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CAMELLIA* japonica punctata. 

 Gray's Invincible Camellia. 



MONADELPHIA MONOGYNIA. 



Nat. Ord. TERNSTROMIACEiE. 



CAMELLIA. — Suprd, vol. 1. fol. 22. 



Camellia japonica. Vide supnl, vol. \. fol. 22. 



V. Fetalis subcarneis rubro maculatis punctatisque, interioribus contortis, 

 staminibus interjectis. 



*' The variety of Camellia japonica here represented 

 was raised in 1824 by Mr. George Press, Gardener to 

 Edward Gray, Esq., F.H.S., Harringay House, Hornsey, 

 from seed of the semidouble red, impregnated with the 

 pollen of the single white ; to the latter of which it has 

 considerable resemblance both in its growth and habit. 



" The leaves are thick, smooth, and of a dark shining 

 green colour, usually about 3^ inches long, and 2 inches 

 broad, convex, and nearly oval, with moderately large ser- 

 ratures, and a sharp recurved point. They are seldom 

 undulated like the leaves of the single white, but have 

 similar prominent veins, and a strong, pale green midrib. 

 Petiole about fths of an inch long, a little flattened above, 

 otherwise quite round, and of the same colour as the 

 midrib and veins. 



" Flower- buds large, roundish oval, covered with 7 or 



8 roundish concave, densely pubescent, yellowish green 



scales, slightly tinged with pale red at their edges. The 



Jlowers when fully expanded vary from 3 to 4 inches in 



* This genus is named in commemoration of the services rendered to the 

 Botany of his time by Father Kamel, a Moravian Jesuit, and traveller in 

 Asia. He flourished at the end of the seventeenth century. 



