Order VII. MONADELPHIA POLYANDRIA. 597 
9955 Leaves thin ovate finely serrate pale-green. Branches slender twiggy 
9936 Leaves obovate oblong serrulate j upper entire. Flowers solitary subsessile subaxillary 
9957 Leaves oblong blunt large fleshy stalked shining tinged with red 
9958 Sepals 4 roundish petaloid. Petals 4, Leaves oblong acuminate toothed 
9959 Flowers stalked. Outer stamens longest sterile 
and Miscellaneous Particular). 
strong sunshine. In three or four weeks after, a few more of the Camellias may be brought from the vinery 
or peach-house, and put into a cooler situation. This may be repeated three or four times, which will make 
as many diff'erent successions of flowering. Those that are wanted to come into flower early, may remain in 
the warm house till they are beginning to flower, when they should be taken to a cold place, say the coldest 
place of the greenhouse ; then give them plenty of light only, and they will open their flowers well, and stand 
long. A Camellia cannot stand heat when in flower, indeed they seldom open their flowers fine when in 
heat, and, at all events, the flowers soon fall off Those that are kept all the summer in the vinery, will come 
into flower by the first or middle of October, and a pretty large plant, having perhaps fifty or a hundred 
flower-buds, will continue in flower till the month of January. Those plants that are removed early from 
the vinery, will now be in flower, to succeed those that were in flower in October, and have now done flower- 
ing. These last should be immediately taken into the heat. They will make their young wood early, and they 
may remain in heat till they come into flower, which will perhaps be a month earlier next year. By attending 
to shifting the Camellia pli,nts from the warm-house to the cold, a regular succession of flowers may thus be 
had from the first of October to the middle of July. I have even had them all the summer, but the flowers 
are best in the winter. Those produced in summer are far from being so fine, and do not stand half the time 
of those that come into flower in November, December, January, February, March and April. Camellias 
delight to be kept damp all the summer months, and a little shaded from the strong sun. Give them plenty 
of water while they are making their young shoots; they may also get a gentle sprinkling over the leaves 
once every week during the summer season, except when they are in flower. Camellias will stand a great 
deal of cold without being much injured, but they will not form many flower-buds without some artificial 
heat." {Caled. Mem. iii. 316.) 
1497. Barringtonia. In memory of the Hon. Daines Barrington, F. R. S., an active Fellow of the Society 
of Antiquaries, and author of several papers in their Transactions. A lofty tree, the handsomest in the 
equinoctial flora. It has thick shady bunches of long wedge-shaped coriaceous leaves, and large handsome 
purple and white flowers, which open at night, and fall at sunrise. They are succeeded by a reddish brown 
drupe, the seed of which mixed with the bait, inebriates fish in the same manner as Cocculus indicus. It 
grows on the sea shore and at the mouths of rivers, and is cultivated in the governor's garden at St. Helena. 
It is very rare in our stoves, though not ditticult to manage. Sweet says, " a mixture of two-thirds loam and 
one-third peat, is a good soil for it. Cuttings taken off' at a joint, when the wood is ripe, and put in a pot of 
sand under a hand-glass in moist heat, will strike root readily : none of the leaves should be taken off or 
shortened." {Bot. Cult. 21.) 
1498. Gustavia. In memory of Gustavus III-., king of Sweden, who presented a great collection of Indian 
plants to the elder Linnaus. A tree remarkable for its large white flowers, larger than those of the water- 
lily, but with a large naked bald receptacle between the corolla and the style. The flowers smell sweet, but 
the wood is extremely fetid. In Surinam it is used for hoops. In the stove it grows in sand and loam, and 
roots in sand under a hand-glass. 
1499. Careya. Named after Dr. William Carey, the editor of Roxburgh's Flora Indica, and an English 
physician and botanist residing at Serampore. Beautiful Indian plants, witli long red stamens. 
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