Tas. 5044. 
CAMELLIA ros#FLora. 
Rose-flowered Camellia. 
Nat. Ord. TERNSTREMIACE®.—MONADELPHIA POLYANDRIA. 
/ Gen. Char. (Vide supra, TaB. 2745.) 
CaMELura roseflora; ramis patentibus glabris, foliis ovatis acuminatis argute 
serratis subcoriaceis glabris, floribus axillaribus solitariis declinatis, pedun- 
culis brevissimis bracteatis, petalis obcordato-emarginatis, ovario styloque 
glaberrimis, stigmatibus elongatis. . 
This really handsome Camellia has been long cultivated in the: 
Royal Gardens of Kew under the incorrect name of “ Camellia 
euryoides, Lindl.,” a very peculiar species, first figured and de- 
scribed by Dr. Lindley: the history of which is, that it was “a 
stock on which the Chinese graft their varieties of Camellia Ja- 
ponica. he 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. The same having 
again befallen a Camellia brought home for the Society 1n 1824, 
by Mr. J. D. Parks, this plant again shot forth.” Strange to say, 
nothing further is known of the original C. ewryoides, and no 
systematic botanist, that I am aware of, has ever further noticed 
it. Our present plant, of which I know not the history, is quite 
different from this, more robust in habit, glabrous even In the 
young shoots, much larger in the flowers, which are pink-coloured. 
In some respects this approaches the C. assimilis, Champ., m 
Hook. Kew Gard. Misc. v. 3. p. 310, and Seemann, Bot. of 
H.M.S. Herald; but there the flowers are solitary and terminal, 
the stigma is small and obscurely three-lobed, the pistil very 
hairy, as are all the free filaments of the stamens. 
Descr. Our plant is a shrub, three feet high, with a much 
more lax and straggling habit than that of the common Camellia 
Japonica. Branches rather twiggy, patent, clothed with a brown, 
quite smooth bark. Leaves ovate, acuminate, shortly petiolate, 
APRIL Ist, 1858. 
