FLOWERS OF GARDEN AND GREENHOUSE 
dotted thickly with pellucid glands, and the edges turned back slightly. 
Flowers large and few; June to August. 
H. PATULUM (spreading). Stems herbaceous, round, purplish, 6 feet 
high. Leaves lance-shaped, with edges rolled back; not dotted with 
glands; tapering to the base. Flowers in corymbs, June to August 
Native of India and China (introduced 1823). H. moserianum, a hybrid 
of garden origin obtained by crossing H. patulum and H. calycinum, is 
one of the most beautiful of dwarf summer-flowering shrubs. There is 
a variety of it called tricolor, with small leaves coloured white and rose. 
H. perforatum (perforated). Stems erect, 3 feet, slender, branched, 
two-ridged, brown. Leaves narrow oblong, 1 inch, with pellucid veins 
and glands. Blowers, 1 inch, in many-flowered corymbose cymes. 
Sepals with black glandular lines or dots; persistent. Petals also 
marked with black glands. July to September. Native, 
cultivation With the exception of H. hookerianum, all the species 
mentioned are quite hardy, and will succeed in ordinary 
garden soil, if not very poor and light. Sandy loam is the soil that 
appears to suit them best. H. calycinum does well in the shade of 
trees, and is often planted as a cover for game. They produce great 
quantities of seeds, and may either be propagated by this means—the 
seed being sown in the borders in autumn—by cuttings, which readily 
root, or in the case of those with a creeping rootstock, by cutting this 
up and allowing a stem to each portion. These last quickly establish 
themselves and grow freely. The operation should be performed early 
in spring. H. moserianum should be planted in a large bed in a 
conspicuous place on a lawn. It is not hardy in the North of England 
H. patulum is almost as effective. H. sinensis is a useful plant to 
grow in pots for the greenhouse. 
Description of H. calycinum is the species represented, with leaves, 
Plate «. bud, and flower. Fig. 1 is a section of the essential 
organs only. 
CAMELLIAS 
Natural Order Ternstr^miacevE. Genus Camellia 
Camellia (after Father Kamel, a Jesuit missionary and traveller of the 
seventeenth century). A small genus of shrubs and trees which includes 
the Tea plant. They have thick, leathery leaves, and generally large 
handsome flowers which exhibit no very sharp division between sepals 
and petals. The sepals are usually five or six, but there is a gradual 
