MELLIA JAPONICA. Var. Flore albo pl 
Double white Camellia. 
— -« CLEASS XVI ORDER’ Y. 
= ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. 
Cars aaa Spee foliolis interi- | Emratement tiled, of many leaves: - inner 
oribus majori leaves the largeft. 
SPECIFIC. CHARACTER OP FAR. 
forbs a plenis albidis. || Camellia with large double white flowers. 
Hit may be confidered by fome, as deviating from the botanical rule we prefcribed to ourfelves, 
t of this work, not to figure any flower, but what could be fyftematically nee 
‘&e. having loft thofe conftituent charaéters neceffary to the Sexual Syft né 
moft delightful plant in bloom laft year, the temptation was too powerful to vt 
figure of i it in the Botanift’s Repofitory. This fine variety of the Camellia, was firft im 
about the year 1793, by Captain Connor of the Carnatic Eaft-indiaman, fo 
the late I. Slater, Efq. a gentleman of moft indefatigable fpirit, for the introduétion of new 
this kingdom; indeed, it is to him we owe moft of the plants received from hina W 
few years; he having procured a catalogue to be printed of all the deferibed Chinefe plants 
th the defcriptions tranflated, and by various hands tranfmitted it to that count 
nts in this, kingdom, of the double white Camellia, are now in the co! le€tion 
; Bart. P.R.S. This, like the others of this genus, we may confider of fufficient 
refift our winters; being a native of the Japanefe ifles, where, as well as in 
: ined; but from the eafy 
a ‘ite, their = is eafily — even by watering: da 
and —— in rich loam. 
