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roundish, slightly covered with pubescence, and of a dull silvery green colour. 

 The flowers are very delicate, and measure when fully expanded from three and 

 a half to four inches in diameter. They consist of ten or twelve large outer 

 petals, arranged in two rows round a great number of smaller ones that rise 

 in the centre of the flower in an erect irregular mass. These outer petals are each 

 of a roundish-cordate form, varying from an inch to an inch and a half in breadth. 

 They are at first slightly concave, but spread open and become almost flat. In 

 some flowers they are entire and recurved at the edges ; generally however they 

 are indented, or partially divided and undulated. Their colour is pure white, 

 excepting for about a third of their length, nearest the base, which is deeply 

 tinged with red, as well as a small stripe up the centre : the latter very often ex- 

 tends the whole length of the petal, and diminishes in brightness towards the 

 edges. The centre petals are very different from those just described, and ap- 

 proach in some respects those of the Waratah, although by no means arranged 

 with the same regularity as in the flowers of that variety. They are all closely 

 united at the base, and rise nearly erect, so that the centre of the flower is consi- 

 derably elevated above the two rows of large outer petals, some of them are more 

 elongated than the rest and have a tubular appearance from their edges being 

 rolled back and compressed together. The greater part however are nearly of 

 equal height, and for half their length are of a roundish-oblong form, ending in 

 a very narrow minute point. They are seldom coloured, unless it is one or two 

 of the large tubular petals, which have the same blush tinge as those at the 

 extremity of the flower. Occasionally a few perfect stamina may be observed, as 

 well as the three united greenish styles ; and some good varieties have been raised 

 in this country from its seeds which sometimes attain maturity. 



It has been figured in the Botanical Register, t. 22, in 

 Curtis's Monograph, p. 2, and in Loddiges's Bot. Cab. 

 596. 



The plants of it in the Society's collection were presented 

 by Messrs. Chandler, Vauxhall, Mr. Knight, King's Road, 

 and others. It was also among those imported for the So- 

 ciety by Mr. Potts in 1822. 



12. Camellia Japonica P^eoniflora rosea. 

 Red Pceony-flowered Camellia. 



13. Camellia Japonica P^eoniflora pallida. 

 Blush Pceony-flowered Camellia. 



