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the diagnoses often do not mention the essential characteristics; the fruits 

 and seeds liave in niany species never been described nor collected. 



Détermination table for Camellia-species. 



1. Stamens ^/g united, densely hirsute at the inner side .... 2. 

 Stamens glabrous 4. 



2. (Sectio Eriandria. ) Sepals lanceoiate, acute *C. salicifolia. 



Sepals ovate, obtuse . . , 3. 



3. Branches and leaves glabrous *C. caudata. 



Young shoots and under side of leaves hairy. . . . C. assimilis^). 

 Closely resembling preceding species, only finer and thinner in 

 appearance C. gracilis '). 



4. Outer stamens completely united 5. 



Stamens '/a or less united 6 



5. (Sectio Calpandria.) Flowers small, white. Young shoots usually 



pubescent. Seeds angulate *C. lanceolata. 



(Inclusive quiscosaiira with a glabrous style, connata.^ with round 

 seeds, minahassae and montana.) 



6. Calyx inibricate, deciduous. Flower sessile 7., 



Calyx valvate, permanent. Flower more or lessstalked 19. 



7. (Sectio EuCAMBLLiA.) Sepals acute, hairy. Mid rib and shoots covered 



with long hairs *C. Edithae. 



Sepals obovate. glabrous or sericeous 8. 



8. Ovary and style glabrous *C. japonica^). 



Ovary hirsute; otherwise resembling very much C. japonica (large 



coriaceous glabrous leaves, thick buds, large flowers) ~) . . 9. 

 Ovary hirsute. Habit more or less différent froni C. japonica . . 10. 



* Easily recognizable species. 



') In my opinion C. assimilis and C. f^racilis may be Chinese pubescent forms of 

 C. caudata. It is, in fact, remarkable tiiat C. caudata, otherwise only i<nown from 

 India, where it is growing very abundantly, occnrs in Hong-i<ong, wliere C. assimilis 

 is the prédominant form. The latter is seldom (f. i. in Yun-nan) found densely 

 pubescent; as to C. gracilis, it is practicaliy identical with C. cowrfa/a, and hesitatingly 

 made a new species by Hemsley. 



2) 1 think Hayata'S new species hozanensis and Na/ra// are only varieties of C. yt/po^/cfl. 

 The former is characterized by him as foliows: „Near Thea japonica ; but differs 

 „from it by the funnel-shaped corolia and by the obtuse buds"; the latter thus: 

 ,,Near Thca japonica, but differs from it by the leaves which are, in this new species, 

 „generaiiy broader, more shortiy cuspidate and more minuteiy serrulate than those 

 „of the Japanese species. In dried spécimens, the costae of the Formosan plant are 

 ,,generaliy not elevated, but tliose of the Japanese are prominently elevated." 

 Judging after this description, I présume thèse species cannot he upheld as such, 

 in view of the exceedingly numerous horticuitural varieties of C. japonica, which 

 shouid be carefully studied and classified before any attempt to detach some divergent 

 forms from the type species shouid be made. Under thèse ci'rcumstances I cannot, 

 however, definitely deny the necessity of séparation either. 



