the stocks on which the Chinese graft their varieties 
of Camellia japonica. The grafted portion of a Camellia, 
brought from China for the Horticultural Society, by 
Potts, in 1822, having died, the stock sprang up, and 
produced this plant, which flowered for the first time in 
England, in March last, in the Chiswick garden, where our 
drawing was made. The same accident having befallen a 
Camellia brought home for the Society, in 1824, by Mr. 
J. D. Parks, this plant again shot forth. There can, 
therefore, be no doubt that this is one of the plants 
employed by the Chinese for propagating their curious 
varieties of Camellia japonica; and from this circumstance 
it is well deserving of attention. 
A greenhouse shrub, with weak, virgate, hairy branches. 
Leaves ovate-lanceolate, truncate, simply serrate, smooth 
and veinless above, pale and silky beneath, with hairy 
petioles. Flowers white, solitary, turbinate, as large as a 
hazel nut, on peduncles, which are imbricated with small 
silky scales. Calyx 5-leaved, with rounded, ovate-obtuse 
sepals. Petals 7-8, erect, obovate, entire, the exterior 
smaller. 
J. L. 
