PLATE DCLX. 



CAMELLIA JAPONICA. Var.Jiore pleno roseo. 



Hose-coloured Camellia, 



CLASS XVL ORDER VL 

 MONJDELPHIA FOLYANDRJA. Threads united. Many Chives. 



ESSENTIAI- GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Calyx imbricatus, polyphyllus : foliolis interiori- 

 bus majoiibus. 



Empalement tiled, many-leaved : the inner 

 leaves the largest. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 



Camellia floribus roseis : petalis exterioribus 

 magnis, patentibus: inlerioribus parvis, erectis : 

 foliis latis, nitidis. 



Camellia with rose-coloured flowers: the outer 

 petals are large and spreading : the inner 

 ones small and upright : the leaves broad and 

 shining. 



CAMELLIA JAPONICA. Var.Jiore pleno imarnato. 

 Flesh-coloured Camellia. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 



Camellia foliis conspic'ue nervosis : floribus pe- 

 talis numerosis, pallide carneis. 



Camellia with leaves strongly nerved : flowers 

 with numerous petals, of a pale flesh colour. 



So high in estimation is every variation of the Camellia Japonica, that even a new and rare plant is not 

 considered more interesting, nor of so much value as one of these beautiful varieties; the number of 

 which is now extended to sixteen, at least so enumerated by cultivators, and all considered as perfectly 

 distinct. The rose-coloured variety was introduced to the royal gardens at Kew about 1808, and the 

 pale variety was first cultivated in the conservatory of the late Lady Amelia Hume, we believe, in 180^). 

 It is nearly allied to the white, and in severe winters so little colour is visible, that Mrs. Beaumont 

 (with whom this flowered last December at Eretton Hall) informed me it was only by comparing it 

 with the white that it could positively be said to possess any colour ; but, upon compaiiscn, a blush was 

 evident. So delicate a test is only requisite in rigid seasons from the want of snn. Both these varieties 

 flower from December till March. 



