CAMELLIA. | 553 
Although, a$ I have said, the Assam indigenous plants 
have a very different appearance from those Chusan, to which 
however they approach nearer than to the others, there are 
perhaps sufficient gradations to explain away several of the 
differences. But whether this. will apply to the uniformly 
large, acuminated, and not unfrequently acute leaves of the 
Assam plant, to its smooth, or nearly smooth ovarium, is 
` . more than I would venture to pronounce; and I would be 
equally reserved, regarding the pubescence of the calyx, the 
undilated ends of the branches of the style, and the con- 
Sequent punctiform line of spathulate stigmatic surfaces, 
the unequal auriculation of the cotyledons, and the i inversion 
Er. in size of the plumule and radicle. 
„There can be no doubt that if specimens of each of dis 
. above, (excepting perhaps the Chinese plants cultivated in 
. Assam, and the Pringitt plants, which are much alike), 
Were to find their way into an Herbarium, and were not 
known to belong to a genus that has been cultivated from 
time immemorial, they would be admitted to be distinct by 
es majority of Botanists. 
i : CAMELLIA. 
3 The Genus is divisible into two Sections. 
PD "Tug. Calyce minus imbricato. Gemmis laxe et pauce 
Squamatis, 
- CaMELLIA. Calyce imbricato in petalis gum abiens. 
C Gemmis ; imbricatis. 
„l. Camellia (Thea) Bohea, Pl. DCI. Fig. I. 
A^ , Flores in axillis solitarii, pedicellis petiolis duplo fere 
erar ibus, deorsum; curvatis mcr Ei inter medium 
l. . imbricatus sub Jipii quarum 2i internis intimoque 
eris, 3-4 plo eae valde concava. j 
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