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hairy branches, obovate, acuminate, serrated leaves, and small, 

 neat, white flowers, never expanding fully, but in size resem- 

 bling those of a Thea. It is inferior in beauty to any of the 

 previously known Camellias, but must be considered a subject 

 of much interest to the cultivator, from its being one of the 

 means employed by the Chinese for propagating the orna- 

 mental species of the genus. 



The stock of another Camellia, brought from China in 1824, 

 by Mr. John Damper Parks, and which had also perished, 

 produced this species. A figure and description will be found 

 in the Botanical Register, fol. 983. It requires the same 

 treatment as other Camellias. 



VII. Solanum dealbatum. 



S. suffmticosum, undique tomento stellato incanum, foliis petiolo costaque 

 subtus aculeatis, inferioribus subsinuatis superioribus integris, racemis axillaribus 

 paucifloris, calycibus subaculeatis. 



A neat undershrub, covered all over, except the inside 

 of the petals, with stellate, white tomentum. The stem is 

 erect, nearly simple, round, very white, with a few slender, 

 straight, fine, scattered prickles. Leaves seated on stalks 

 about half an inch long, oblong-lanceolate, obtuse, flat, a 

 little oblique at the base, with the costa beneath occasionally 

 prickly like the stem. Each leaf has usually two small leaves 

 in its axilla. The flowers appear in axillary, few-flowered 

 racemes toward the end of the branches, and are pale lilac, 

 with long yellow anthers. Calyx five-parted, with ovate, 

 acuminate lobes, occasionally aculeate. Petals ovate, plaited. 

 Anthers smooth, equal, yellow. A hardy green-house plant, 

 seeds of which were procured for the Society from Chile in 

 1824, by Mr. Place. It thrives very well in the open border 



