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(albis) obovatis emarginatis, staminibus glabris, ovario lanato, stylis subliberis, cap- 

 sula pubescente. (v. s. sp. et v. c.) 



Cainellia drupifera. Lour. Fl. Cochinchinen. p. 411 (1790) ; DeCand. Prodr. i. p. 529 (1824). 



Camellia Kissi, Wall, in Asiat. Res. xiii. p. 429 (1820) ; DeCand. Prodr. i. p. 529 (1824); Wall. Cat. 

 n. 977 (1828) ; Booth in Trans. Hort. Soc. vii. p. 525 (1830) ; Wall. Plant. Asiat. liar. iii. p. 36. 

 t. 256 (1832) ; Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 1815 (1832) ; Chois. in Mem. Soc. Geneve, xiv. i. p. 147 (1855) ; 

 Seem, in Bonplandia, vi. p. 278 (1858). 



Camellia Chamgota, Ham. MSS. (1814), teste Wall, in Asiat. Res. xiii. p. 429 (1820) ; Chois. in Mem. 

 Soc. Geneve, xiv. i. p. 147 (1855). 



Camellia Keinia, Hamilt. MSS. in Don Fl. Nepal, p. 224 (1825). 



Camellia} olei/era, Wall. Cat. n. 976 (1828). 



Camellia symplocifolia, Griff. Itin. Notes, p. 40, n. 652 (1848), et Notulse ad Plant. Asiat. iv. p. 560. 

 t. 604. f.2 (1854). 



Camellia [Thea] Mastersiana, GrifF. Notulae ad Plant. Asiat. iv. p. 559 (1854). 



Mesua bracteata, Sprengl. Syst. Veg. iii. p. 127 (1826). 



Nomina vernacula. In Cochinchina, teste Loureiro, " Cay Deau so ;" in Sylhetia, teste Hamilton, " Cham- 

 gota ;" in Nepalia, teste Wallich, " Kissi " sen " Kissi-Soah" et, teste Don, " Keng-na " vocatur. 



Geogr. Distr. Nepal {JFallichl E. Gardner \); Khasia Mountains, 3-5000 feet (Hooker and Thomson \, 

 Griffith \, Th. Lobb !) ; Bootan (E. Ind. Comp. Herb. !) ; Sikkim [Hooker and Thomson \] ; Assam 

 {Griffith\, JenkinsV); Cochinchina (teste Loureiro). Cultivated at the Botanic Garden, Ham- 

 burgh. 



This species was discovered by Loureiro in. Cochinchiaa, and has since been found in 

 different parts of the East Indies ; as it has an extensive geographical range, and grows 

 both in the high and low lands, it looks so different in different localities, that we can 

 scarcely be surprised if one and the same author has not recognized it again when he met 

 with it in a new place. Its nearest aUy is Camellia Sasanqica, Thunb., and, like that 

 species, it yields an oil. There are no original specimens of Camellia dnqnfera, Lour., 

 either in London or Paris, — a misfortune the more to be regretted, as, owing to the very 

 imperfect description given by Loureiro, this species has always been regarded as a doubt- 

 ful one. I endeavoured to show (Bonplandia, vii. p. 48) that the characters fm-nished 

 might be reconciled with those of Fyrenaria serrata, Blum. ; but I am now convinced 

 that the balance of evidence inclines more to Camellia Kissi, Wall. ; Fyrenaria seri'ata, 

 Blum., possessing no oleiferous properties, as I have since learned. That Camellia dru- 

 pifera. Lour., has nothing whatever to do with Mesua, to which it has been referred by 

 Sprengel, it is hardly necessary to demonstrate. 



6. C. LANCEOLATA ; arboresccus ; ramulis petiolisque puberidis, foUis lancoolatis vel ovato- 



lanceolatis acuminatis, subtus discoloribus, venis obscuris, floribus inodoris, petalis 

 (albis) obovatis obtusis, staminibus glabris, ovario stylisque connatis lanato-pubes- 

 centibus, capsula (v. s. sp ) 



Camellia lanceolata. Seem. MSS. 



Calpandria lanceolata, Blum. Bijdr. 178; Korth. Verhandel. p. 148. t. 31. 



Geogr. Distr. Borneo (teste Korth.) ; Sumatra (Marsden, in Herb. Bth. et Hook. !). 



7. C. QXTiNOSATJRA ; arborescens ; ramulis petiolisque , foliis oblongo-ovatis acutis, 



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