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Camellia Japonica. Rose Camellia, 
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C/j/jr d nd Order. 
MONADELPHIA POLYANDRIA, 
Generic Ooaraftcr. 
Calyx imbricatus, polyphyllus : foliolis interioribus majoribus. 
Specific Char after and Synonyms . 
CAMELLIA japonica foliis acute ferratis acuminatis. Lin. 
Syfi. Vegetab. eJ. J4. p, 632. E hunberg FI. 
japon. /. 273. 
TSUBAKI Kempfcr Am<en. 850. t. 851. 
ROSA chinenfis. Ed. av. 2. p. 67. t. 67. 
THE A chinenfis pimentac jamaicenfis folio, flore rofeo. 
Pet. Gaz. t. 33. fig. 4. 
This mod beautiful tree, though long fince figured and 
deferibed, as may be feen by the above fynonyms, was a 
Granger to our gardens in the time of Miller, or at lead it 
is not noticed in the lad edition of his Dictionary. 
It is a native both of China and Japan. 
Thunberg, in his Flora Japonica^ deferibes it as growing 
every where in the groves and gardens of Japan, where it 
becomes a prodigioufly large and tall tree, highly edeemed by 
the natives for the elegance of its large and very variable 
hloflbms, and its evergreen leaves; it is there found with 
fingle and double flowers, which alfo are white, red, and 
purple, and produced from April to OCtobcr. 
Reprefentations 
