By Mr. William Beattie Booth. 557 



A plant of it was imported for the Society in 1824, by their 

 collector, Mr. John Damper Parks, in compliment to whom 

 it has been named. 



23. Camellia Japonica Sabiniana. 



Sabine's White Camellia. 



A plant of this variety was brought home by Mr. Parks 

 along with the two preceding in 1824, but from being in a 

 sickly state when received, it did not flower until the spring 

 of the present year. It is very different from any of the other 

 white flowering kinds both in habit and general appearance. 



The branches grow upright, and are comparatively slender. The leaves-are 

 about the same length as those of the Double White, but they are broader and not 

 so much pointed or recurved. Their colour is a dark shining green, without the 

 veiny appearance peculiar to the leaves of the Double White. Petioles short and 

 almost round. Flower-buds roundish-oval, pale yellowish green, and slightly 

 pubescent. The flowers are three inches in expansion, of a pure white colour, 

 and resemble in their form those of the Pompone. The outer petals are disposed 

 in two rows, and spread nearly flat. They are about twenty in number, eaeli of 

 them is round, or but a very little c< relate", and about an inch and a half in dia- 

 meter. Those towards the centre of the flower are small and narnv, , confusedly 



among the petals, so as not to be discernible unli -s whin closely examined. 



The name, as I have in another place observed, is given in 

 honour of Joseph Sabine, Esq. the Secretary of the Society. 



THEA. 



The name Thea, as remarked by Sir James Edward 

 Smith, is generally considered to be of barbarous derivation, 

 originating in the Chinese Tsha or Tchaic, which has been 

 changed into Thea. Of this Genus there are at present three 



