THE 
JOURNAL OF BOTANY, 
BRITISH AND FOREIGN. 
ON CAMELLIA JAPONICA, VAR. VARIEGATA, A NEW 
VARIEGATED CAMELLIA. 
By Bertuotp Seemann, Pu.D., F.L.S. 
(PLATE XLIL) 
When publishing my monograph of the genera Camellia and Thea 
(Transactions of the Linnean Society, vol. xxii. p. 337), I stated 
that though we had thousands of representations of the various 
varieties of Camellia Japonica, we did not possess a single plate ex- 
hibiting the normal state of it, even Siebold and Zuccarini, in their 
*Flora Japonica, having figured a form with semi-double flowers. 
Mr. William Bull’s establishment for the introduction of new and 
rare plants, has lately supplied me with what I have wished to see 
for years,—a Camellia Japonica with normal flowers,—and I have 
hastened to give a plate of it. In a hortieultural point of view the 
plant is remarkable for its pretty variegated leaves, which, at a time 
when such foliage is fashionable, is sure to make it a great favourite. 
The plant was introduced from China by Mr. Robert Fortune, and 
is now flowering in Mr. Bull’s nursery. It somewhat differs in the 
shape of the foliage from the normal type of C. Japonica, and if it 
was not for its glabrous, 3-celled ovary, might be suspected of being 
a new species. 
Camellia Japonica, Linn., var. variegata, Seem. (Tab. XLII. dy foliis 
ellipticis v. subovato-ellipticis acuminatis basi acutis, al tis, 
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