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pressed at the summit, and almost round j scales green and shining j flower 

 full, very large, four and a half inches in diameter, of a dazzling snow 

 white J exterior petals large, foliaceous revolute, sometimes spotted with 

 red at the claws, and irregularly arranged j those of the interior rows, long, 

 erect, cut in a ligulate manner, united and compressed into a large flattened 

 ball, in the middle of which are confounded a few sterile and almost invisible 

 stamens. — Suferb. 



6. Camellia, Anemoruejlora, Warrata^ carnea. — Leaves one inch and 

 seven lines broad, and three inches three lines long, elongated-oval, a little 

 acute J form and color of the Wilbancksiana; bud small, scales green j flower 

 white, double, small, resembling much the little flower of the Pomponia, 

 improperly called carnation, for there is no tint of flesh color in this flower. 

 — Pretty. 



7. C. Candidisshna. — Leaves small, one inch and seven lines broad, and 

 three inches two lines long, elliptical, or elongated-oval, acute, horizontal, 

 flat, thick, glossy, very finely dentated, of a pale green, often spotted yel- 

 lowy a shrub of a pretty appearance, vigorous; bud oval, quite large before 

 bursting into bloom, scales light green j flower very large, four inches or 

 more in diameter, full, of a very pure white, petals regularly imbricated, 

 and resemble, very much, those of the double white Camellia, and are in 

 number from seventy to seventy-five, broad, a little crenated at the summit, 

 and diminish in width in proportion as they approach towards the centre. — 

 Magnificent. 



8. C. Compacta. — Leaves oval, acute, very finely dentated, resembling 

 those of the C. Pceonice jlora^ but of a duller green; surface dotted; bud ob- 

 long, small, scales green; flower small, fourteen lines in diameter, double, 

 of a very pure white; petals, of the three exterior rows, firm, perfect, well 

 imbricated; those of the centre numerous, small, erect, fasciculate, regular, 

 in the form of a lance head, and intermixed with some fertile stamens. — 

 Swperh. 



9. C. Curvatheoejolia. — Leaves like those of tea, three inches long, and 

 two broad, very acute, the summit singularly recurved, in the form of a 

 hook, nerves apparent, not numerous; flower white, regular, very double, 

 three and a half inches in diameter; petals disposed in a regular rosette, of 



*This name is often written Waratah, 



