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which is expressed from its seeds, which is much used in 

 the domestic cookery of the country; flower single white. 



C. Sesdngua, Lady Banks's. The foliage of this species 

 is very small, and paler, and the green not so fine as any 

 of the others. It seeds freely, and is often used as the 

 female parent in producing new varieties ; flowers small, 

 white, and single, with many anthers. There are a semi- 

 double and double variety of it of the same colour. 



C. sesdnqua rosea, or malliflora of some, double pink, 

 small flowers, but in very great profusion ; the plant is of a 

 free, upright growth. The flowers are of about four weeks' 

 duration : it is very much esteemed. 



C. kissii. Small single white : the only species that is 

 a native of Nepaul. 



C, reticuldta was brought from China by Capt. Rawes 

 in 1823. The foliage is very characteristic, being stiff' and 

 flat, distinctly serrated, nerves deeply sunken ; flowers 

 bright rose, of a loose form, and above six inches in diame- 

 ter, semi-double. From present appearance, it will never 

 be so plenty as many of the others, being tardy of propa- 

 gation ; only a few eyes on the extremity of each shoot 

 make young wood, and, if these are cut off, the plant does 

 not seem to push afresh. Magnificent. 



C. japonica, small, single, red. It is supposed that this 

 is the type of all the garden cultivated varieties of the 

 Camellia, though some are inclined to think that it is a 

 variegated or striped species, not yet introduced, that has 

 been the origin of so many beautiful Chinese sorts. 



The following are supposed to be its varieties : 



C. aitonia. This variety is a beautiful specimen of a. 

 single flower, affording a development of the organ of fruc- 

 tification ; the petals are delicately penciled, and the 

 anthers very bold, colour pink, and the flower very large; 

 grows freely, and, in our opinion, is surpassed by none of 

 the single sorts for raising fine new varieties, if impreg- 

 nated with the pollen from double flowers. Good. 



C. alba-plena, common double white, is admired by the 

 most casual observer, and is generally considered a very 

 superior flower, from the purity of its whiteness and the 

 abundance of its large flowers, which are closely and regu- 

 larly set with round petals. The foliage is large, and the 

 plant grows freely ; we have seen one shoot grow two feet 



