414 Mtices of new and beautiful Plants 



eight to twenty feet high; with white and purple flowers; appearing in the summer; in- 

 creased by layers and by seeds; cultivated in light loamy soil ; a native of Japan. Pax. 

 Mag. Bot., Vol. IV, p. 147. 



This is the species referred to in our notice of the C. caeru- 

 lea, p, 297, as the one in the possession of Messrs. Lowe & Co., 

 called bicolor or Sieboldi; it is a very showy species. The 

 flowers are quite large, in expansion four inches, the sepals, or 

 petals, as they are generally termed, of a greenish-white, and 

 the centre filled with numerous purple stamens, which give them 

 a resemblance to the anemone. The plant grows freely, and the 

 flowers are produced in abundance. The leaves are ternate, 

 lobed and dark green, forming a fine back-ground, upon which 

 the greenish-white flowers present a striking appearance. It will 

 be a fine addition to this extensive genus, and add another to the 

 rather limited number of elegant green-house climbers. 



The drawing was made from a specimen obtained from a plant 

 which flowered in the nursery of Messrs. Whitley & Osbornes, 

 Fulham, in June. It grows in light loamy soil, and is increased 

 by layers or seeds. (Pax. Mag. Bot., Aug.) 



Ternsiromiaceae. 



CAME'LL/jJ 

 japonica var. tricolor. 



We noticed this variety at p. 369, and there stated that we did 

 not know its origm, but supposed it to have been imported from 

 China. We have since seen it stated in the Horticultural Jour- 

 nal that it was introduced, together with the C. j. var. Doncke- 

 laeri and Sieboldi, from Japan, by Dr. Siebold. 



Camelh'a japonica var. Donckelaeri (noticed in our II, p. 293,) 

 is figured in the Horticultural Journal for March, from which 

 we extract the following: — " The figure of this beautiful variety 

 of the camellia was taken from the plant from which Miss Drake 

 took the drawing for Dr. Lindley, and we desire nothing better 

 than a chance of coming side by side with any existing work in 

 the representation of a subject. Donckelaeri is a variety hither- 

 to, in this country, only semi-double, but we have little doubt it 

 will, when well grown, be as full as the double stripe. The 

 specimen from which our figure was taken was in the possession 

 of Mr. Lowe of the Clapton nursery, and was imported by him, 

 with a limited stock of small plants; but, from the figures which 

 have appeared in Smith's Florist Magazine, and in the Botani- 

 cal Register, no one will be able to recognise it; there can, how- 

 ever, be no doubt of its great superiority as a variety, not less 

 for its brilliant and beautiful color than from the singular mottling, 

 which, though varied in the flowers, always exhibits peculiar ab- 

 rupt terminations of color, and the clearness of the white. Our 

 drawing is by Mr. Wakeling, who took it on the same day that 

 it was figured by Miss Drake." 



Both drawings are beautiful, though that in the Horticultural 



