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well, are very regularly formed, and of a tine rose colour ; they exceed 3 in. in diameter, 

 and are little inferior in appearance to those of C. j. esimia, or of C. j. imbricata ; the petals 

 being nearly as numerous, and arranged with equal symmetry. Raised from seeds of 

 the waratah, by Mr. Chandler, in 1S19. It possesses much beauty ; but its flowers are 

 less brilliant than those of some other* : it is not so well known as it should be. (JUL, t- 

 Price, in London, 10$. 6d. 



» C j. 4J splendent Chandl. III., synon. C. j. coccinea Hort. Brit., p. £91 Allnutt's splendid 

 J. C. — Figured in Chandl. Id., t. 55. A much admired and most desirable variety. The 

 flowers are of a brilliant red, 3 in. broad, very showy, and produced abundantly on both 

 young plants and old ones. The petals are all deeply veined, and, though less numerous 

 than in some varieties, are so arranged in the centre as to form flowers to all appear- 

 ance perfectly double. The petals, also, are so remarkable for their roundness as to give 

 the flowers a peculiar character : by which the variety may be readily distinguished. 

 The plant, in habit, is similar to the single red V C. japonica L.\ but is stronger and 

 more bushy ; the branches are upright and twiggy. Price, in London, 5s. 



» C. j. 43 Refg sinensis Lodd. BoL Cab. The Chinese Rose (? Hibiscus -flowered J. C. — 

 Figured in Lodd. Bot- C ib., t. 14~5.,and Chandl. III., t. So. This is a bold-flowering, 

 freely blooming, Gist-rate variety Its pale purplish red flowers are tolerably full of pe- 

 tals, extremely handsome, 4 in across, and bearing con:iderable resemblance' to those of 

 C. j. elegans. It was raised by Mr. Chandler about 1S19. Price, in London, 7s 6<f ; and 

 at Bollwvller, 15 francs. 



« C .;. 44 Rjssii Chandl. III., t. 57. Ross's J. C. — Figured in Chandl. III., t. 37., and 

 described in that work This is a desirable variety : it is briefly described in Gard. 

 Mag., vol. i. p. Cll., under the name of Ross's CameHaa gloriosa. The flowers are 

 often 4 in. in diameter; in form they resemble those of C. j. elegans; but in colour 

 they are of a much darker and deeper red. 



* C. j. 45 Aiton'x Chandl Cam. Brit. Alton's J. C. Aiton's large single red C— Figured in 



Chandl ///., t. 38., and in ChandL Cam. Brit., t. 3. It is a very striking variety, and a 

 most valuable one to the cultivator of camellias, on account of its producing seeds more 

 freely than any other kind whatever. This and four others were raised at the Vauxhall 

 Nursery, from seeds contained in one capsule of the pompone camellia, and sown in Nov. 

 1S19. It was named in compliment to Mr. Aiton, the king's gardener. [III.) Price, in 

 London, 7*. 6d.; and at Boliwyller, 50 francs. 

 « C. j. 46 epsome'nsis Chandl. 111. ' The Epsom J. C, Young's semidouble red C. — Figured 

 in Chandl. 7/7., t. 4 '.'). Raised by Mr. Young of Epsom, previously to 1891 It is robust 

 in habit ; its flowers are much like those of the semidouble red, but of a deeper colour, 

 and with more petals. It is prone to vary in the number of petals : when they are nu- 

 merous, some of the stamens are transformed into small, roundish, spathulate, striped, 

 red petals, all of which, as well as the large outer ones, are tolerably evenly arranged 

 over one another, and distinctly marked with dark-coloured veins. The usual colour of 

 the flowers is a deep red, approaching to scarlet, and their width about 3 in. .///.. 



f>. Varieties raised in Britain that are figured and described in British Works , 

 exclusive of those figured and described in Chandler and Booth'' s Illustrations 

 of the Camellieae. 



* C j. 47 Cohilh Swt. Br. Fl.-Gard., 8 ser. Chill's J. C — Figured in Swt. Br. Fl.-Gard., 



! - t. -., and described there ; whence it appears that its petals are striped like those of 

 the carnation, and that, when Mr. Sweet wrote the description, published in June, 1829, 

 he deemed it to be the finest and most beautiful variety that he had seen : this was pre- 

 vious to the flowering of C. j. Sweet/awa. G. Don has described C. j. Colvill//', as " an 

 elegant hybrid, with the petals regularly disposed, blotched with white on a red ground." 

 •j 3/7//.. i. p. S7n. Price, in London, 10s. 6d. 

 m C. j. 48 Strfr/iaha S>r. Br. Fl.-Gard., -2. ser. S mxT t J. C, Sweet's painted-flowered C. — 

 Figured in Swt. Br. Fl.-Gard . - . in March, 1832, The flower bears a strong 



resemblance to a beautiful variegated rose : it is generally very double, more spreading 

 than that of many varieties, and elegantly marked and variegated with white, blush, and 

 deep rosy red It was the finest variety ?<Ir. Sweet had seen, and one of numerous hybrid 

 varieties that he had fertilised and raised from seeds, several years before j perhaps about 

 - , in the nursery of Mr Colvill. This was die offspring of the double-striped, fer- 

 tilised by the pompone: the foliage resembles most that of the latter, but the leaves are 

 larger ; and the plant, if not seen in flower, might be mistaken for a strong-growing 

 single-flowered one. Sweet's camellia assimilates with Gray's invincible; but its 

 flower bud is larger, and its flower larger, and of a deeper colour, than those of that 

 varietv. 



* C. j. 49 Kn/ghtti Lodd. Bot. Cab. Knight's J. C. — Figured in Lodd. Bot. Cab., t. 146-3. It 



is sta ed in Chandl. ///., t. 31., that this approximates doscly to C. j. insignis, and that it 

 was raised I y Mr. Knight of the King's Road, Chelsea. 



Varieties raised in Britain, of which some Description has been published. 



» C. j. 5<» Rdsa mundi Don's Mill. The Rose of the World J.C. — Flowers white and crim- 

 son. J)on's Mill., i. p. o,6. x Price, in London, 5s. ; at Boliwyller, 50 francs, 



* I / 51 Fre'ssh Don's Mill. Press's J. C. — Flowers single red. {Dam's Mill., L p. 576. 



* (. ' ' B rtbro-punctata Don's Mill. The red-spotted- flowered J. C. — Flowers single, white, 



spotted with red. .Don's Mill., i. p 



* C. j. 53 F/phinstonvmsL Miss Elphinstone's -J. C. — Flowers red. Raised bv Mr. Knight. 



Street's fl. B..\> 74. Assimilates to C. j. Wilton/. Chandl. Jll.,1. 15/ Price, in Lon- 

 don, 7*. <W. 



* I t igle-stripcd and dotted. Burnard, in Gard. Mag., vol ii. p. 558., has described 



its flowers as having a clear white ground, with pink stripes, and dotted all over with 

 small dots : they are large and beautiful s and the variety was raised ly Mr Prc.-s, along 

 with the varieties punctata, Rbea mundi, Priori and edrpris, from seeds saved from a 

 plant of the semidouble red, the flowers of which had been fecundated with pollen of the 

 »inglc white. 



