PLATE XCI. 



CAMELLIA JAPONICA. Far. flare plena variegato. 



Double-Jiripcd Camellia. 



CLASS XVI. ORDER VI. \fSchntes 8* <d. 



of Gen. riant. 



MONODELPHIA POLYANDRIA. Threads united. Many Chives. 



ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Calyx imbricatus, polyphyllus; foliolis inte- 

 rioribus majoribus. 



Emfalemekt tiled, many leaved; the inner 

 leaves the largeft. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER OF VARIETY. 



Camellia foliis brevioribus, latioribus; floribus | Camellia with fliorter and broader leaves; flowers 

 plenis, variegatis. double and ftriped. 



In hopes that the fubjeft will plead our excufe, in thus again, obtruding a kind of nonentity, in 

 reference to the fexual fyftem, on our fcientific friends; and that a figure, of fo rare, and beautiful 

 a plant, would be agreeable to all; we have, once more, put by the etiquette of fcience, for the 

 charms of beauty; yet for this deviation, we think an apology neceflary, as it is undoubtedly not 

 conformable to the plan of our undertaking. 



This variety of the Camellia Japonica, is of the fame date in our gardens, as the double white, and 

 was introduced through the fame medium. As yet this plant is found in but very few collections, 

 and is fold at a very high price; not being of free growth, few cuttings, or grafts can be obtained. 

 It has hitherto, been treated as a hothoufe plant; but there is no doubt it is equally hardy with the 

 common fort, upon which, all the plants we have as yet feen, and indeed thole that were firft im- 

 ported from China, were grafted; an inftance in proof, that horticulture muft have, there, attained 

 to a confiderable degree of perfeftion, in die operative part: as well as, that poflefling double 

 flowering varieties, of their molt beautiful plants, which are only produced by a feries of cultivation, 

 for ages ; inconteftably proves the antiquity of the art, (if any frefli proofs were neceflary,) in that 

 country. Our figure was made from a drawing taken partly, from a plant which flowered in Auguft 

 laft year, in the collection of J. Hibbert, Efq. Clapham; and partly from one now (April) in full 

 bloom, in the confervatory of R. H. James, Efq. Grofvenor-Place; the only ones we have as yet feen 

 in flower; wherefore the time of flowering cannot as yet be fixed. 



