84 MONOGRAPHY OF THE GENUS CAMELLIA. 



petals in three rows, regularly placed, broad, imbricated, recurved and con- 

 spicuously displayed i those of the interior smaller, short, elevated, distorted, 

 rumpled and separated from the first, forming a depressed centre j blooms 

 with difficulty. — Suferb. 



212. C. Augusta rubra aurantlaca. — Leaves two inches wide and three 

 inches and more long, very much dentated, ovate-lanceolate, acuminated, 

 of a dull green i bud oblong, a little pointed; flower three and a half inches 

 in diameter, double, deep orange-red, No. 8; color, form and dimensions 

 like those of C. CoralUna. — Swperb. 



213. C. China (Tat.) or Rives-nova. — The branches, leaves and wood 

 resemble those of C. Rubra flena, of which it is a sub- variety j bud large, 

 oval, with apple-green scales j flower three inches in diameter, full, of a deep 

 orange-red. No. 7j petals elevated, numerous, compact, and arranged as in 

 C. Atrorubens, but of a more open globular form. — Superb. 



214. C. China large. — Leaves long, narrow, reflex, of a green, like that 

 of C. Rubra plena; flower about three inches in diameter, full, of the form 

 of the preceding and of a very similar color; petals of the exterior imbri- 

 cated, entire, rounded at the summit, the borders recurved; a few small 

 petals in the centre, unequal, slightly spotted with white. — Superb. 



215. C. Conspicua. — A shrub which has but little grace in its port ; leaves 

 two inches two lines wide and four long, lanceolate, oblong, somewhat acu- 

 minate, undulating, close, reflex, deeply dentated with long petioles of an 

 ordinary green; bud oblong, with green calycinal scales; flower three and a 

 half inches in diameter, regular, full, of a beautiful orange-red. No. 8, ap- 

 proaching carmine; petals of the circumference, arranged in several rows, 

 broad, handsomely imbricated and deeply crenated at the summit; some of 

 those in the centre, long, twisted, and reclining laterally on the ovary. — 

 Superb. 



216. C. Chandlerii. (Chand.) — A vigorous shrub; leaves thick, three 

 inches wide and four long, roundish-oval, horizontal, slightly acuminated, 

 the points bent laterally, very much dentated, veins apparent, of an obscure 

 green; bud large, pointed-oval, with scales part blackish and part yellowish; 

 flower four inches in diameter, rose-form, double, depressed, of a superb 

 deep orange-red. No. 8 ; petals of the circumference mucronated, imbricated, 

 rounded, regularly arranged, crenated, those of the centre smaller, erect, 



