560 Description of the Species of Camellia and Thea. 



three together, produced on round recurved footstalks, about half an inch in length, 

 and of a brownish-green, very slightly pubescent. They are each an inch in dia- 

 meter, and consist of seldom more than five roundish-oval, concave, yellowish- 

 white petals, which as the flower gets old, become reflexed and much twisted. 

 The stamina are numerous, rising close and upright, surrounding the style as in 

 the flowers of Camellia. Anthers large, roundish cordate, deep yellow. Style 

 united at the base, but dividing into three separate bodies towards the top, as in 

 Camellia, greenish, and rather shorter than the stamina. Ovary 3-celled, con- 

 taining two or more ovules in each. 



In the Botanical Magazine, t. 998, this species is figured 

 and described under the name of Thea Chinensis var. Bohea, 

 but it is very doubtful whether the figure was not actually 

 made from a species of Thea viridis, to which it has a 

 greater resemblance. It is the Thea Bohea |3 laxa of the 

 2nd Edition of the Hortus Kevvensis, vol. 2, p. 230. A good 

 figure will be found of it in the Botanical Cabinet, p. 226, and 

 a very faithful one is given by Ktempfer in his Amcenitates 

 Exoticae, 605, t. 606. The Thea Cantoniensis described by 

 Loureiro in his Flora Cochinchinensis, p. 414, is very nearly 

 allied to this plant, if it is not actually the same. 



III. Thea Euryoides. 

 Camellia Euryoides. Bot Reg. t. 983. 



Th. Eur if aides; ramis debilibus pilosis, foliis ovato-lanceolatis acuminatis trun- 

 catis serratis subtus sericeis, floribus solitariis turbinatis, pedunculis squamosis. 

 Until, hi Bot. Reg. t. «J83. 



This interesting plant was first imported by the Horti- 

 cultural Society in 1822, and produced its flowers in March 

 1826, when a drawing was made of it, which has since been 

 published in the Botanical Register, t. 983, under the name 

 of Camellia Euryoides ; but I am inclined to think its cha- 

 racter will be found to agree in more points with those of 

 Thea than with Camellia, and for this reason I have consi- 

 dered it as belonging to the former. It possesses little beauty, 



