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sericeous, splitting a quarter of its length into 3-4 styles. Ovary 3-ceUed, each cell 

 2-ovuled. Fruit the size of a small apple, retaining at base the persistent sepals, and like 

 them very sericeous. Seeds several, pretty large ; the outer coating chestnut-coloured. 

 Flowers in May, and fruits in November. It is a very handsome species, quite distinct 

 from C. oleifera (Abel), of which I have seen specimens, through the kindness of Mr. 

 Bennett. The petals of dried specimens turn dark yellow. I have endeavoured to intro- 

 duce this species. 



2. Camellia Japonica, Linn. 



Of this but two trees are at present known in Hong Kong, growing wild, and discovered 

 by Lieut.-Colonel Eyre, of the Royal Artillery. It is a moderate-sized smooth tree, 

 loaded in October with single pink flowers. The fruit is smooth and much smaller than 

 in the last species, rather above an inch in diameter. The petals, about 7, adhere at 

 base into a ring, and are soon detached and fall off. The sepals are slightly sericeous, 

 and the leaves more elongate than in most of the cultivated plants. 



3. Camellia salicifolia ; arbuscula, ramulis pubescentibus flexuosis, foliis subsessilibus 



elongato-ovatis acuminatis serratis pubescentibus, floribus parvulis albis, sepalis 

 acuminatis pubescentibus, capsulis glabris parvis rostratis 1 — 3- sgepius mono- 

 spermis. 

 Hab. in insula Hong Kong, Sinarum, in sylvis. 



Sepals 5-7, subulate, hairy exteriorly, imbricated and subtended by imbricated, hairy 

 bracteoles. Petals 5 ; white, oblong-ovate to obovate, gamopetalous at base, sericeous 

 exteriorly. Stamina very numerous, in four rows ; outer rows united into a tube ; two 

 inner with nearly free filaments. Style hairy, simple, elongate. Stigmas 1-3, filiform. 

 Ovary hairy, 2-3-celled, each with a double row of 3 anatropous ovules. Capsule roundish- 

 rostrate, usually by abortion 1-seeded; rarely 3-celled, 3-seeded. Leaves nearly sessile, 

 softly hairy. Flowers nearly sessile, about an inch in diameter. Fruit from 5-7 lines in 

 diameter. Flowers pendulous, scentless, white. It is a rather pretty undertree with 

 long, weeping, rather brittle branches ; the young leaves are reddish. Seed usually sub- 

 globose, with large, almost conferruminate, plano-convex cotyledons and a minute radicle. 

 As species, it and the next are near to C. caudata, Wall. Mr. Braine has lately intro- 

 duced a plant of it into the Kew Gardens. It flowers throughout autumn (October to 

 January), and the fruit succeeds the flowers very rapidly. Tricondyle pulchripes, White, 

 frequents this tree. 



4. Camellia assimilis ; frutex, ramulis glabris, foliis subsessilibus lanceolatis acuminatis 



serratis glabris, floribus parvulis pendulis albis, sepalis sericeis obtusis, capsulis 

 glabris parvis rostratis. 

 Hab. in insula Hong Kong, Sinarum, in Monte Victoria et Monte Gough. 



I have seen this species growing almost alongside of the last, and the general resem- 

 blance is very striking. Its smooth habit, shorter and wider leaves, and more especially 

 the difference of shape in the sepals, form the distinction. Its form is more stunted, and 



