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CAMELLIA japonica. p. 

 The Pompone Camellia or Japan-rose. 



MONADELPHIA POL YASDRIA. 



CAMELLIA. Supra fol 12. 







C japonica, ramis glabris, flexuosis ; foliis elliptico-lanceolatis ; corolla 

 coriaceo-crassa, campanulata ; staminibus cylindraceo-coimiventibus ; 

 stigmatibus profunde discretis. 



Camellia japonica. Linn. sp. pi. 2. <)82. Thanh, jap. 272, J acq. coll. 



1. 117. Hort. Kew. 2. 460. ed. 2. 4. 23.5. MV//d. 5/). />/. 3. 84«. 

 (a) Single red Camellia. Curt. mag. 42. Car. diss. (i. 305. £. l(jO.^/*. 



1. J acq. ic. rar. 3. 553. Schneevoogt ic. 7. Duham. ed. N. 243. 



*. 71. 

 Thea chinensis, pimentae jamaic. fol. fl. ros. Pet. gaz. t. 33. f. 4. 



Tsubakki montauus s. sylvestris, fl. ros. simplici. KampJ. am. SjO. t, 



851. 



({}) Seiuidotible red Camellia. Andrews's reposit. 55<J. 



Kosa chinensis. Edwards's Birds. 2. t. 67- 



(y) Double red Camellia. Andrews's reposit. \[)[). 



(J) Middlemist's red Camellia. 



( f ) Myrtle-leaved red Camellia. Curl. niag. 1670. 



(?) Anemone-flowered, or WarrataTi Camellia. Curt. mag. 1664. 



(r,) Paeony-flowered Camellia. Andrews's reposit. 660. f. 1. 



(S) Double-striped Camellia. Andrews's reposit. 91. 



(i) Blush-Camellia. Andrews's reposit. 660. f. 2. 



(x) Buff-Camellia. 



(*) Double-white Camellia. Andrews's reposit. 25. 



(/a) Pompone Camellia. Supra. 



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Our variety (strictly a full one) having all the stamens 

 grown out into petals, and the corolla filled by them some- 

 thing in the same way as that of the Pompone variety of 

 the Provins-rose, which it approaches in colour, has been 



called by the gardeners the rom pone- Came Ilia; and is, we 



believe, the last imported. 



This fine evergreen shrub, in all its varieties, is the pro- 

 duce of China and Japan, where it forms a chief feature of 

 every garden and grove. It is said to attain the size of a 

 considerable tree, with a short trunk, dividing into nume- 

 rous spreading branches; leaves substantia], alternate, shortly 

 petioled, elliptically ovate, acuminate, serrate, shining; pe- 

 duncles I -flowered, terminal, generally solitary, sometimes 



