50 MONOGRAPHY OF THE GENUS CAMELLIA. 



often there are seen on the same plant, red, rose, and white. — Magnificent. 



23. C. Rolissoni. — Leaves an inch and a half wide, and two and a half 

 long, roundish oval, a little pointed, horizontal, nerves conspicuous, finely 

 dentated, of an obscure green j bud obtuse, scales whitish j flower of a 

 medium size, double, of a milk white, and handsome formj exterior petals 

 disposed in several rows, crenated at the summit j those of the circumference 

 are fringed, all are imbricate, and turned back regularly upon the calyx, 

 as in the C. Excelsa. The centre is composed of stamens which are nearly 

 all petaloid, with a yellowish heart. 



*24. C. Sassanqua. — A shrub with open branches, which are reddish 

 and villous when young j leaves one inch broad and three long, alternate, 

 oval, obtusely dentated, emarginate, thick, and of a dull green j flower 

 small, single, composed of five petals, of a beautiful white, sessile, terminal. 

 25. C. Splendidissima Berl. — A shrub about three feet high, vigorous, 

 pyramidal j leaves three and a half inches broad, and four and a half long, 

 oval, rounded, almost cordiform; nerves numerous and apparent, slightly 

 dentated, glossy and of a deep green j buds large, oval, obtuse, of the form 

 of the old double white camellia, scales greenish} flower four inches in 

 diameter, full, white } corolla very near the form of C. Colviliij petals of 

 the periphery, broad, numerous, reflexed, undulate, irregular, a little lacin- 

 nated on the border, and of a pure white } those of the interior are more 

 erect, elongate, numerous, very compact, curled, as well as those of the 

 circumference, and of a less brilliant white. No apparent sexual organs. 

 This beautiful variety, was obtained by us from the seed. Four journals, the 

 Constitution^ the Times, the Debates, and the Journal of Paris, alluded, in 

 March 1 835, to the beauty of its flowers. See the description which has been 

 given of it, in the Annals of the Horticultural Society of Paris. C. Sfoj- 

 jortiana. See the first gamut, striped bicolors, first division. 



26. Veymaria. — Leaves small, like those of Pomponia plena j bud rather 

 large, scales green ; flower three and a half inches in diameter, white semi- 

 double, form, that of the Pomponia semi-flena; there is a little of a rose 

 tint in the ground color. 



27. C. Wilbanksiana, or heptangularis. — Leaves one inch and eight lines 

 broad, and three long, oval, lanceolate, a little acuminated, reflexed, slightly 

 dentated, some of them elliptical, smooth, of a yellowish green, glossy j bud 



