526 Descri$)tion of the Species of Camellia and Thea. 



been introduced a few years since, and as far as I have been 

 able to learn, has not yet produced its flowers in this country. 

 I am therefore unable to give a complete description of it. 

 The plants in the collection of the Society were presented by 

 Mr. Samuel Brookes, of the Ball's Pond Nursery, and 

 Messrs. Loddiges, of Hackney ; by the former it was intro- 

 duced in 1823. In growth it is erect and branching. 



The shoots are round, smooth, and slightly villous, when young of a pale 

 brown colour. The leaves are ovate-oblong, alternate, smooth, thin, and flat, 

 usually about 3 inches long, and 1 £ inch broad, with numerous small sharp 

 serratures, and a narrow sharp point. On the upper side they are of a dark 

 shining green, with a small villous midrib, beneath they are of a pale green, with 

 the midrib strong and prominent, and nearly smooth. The footstalks are short and 

 villous, of a brownish green colour, and slightly hollowed on the upper side. 



In the account by Dr. Wallich above referred to, it is 

 stated to have been discovered by the Honourable Mr. 

 Gardner, on the mountains of Sheopore and Chandra-Ghiri, 

 which form the boundaries of the valley of Katmandu on the 

 north and south, and have been noticed in Kirkpatrick's 

 account of Nipal. In that country it grows to the size of a 

 small tree, throwing out numerous leafy branches, producing 

 abundance of small fragrant white blossoms during the rainy 

 season, that is from July to October, and succeeded by ripe 

 fruit, which ripen in the course of three months ; from the 

 seed the Nipalese extract an oil by pressure, which is much 

 valued by them as a medicine. 



IV. Camellia Maliflora. Lindley. 

 Apple-blossomed Camellia. 



C. Maliflora ; foliis obovatis acuminatis nitidis convexis, ramulis petiolisque 

 pubescentibus, ovario glabro. Lindley. 



This plant, although figured and described as being a va- 

 riety of Camellia Sasanqua, is unquestionably very distinct 



