaire), de 2 ans, repiqué, fort, propre à greffer, le 100...10 Francs

Magazine  (1832)  Page(s) 71.  
 
[From "Greffes de Rosiers sur tronçons de racines d'églantier". Lettre de M. Dupin, Membre de la Société d’ Agriculture du déparlement de l'Hérault, à M. le Directeur des Annales de l’ Institut horticole de Fromont.]

....Je me propose de continuer ces expériences de greffes de Rosiers sur tronçons de racines (d'Églantier ; je l'essaierai aussi sur les racines de certaines variétés cultivées , qui sont d’une’ vigueur remarquable , telles que le Bengale ordinaire , le B. élégant, le B. musqué à fleur simple, la Pourpre violette, etc.

Website/Catalog  (1826)  Page(s) 67.  
 
ROSA sinensis.
communis.

Book  (1824)  Page(s) 176-177.  
 
R. Indica.- R. des Indes. Somm. p. 38. Var. A indica vulgaris. Dans toutes les pépinières. Fleurs carnées; faussement nommé Bengale cramoisi. C'est le Bengale thé.

Book  (1824)  Page(s) 1255.  
 
[From the catalogue of Gebrüder Baumann in Bollweiler]
Rosa chinensis pallida fl. pleno. Double, pale china. 1-3 Francs.

Book  (1824)  Page(s) 41.  
 
ROSA...indica, pale China, China, 2 ft., pink

Book  (1820)  Page(s) 106-108.  
 

58. ROSA indica.
R. foliolis ellipticis acuminatis glabris crenato-serratis subtus glaucis, ovariis 40-50.
α vulgaris, fructu turbinato.
R. indica Lin ! sp. 705. Willd. sp. 2. 1079. Lawr. ros. t. 26. Ait! kew. ed. alt. 3. 266. Smith !in Rees in l. Redout. ros. 1. 51. t. 14. 2. 35. t. 15.
R. sinica Linn ! syst, veg. ed. 13. 398. Smith! in Rees in l.
R. semperflorens carnea Röss. ros. t. 19.
β odoratissima, fructu ovato, floribus odoratissimis.
R. odoratissima Sweet! hort. sub. lond.
R. indica fragrans Redout. l. c. 61. t. 19.
γ pumila, fruticulus, omni parte minor.
R. indica pumila Redout. ros. 1. 115. t. 42.
δ longifolia, foliis lanceolatis, ramis subinermibus.
R. longifolia Willd. sp. 2. 1067. Redout. ros. 2. 27. t. 12.
Hab. in China juxta Cantonem Sinarum, Staunton. (v. v. c. & s. sp. herb. Banks.)   

Branches stout, glaucous green, armed with brown, scattered, compressed, hooked, equal prickles. Leaves shining, without pubescence; stipules very narrow, subulate and glandular at the point; petioles rough with setae, and little short, hooked prickles; leaflets 3-5, even, elliptic, acuminate, nearly simply crenato-serrated, above dark green, glaucous beneath. Flowers very numerous, usually semi-double; bractea narrow, lanceolate, without pubescence, toothletted, glandular; peduncles long, rough ; tube of the calya oblong, naked; sepals deciduous, nearly simple, ovate, pointed, glandular on the outside; petals obcordate, concave; stamens 105-110; disk a thick flattened cone; ovaria 40-50; styles nearly naked, exserted, very slender, distinct. Fruit obovate, scarlet.

It is now, perhaps, too late to inquire what was really intended by Linnaeus for R. indica, since his specific character and description will agree with no species from China at present known; and the figure of Petiver which he quotes to this, in which he is followed by Willdenow, belongs to a widely different plant, very nearly allied to R. Banksiæ, and which I have called R. microcarpa. I have, however, examined his specimen, which I see no reason to doubt belonging to this species. The specimen which Sir James Smith considers to have been the foundation of R. sinica I have also been permitted to see, and I feel little hesitation in pronouncing it to be a monstrous state of the species before us. The stipulac are narrow, pointed and finely toothed at the edge; the prickles are straight, very slender and unequal, which may be reasonably expected on R. indica in so weak a state as this R. sinica evidently is. That name, therefore, becomes disengaged, and I have retained it for the plant which was distinguished by it in Hortus Kewensis.

The delightfully fragrant “Sweet-scented Chinese Rose” of the gardens is a variety, with ovate fruit and a dwarfer habit. It is right that cultivators should know that there are two sorts of this, of which the most common has a very inferior perfume to the other, which is propagated with more difficulty. 

The willow-leaved Chinese Rose, R. longifolia, is another variety, but it has little to recommend it to notice.

I can by no means agree with the editor of Redouté's Roses, in considering this a variety of R. semperflorens, from which it differs in many important characters, as will be seen under the following species.