Website/Catalog  (1831)  Page(s) 63.  
 
Garden varieties from the two latter Species [Rosa indica and Rosa semperflorens]...
262 Bengalénsis rùbra Ro [Rose-pink]

Book  (1824)  Page(s) 41.  
 
ROSA ...Bengalensis rubra, red China, China, 3 ft., red

Book  (1823)  Page(s) Vol. I, p. 96.  
 
ROSA indica L.
R. germinibus (urceolis) ovatis pedunculisque glabris, caule subinermi, petiolis aculeatis. Linn.

Rosa indica. L. Sp. pl. 705. Willd. Sp. pl. II. 1079- Pers. Syn. II. 50. Dietrich. Lexic. d. Gärtn. u. Bot. VIII. 235. Ait.
h. k. ed. 2. III. 266. Miss. Lawr. Ros. t. 26. Andr. Bos. fasc. 36. et semiplena fasc. 4. Red. Ros. I. p.51. c. ic. Lindl. Ros. no. 58.

Book  (1820)  Page(s) Vol. II, fasc. 36, tab 71.  Includes photo(s).
 
ROSA Indica: Varietates.
Indian Rose Varieties.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER. Roses with roundish seed-buds, and peduncles slightly hispid; flowers of the one are red, and of the other of a pale flesh-colour: leaves smooth: petioles prickly: leaflets oblong, with sawed edges: stem green, smooth, with red thorns at the base.

Our drawing was made from plants in the Nursery of Mr. Knight, who first raised them in the year 1816 by importations received from a Bengal vessel, and called them Rosa Bengalensis rubra et alba. They are, however, only seminal varieties from the Common China Rose. Their period of inflorescence is mostly during the summer and autumnal months....