Book  (2012)  Page(s) 63.  
 
Hybrides de Bengale. 1^ère Série.
R. Nubienne, Laf.

Book  (Jun 1992)  Page(s) 117.  
 
La Nubienne ('Gloire des Héllènes')
Hybrid China
Laffay, 1825
... Wine-lee... Deep velvety purple... Flowers slatey purple... color, bright carmine, and, at the second bloom, amaranth red marbled reddish lilac... slate-coloured purple, often dark...

Book  (1990)  Page(s) 70.  
 
Nubienne China. Laffay 1825... Deep red, almost burned red...

Book  (1936)  Page(s) 337.  
 
Hellènes, Gloire des (hybrid China) ? ? ; vivid carmine, 2nd bloom amaranth, mottles and lined reddish lilac, large, double, broad, growth 8/10.

Book  (1936)  Page(s) 518.  
 
Nubienne (hybrid china) Laffay 1825; amaranth; shaded slaty purple-violet, often darker, medium size, double, ovoid, growth 7/10, upright, 1 m. = Gloire des Hellènes. Sangerhausen

Book  (1899)  Page(s) 72.  
 
Gloire des Hellènes, Hybride de Bengale, amarante marbré

Book  (1882)  Page(s) 744.  
 
R. gloire des Hellènes, fleur renonculiforme, cramoisi tr....

Website/Catalog  (1880)  Page(s) 261.  
 
Rosiers Hybrides de Bengale (non remontants)
1316 Gloire des Hellènes.- Renonculiforme, cramoisi très-vif marbrée pensée et ligné amarante, très-belle.

Book  (1880)  Page(s) Annex, p. 55.  
 
hybrid perpetual, hybrid china, Gloire des Hellènes, la Nubienne, vivid carmine, later amaranth-red streaks and mottled pansy, full, flat cup form.

Magazine  (2 Dec 1858)  Page(s) 380.  
 
Besides the officinal semi-double Rosa officinalis, which is still cultivated in Provins and which is said to distinguish itself by a very agreeable fragrance, there are 3 other main groups [of Rosa gallica]:
a) Seraglio or Sultan Roses (Rosa Maheka)....[see]
b) Velvet Roses (Rosa holosericea), also dark red, often tending to violet and with a velvety sheen. The most beautiful are: Belle Africaine, Brillante d'Enghien, Friedrich Wilhelm IV., La Nubienne (Gloire des Hellènes), Le Negre, Tombeau de Napoléon, Triomphe de Velours, Velours superbe and violet.
c) Bishop roses....[see]