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( 2784 ) 
CAMELLIA RETICULATA. CapTrain Rawes’s 
CAMELLIA. 
Se ie i a a a os 
Class and Order. 
MonaDELPHIA POLYANDRIA. 
( Nat. Ord —Camenuen. D.C. ) 
Generic Character, vide tab. 2740. 
The drawing of this splendid species of Cameniia, was 
made by Miss Curtis in the spring of 1827, from the plant 
imported by Captain Rawes, in the collection of Tuomas 
Carey Patmer, Esq. at Bromley, Kent. Not having my- 
self had the opportunity of seeing the plant, I adopt Mr. 
DLEY’s Suggestion, of its being a new species, “ distin- 
wished from C. japonica by its rigid, flat, strongly reticu- 
ated leaves, and also by its silky ovarium. The flowers 
have also a different aspect; the petals are much undulated, 
and irregularly and loosely arranged, with none of the com- 
pactness and re ity for which the C. japonica is so much 
With the view to render our history of the Cametuias 
as complete as possible, we have accompanied the figure 
of this splendid species with the fruit and seeds. We 
must, however, premise, that the representations 1 and 2 
(drawn by Miss C. Curtis), are from the Waratah Camellia, 
(¢. 1654.) and the seeds are from the single red (¢, 42.). a0 
ruit 
