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CAMELLIA JAPONICA; rnr. ALBERTII. 
(prince albert’s japan camellia.) 
class. 
MONADELPHIA. 
NATURAL ORDER. 
TERNSTROMIACEAE. 
ORDER. 
POLYANDRIA. 
Generic Character. — Calyx five-parted, coriaceous, surrounded below with many smaller scales. Petals 
five or more, large, joined at the base, encircling a hypogynous disk. Filaments united below into 
a crown, attached to the petals. Anthers nearly ovate. Germen many-seeded. Style one. 
Stigmas three. Capsule coriaceous, pulvinate, or abortively globose, three-furrowed, three-seeded. 
Specific Character. — Plant shrubby. Leaves alternate, coriaceous, acutely serrated, acuminate. 
Flowers axillary or terminal, subsessile or pedunculate, single or double. 
Var. Albertii. — Flowers perfectly double ; outer petals roundish, emarginate, lying somewhat flatly; 
central ones small, partially erect, of various forms ; of a whitish or light blush- coloured ground, 
irregularly striped or blotched, longitudinally, with reddish pink. 
The varieties of Camellia continually raised in British and continental gardens 
now almost exceed calculation ; and the forms and colours of many approach so 
near to those of others previously named, that it becomes nearly as difficult a task 
to distinguish them, as it is to attach the proper name to what are termed florist’s 
flowers. Indeed, if the Camellia is not soon ranged under that comprehensive 
phrase, it will not be because the garden productions from it are not sufficiently 
numerous, or their differences slight enough to render the descriptions of them as 
intervolved and intricate as those of any recognised florist’s flower. 
Some time having elapsed since a new variety was introduced from its native 
regions, any such importation must necessarily be a novelty in more than one 
sense. Consequently, the present beautiful sort, sent to the celebrated collection 
of Messrs. Chandler, of Vauxhall, from China, is much esteemed by connoisseurs, 
and will, no doubt, be as favourably received by the public at large. In its prin- 
cipal features, it is certainly not far removed from some previously cultivated 
kinds ; but it is, unquestionably, a very superior plant. The leaves are of that 
deep green, glossy, healthy-looking character, which makes its congeners so much 
