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CAMELLIA* japonica punctata. 
Gray's Invincible Camellia. 
MONADELPHIA MONOGY NIA. 
Nat. ord. TERNSTRÖMIACER. 
CAMELLIA. — Supra, vol. 1. fol. 22. 
Camellia japonica. Vide supra, vol. 1. fol. 22. sd: 5 i 
V. Petalis subcarneis rubro maculatis punctatisque, interioribus contortis, 
staminibus interjectis. 
* The variety of Camellia japonica here represented 
was raised in 1824 by Mr. George Press, Gardener to 
Edward Gray, Esq., F.H.S., Harringay House, Hornsey, 
from seed of the semidouble red, impregnated with the 
pollen of the single white; to the latter of which it has 
considerable resemblance both in its growth and habit. 
“The leaves are thick, smooth, and of a dark shining 
green colour, usually about 32 inches long, and 2 inches 
broad, convex, and nearly oval, with moderately large ser- 
ratures, and a sharp recurved point. They are seldom 
undulated like the leaves of the single white, but have 
similar prominent veins, and a strong, pale green midrib. 
Petiole about ¿ths of an inch long, a little flattened above, 
otherwise quite round, and of the same colour as the 
midrib and veins. 
« Flower-buds large, roundish oval, covered with 7 or 
8 roundish concave, densely pubescent, yellowish green 
scales, slightly tinged with pale red at their edges. The 
Flowers when fully expanded vary from 3 to 4 inches in 
* This genus is named in commemoration of the services rendered to the 
Botany of his time by Father Kamel, a Moravian Jesuit, and traveller in 
Asia. He flourished at the end of the seventeenth century. 
