98 Ghservaiions on the 



rows, heart-shape, the inner ones smaller, undulated and twisted, 

 forming a perfectly full double flower. 



56. Camellia j. var. Vandesm superba. Hort. 



Comptesse de Vandes superb Camellia. 



j.\n English seedling, raised, with another named Vandesia 

 carnea, (of which we shall speak hereafter,) in the Comptesse 

 de Vandes garden, Bayswater, near London, probably about 

 the year 1828 or 29. 



This is a robust, strong growing variety: the flowers are quite 

 large, from four to five inches in diameter, of a dark orange 

 scarlet color. The outer petals are in two or three rows, broad 

 and flatly expanded; the inner ones are smaller, unequal, of va- 

 rious shapes, intermixed with the stamina, and sometimes striped 

 with white; a remarkable showy variety. 



There is another of this name in commerce, which is not a 

 full double flower; the petals are k\v, in two or three rows, of 

 a bright scarlet, and showing the sexual organs. 



57. Camellia j. var. Colvillu. Sweeps Brit. Fl. Card. 



ColviWs Carnation-flowered. 



Raised at Mr. Colvill's Nursery, King's Road, Chelsea, Eng- 

 land, in 1824. " The petals are numerous, and of a lively blush 

 color, spotted with innumerable small red spots, and marked 

 with narrow stripes of a deeper red, approaching to crimson. 

 Some specimens are as perfect as a carnation, to which the flow- 

 ers have a great resemblance." [Chandler Sf Booth's III.) 



68. Camellia j. var. Buckliana. Camellias of Bohciller. 



This camellia has full double and w^ell formed flowers, of a 

 fine crimson color; the size three to three and a half inches in 

 diameter. The outer petals are round and slit at the apex, the 

 inner ones more or less irregular in shape; the whole frequently 

 marked and spotted with white, and sometimes an entire petal of 

 the same color, strongly resembling C. j. var. Chandleri. 



59. Camellia j. var. venosa. Fr. Cat. 



This flower is of the form of C j. var. Pomponia, the color a 

 deep blush, almost a pink. C. j. var. intermedia of American 

 catalogues is the same variety. 



60. Camellia j. var. Decandolleii. Fr. Cat. 



Syn: C. j. var. Candollekxia. Fr. Cat. 



A very pretty variety, and remains a long time in perfection 

 on the bush. The color is a very bright pink, the outer petals 

 large, the inner ones smaller, spathula form and twisted, the whole 

 with a faint watery line at the edge, approaching to white. 



