Camellia and its varieties. 99 



61. Camellia j. var. marmoruta. Fr. Cat. 



This is a double flower, but not quite full, of a crimson color, 

 spotted with white. 



62. Camellia j. var. rubricaulis. Fr. ^ Eng. Cat. 



The flower of this variety is of medium size, the color a dark 

 rose, spotted and marbled with white. The petals are few, but 

 very well arranged, after the manner of C. j. var. coccinea; a 

 neat, pretty flower. There is a variety in the trade called C. j. 

 var. rubricaulis variegata, which is tlie same as the present subject. 



63. Camellia j. var. Sweetidna. Sioeet''s Brit. Fl. Gard. 



Siceet^s painted-Jloivered Camellia. 

 Raised at the Colvill nursery, from pompone and double-strip- 

 ed. It is described by Mr. Sweet as a "flower bearing a strong 

 resemblance to a beautiful variegated rose, generally very double, 

 more spreading than many varieties, and elegantly marked and 

 variegated with white, blush and a deep rosy red." 



64. Camellia j. var. Svveetii, or Sweetidna. Fr. Cat. 

 This is a very different flower from the English camellia 



Sweetid?ia, just described, and not less beautiful. The color is 

 dark crimson; petals very numerous, regularly laid over each 

 other, from the circumference to the centre, notched at the apex, 

 and beautifully spotted with clear white. 



65. Camellia j. var. gloria mundi. Fr. Cat. 



Glory- of -the- world Camellia. 

 A good double well-formed camellia; color a fine crimson, 

 spotted with white, much like Chandleri and rubricaulis. 



66. Camellia j. var. alba variegata nova. Fr. Cat. 



This flower is single, of medium size, of a pure white color, 

 singularly splashed and striped with dark rose. The petals are 

 very prettily cupped, and retain their form until the flower drops. 

 It is truly a lovely variety. 



67. Camellia j. var. Gilesii. Cliand. S^ Booth^s III. 



Syn: J^ancy Dawson of French Catalogues. 

 A new English seedling of great merit. The flower is de- 

 scribed as being quite large, from four to five inches in diameter, 

 of a dark scarlet color, spotted and striped with white, and usu- 

 ally having as much of the white as red. 



68. Camellia j. var. comete. Fr. Cat. 



This is a new French variety of the single white. It has one 

 row of exterior petals: the stamens are not in a compact col- 

 umn, as is usual in single flowers, but are diverging from the pis- 

 til, and radiating outward to the circumference, representing 

 more the figure of a star than a comet. 



