By Mr. William Beattie Booth. 531 



as it affords an excellent stock whereon to inarch or graft the 

 double varieties. 



In addition to the six species I have thus described, three 

 others have been published as belonging to Camellia. The 

 first of these is the C. axillaris of Dr. Sims, of which good 

 figures will be found in the Botanical Magazine, t. 2047, 

 Botanical Register, t. 349, and in Loddiges's Botanical 

 Cabinet, t. 675, under the above name, by which it is generally 

 known in gardens ; but it has subsequently been ascertained 

 not to be a Camellia, but to belong to a different genus, and 

 perhaps natural order. In the Systema Vegetabilium of 

 Sprengel, vol. iii. 126, it is described as Gordonia anomala, 

 and in Sweet's Hortus Britannicus it is named Pohjspora 

 axillaris. 



The second species is the Camellia drupifera of Loureiro, 

 (Flor. Cochin, vol. ii. 499) which is questioned by M. Decan- 

 dolle, although he has inserted it in his Prodromus, page 

 529. By Sprengel it is described under the name of Mesua 

 bracteata. I have not seen any specimens of this plant, but 

 judging from the description of Loureiro, it is a very 

 doubtful species, and certainly distinct from Camellia. 



The third is the Camellia Euryoides of Mr. Lindley, 

 which I have already alluded to, and which will be described 

 under Thea. 



Varieties of the Camellia Japonic a which have been imported 

 from China. 



Of these very ornamental plants the Society has formed an 

 extensive collection, such as I may safely say is not surpassed 

 at the present time by any other in the kingdom. Inmaking 



