JAPAN" ROSE.- 
was cultivated before 1742, by Robert .James* 
Lord Petre." 
The second species, or Camellia Sasanqua* 
which is a tree of a middling size, differs 
from the first, in having thinner, narrower 
leaves, obscurely serrated ; flowers many times 
smaller, with oblong emarginate petals y, and a 
much smaller and more slender stem. The 
Sowers are borne singly at the ends of the 
branches : the calyx is usually five-leaved,- but 
sometimes six and the petals are five, but 
sometimes six or seven, of a. snowy whiteness*, 
and deciduous., The leaves,, when dried in 
the shade, have a sweet smell, and the women 
wash their hair in a decoction of them. They 
are also mixed with Tea, to give it an agree- 
fable odour. Dr.. Martyn remarks, that this 
species so resembles the Tea Plant, that it is 
distinguished by little else besides the coalesc- 
ing stamens - 7 and, that this is scarcely a suffi- 
cient mark of distinction, since the stamens 
coalesce only at the base, and sometimes seem 
even to be distindh It is a native of Japan, 
atnd flowers hi N ovember* 
The 
