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Thea reticulata (Lindl.) Pierre, Fl. Forest. Cochinch. II. 

 sub tab. 119; 0. Kuntze, Rev. Gen. PI. I. p. 65; Makino, Phan. 

 et Pter. Jap. Ic. 111. II. tab. 91 (1902). 



Camellia reticulata Lindl. Bot. Regist. tab. 1078 (1827) ; 

 Hook, in Bot. Mag. tab. 2784 (1827), et tab. 4976 (1857) ; 

 Van Houtte, Fl. des Serres, XII. (1857), tab. 1282-3 ; Booth in 

 Hort. Soc. Trans. VII. p. 528 (1830) ; Seem, in Trans. Linn. Soc. 

 XXII. p. 343 (1859) ; Benth. Fl. Hongk. (1861) p. 30 ; Forbes 

 et Hemsl. in Journ. Linn. Soc. XXIII. p. 82 (1886) ; Kochs in 

 Engler's Bot. Jahrb. XXVII. p. 595 (1900). 



Camellia spectabilis Champ, var. /?. Bore pleno Seem, in 

 Bonpl. VI. (1858), p. 276. 



var. rosea Makino, var. nov. (Fig. III.) 



A small tree ; branches narrow, terete, glabrous, hardly 

 flexuous, avellaneo-cinereous. Leaves alternate, distichous, 

 petiolate, oblong, oblong-elliptical or oblong-lanceolate, sub- 

 abruptly attenuato-acuminate at the apex, acute at the base, 

 acute-serrulate, coriaceous, glabrous, shining, deep green above, 

 light yellowish-green and obscurely sparingly and minutely 

 fusco-punctulate beneath, about 7-12cm. long, 2J-5cm. broad; 

 midrib prominent on both sides, light green ; veins and main 

 veinlets more or less impressed above in recent ; petiole sub- 

 terete, glabrous, green, 10—15 cm. long. Flowers usually ter- 

 minal, or sometimes axillary, solitary or geminate, sessile, 5J— 

 7^ cm. in diameter, simple, rose-coloured. Sepals viridescent, 

 imbricated, collectively campanulated, adpressed-sericeo-pubes- 

 cent externally, concave, deciduous ; lower ones smaller, semi- 

 orbicular, subcoriaceous ; middle ones rounded ; upper ones 

 larger and thinner, obovato-oval, thinly membranaceous and 

 ciliated on margin, 2-2J cm. or more long, the innermost one 

 often subpetaloid. Corolla widely infundibuliform, connate 

 into a short tube at the base, 5-petaled, deciduous ; segments 

 imbricated in aestivation, rotund, emarginate, often very shortly 

 and broadly subunguiculate at the base, entire, about 3—4 cm. 

 broad, the outer two somewhat shorter, veins slightly deeper 

 in colour. Monadelphous stamens erect, broadly cylindrical, 



