Book  (1819)  Page(s) fasc. 29, Tab 80.  Includes photo(s).
 
Rosa Indica purpurea.
Purple Indian Rose.

Specific Character. Rose with numerous purple flowers; seed-buds, leaves and stems the same as in the Variegated Indica.

The purple variety is said to have been first imported from China about the year 1810, to the gardens of Lord Milford, under the appellation of the Blue Rose; and as such many of them were sold at a guinea each, although the plant had not then flowered: such is the fascinating force of novelty, which even in embryo has the power to charm. This rose of expectation, when its blooms unfolded, no heavenly blue disclosed, but a red purple, which as it faded off became much paler, less brilliant, but of a bluer or colder purple, which gives to the fresh opened blossoms a very different appearance contrasted with those retiring; and although the blue's celestial ting is wanting, it is nevertheless a graceful and very abundant flowering Rose. Our figure was made from plants in the nursery of Messrs. Colville. The Variegated Indica was taken from the only plants we have seen of it, at the Cape Nursery of Mr. Middlemist, in 1812.

Website/Catalog  (1817)  Page(s) 33.  
 
Rosa.
bengal pourpre.

Book  (1815)  Page(s) Tab. 111.  Includes photo(s).
 
Rosa semperflorens purpurea

Website/Catalog  (1810)  Page(s) 15.  
 
Collection de rosiers à fleurs doubles.
Rosa semperflorens, purpurea...Rosier du Bengale, pourpre.

Website/Catalog  (1808)  Page(s) 56.  
 
105 Rose semperflorens palida purpurea, 6 ggr [Gute Groschen]