No. 537. 
CAMELLIA JAPONICA anemoniflora. 
Class. Order. 
MONADELPHIA POLYANDRIA. 
This magnificent variety was first intro- 
duced into the Royal Garden at Kew, about 
the year 1806. It is at once distinguishable 
from the other Camellias by the leaf stalk 
being much longer than any: the leaf also 
is more flat and pointed. The flowers, 
which like the other sorts open in the early 
part of spring, are of a most brilliant 
colour, and differently formed from any of 
the rest, consisting of five large outer 
petals, enclosing a very great number of 
small ones, which are so closely placed as 
to form a kind of hemisphere within them, 
bearing a strong resemblance to a large 
double Anemone. 
It flowers less freely than some of the 
