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and slightly clothed with pubescence, becoming brown before the flowers open, 

 like the buds of the Waratah. The flowers are generally about 3 or 3| inches in 

 diameter, and open at the same time as those of the Waratah and Atro-rubens. 

 They are of a crimson red colour, and resemble the flowers of a large Double 

 Hibiscus. The petals are numerous, of an irregular shape, comparatively long, 

 narrow, and pointed, all of them are veined. The exterior ones are seldom an 

 inch in breadth when spread out, and do not lie flat over one another, but are 

 much undulated, and unequal in length, which causes the flower to have a starry 

 appearance. The interior petals are also undulated and pointed, with then- 

 edges compressed, so as almost to meet. They are nearly upright, and diminish in 

 size towards the centre of the flower, which is not elevated, although it is more 

 filled with petals than in those flowers, where it is pitted. Sometimes the flower 

 has a different appearance, and is then mistaken for another variety, the petals 

 being smaller than I have described, similar in colour and formation, but fewer in 

 number, and more regularly arranged, with several parcels of stamina in the 



It was first imported in 1794 by Sir Robert Preston, 

 Bart, of Valleyfield, who then lived at Woodford, in Essex. 

 A good figure is given of it in the Botanical Repository, 

 t. 199, and others have since been published in Curtis's 

 Monograph, p. 3 ; and in Loddiges's Botanical Cabinet, 

 p. 397 ; but in neither of these works is it mentioned as being 

 like Greville's Red Camellia, or that a variety similar to 

 it was cultivated under that name. 



5. Camellia japonica incarnata. 

 Lady Hume's Blush Camellia. 

 The first plant of this fine variety was imported in 1806, 

 for the late Lady Amelia Hume, of Wormleybury, in Hert- 

 fordshire, in honour of whom it received its name. 



In growth and foliage it has much of the character of the 

 Double White, and has been nearly as extensively cultivated, 

 being found in almost every collection. 



The branches are long and straggling, of a deep brown colour when young, 

 but changing to a pale brown as they grow old. The leaves are from 3 \ to 4 

 inches long, and about 2 inches broad in the widest part, which is nearest the 

 point ; recurved, and slightly undulated at the edges, with moderately large 



