Book  (1855)  Page(s) Appendix, p. xxii.  
 
The Indian dog-rose, R. arvensis, R. involucrata of Roxburgh, Gul bé furman, is found to grow wild in some parts of Nepal and Bengal, as well as in the province of Buhar, flowering in February, the blossoms large, white, and very fragrant; its cultivation extending is improving the blossoms, particularly in causing the petals to be multiplied.

Book  (1850)  Page(s) Vol. II, p. 171.  
 
Rosa canina, involucrata (red) white. Indian dog rose, [blooms] march, april, october. 7 ft

Book  (1850)  Page(s) Vol. II, p. 23.  
 
The Indian dog-rose, R. arvensis, R. involucrata of Roxburgh, Gul bé furman, is found to grow wild in some parts of Nepal and Bengal, as well as in the province of Buhar, flowering in February, the blossoms large, white, and very fragrant; its cultivation extending is improving the blossom, particularly in causing the petals to be multiplied.

Book  (1848)  Page(s) Vol. I, p. 188.  
 
Rose, wild,....gul bé furman,....nusreen. Rosa arvensis.

Magazine  (1842)  Page(s) 255.  
 
Observations upon the Effects produced on Plants by the Frost which occurred in England in the Winter of 1837-8. By John Lindley, Ph. D. F. R. S. &c. &c. Vice Secretary.
Read December 4, 1838.

It was, however very different in Cornwall and South Wales ; at Carclew, Rosa involucrata was the only Rose that suffered, while Rosa microphylla close beside it was uninjured.

Book  (1832)  Page(s) Vol. 2, p. 513.  
 
R. involucrata. R.
Subscandent, armed with strong stipulary, straight prickles. Flowers in subsessile fascicles. Bractes in form of a four or five leaved laciniate, inferior calyx.
A native of Nepal and Bengal; it flowers about the beginning of the warm weather in February ; its seed ripens in the rains. Stem and branches stout and ligneous, the latter often very long, subscandent, armed with strong, straight, stipulary prickles ; young shoots villous. Leaves pinnate ; common petiole villous, slightly armed, stem-clasping, base pinnatifid. Leaflets opposite, from five to eleven, oblong, serrate, villous underneath; the largest about an inch long, and half an inch broad. Flowers terminal, from one to many together, subsessile, large, pure white, sweetly fragrant. Bractes four or five, surrounding the base of the germ, singly they are lanceolate, acuminate, with the lower margins deeply laciniate, and villous. Calyx villous ; divisions entire. Corol single. Petals obcordate. Germ globular, villous.

Website/Catalog  (1827)  Page(s) 29.  
 
China Roses.
ROSA involucrata

Website/Catalog  (1826)  Page(s) 59, 65.  
 
p. 59: ROSA clynophylla.

p. 65: ROSA involucrata.

Magazine  (1823)  Page(s) tab 739.  Includes photo(s).
 
Rosa involucrata. Hamilton's Rose....
R. involucrata foliolis lanceolato-ellipticis infra tomentosis, bracteis contiguis pectinatis. Lindl. I. c. [monogr.] 8. n. 5.
Rosa involucrata. Roxb.fl. ind. ined.
Rosa palustris. Buchanan MSS.
[citation from "Rosarum Monographia" of Lindley] "This section, which probably extends across the continent of Asia, from Nepal to China, is readily distinguished from the preceding by the thick wooliness of its fruit; a peculiarity entirely confined to itself. Its leaves are very dense, usually shining, and the prickles are placed under the stipulse in pairs: the species which compose it may be considered to have their organs of fructification in the highest state of developement in the genus. The stamens vary from 350 to 400, and the pistilla from 140 to 190; the former being twice and the latter three times as numerous as in the last section (Feroces), which perhaps holds the next rank in the scale of developement."
"Branches pale brown, flexuose, covered with very soft down; prickles generally naked, with a long base, bright brown, pointing upwards, placed by pairs under the stipulae, which are nearly distinct, downy, and divided at the margin into several capillary compound segments, here and there fringed with glands; on vigorous rootshoots they are united half way, and then the part which is disengaged frequently extends into a small pinnate leaf; petioles slender, downy, with a few small prickles; leaflets 3-9, elliptic, lanceolate, obtuse, bluntly serrate, dull green, naked above, downy (rarely naked) and paler beneath. Flowers white, subsolitary, surrounded by three or four approximate leaves; bracteae pectinate, woolly, as are the short peduncle, globose tube of the calyx, and spreading entire sepals (calycine leaflets); petals emarginate, longer than the last; disk long, large, and thickened; styles villous, slightly protruded."
"For an opportunity of examining spontaneous specimens of this new species I am indebted to Mr. Lambert: they were collected in Nepal by Dr. Buchanan (Hamilton), and, from the ticket attached to them, probably in marshy situations. Of this however no mention is made by Dr. Roxburgh, by whom, in his manuscript Flora Indica, a detailed account of the species is given with the name here adopted. It has recently been imported from the East Indies by Mr. Whitley, of Fulham, in whose collection I have seen it growing vigorously, and it proves a highly desirable addition to our gardens. It cannot possibly be confounded except with R. bracteata and microphylla, from both which its dull narrow leaves, hoary beneath, and long slender shoots, distinguish it sufficiently; besides, the bractese are a little distance from the flowers. Native of Nepal, Bengal, and China." Lindley, I. c. 8-9.
Drawn at Mr. Colvill's, King's Road, Chelsea.

Book  (1820)  Page(s) 8.  
 
R. involucrata Roxb.
Branches pales brown...covered with very soft down; prickles...pointing upwards, placed in pairs under the stipulae, which are nearly distinct, downy, and divided at the margin in several capillary compound segments, here and there fringed with glands....; leaflets 3-9,...dull green, naked above, downy (rarely naked) and paler benearth. Flowers white....

For an opportunity of examining spontaneous specimens of this new species I am indebted to Mr. Lambert; they were collected in Nepal by Dr. Buchanan...probably in marshy situations....It has recently been imported from the East Indes by Messrs Whitley and Co. of Fulham, in whose fine collection I have seen it growing vigorously, and it proves an highly desirable addition to our gardens....