and are each about one inch and a half, or two inches in diameter, very 
much resembling those of the Tea Tree. They are pretty freely pro¬ 
duced, and are composed of from five to ten, or even more, oval, con¬ 
cave, sometimes obcordate, slightly incurved petals, ranged in one or 
two rows, according as the flower happens to be single, or semi-double. 
In the former case, the petals are nearly half an inch in breadth, and 
expand almost flat; but in the latter they are a little twisted, and 
seldom exceed a quarter of an inch in breadth at their extremity. The 
filaments are filiform, rather shorter than the petals, generally spread¬ 
ing, though sometimes they rise in a close cylindrical sort of cup, and 
surround the styles, which are three in number, united as in the other 
species of Camellia, and of a pale greenish yellow colour, with simple 
stigmas. The anthers are large, two lobed, deep yellow. 
Among the Chinese drawings in the Library of the Horticultural 
Society, there are three representations of this Camellia; one with the 
flowers perfectly double, like those of the White Rosa Banksice, and two 
with the flowers semi-double. A plant of the former variety was im¬ 
ported for the Society, by Captain Drummond, in 1823, and flowered 
in the Garden at Chiswick, in December, 1826. It has since been pub¬ 
lished in the Botanical Register, folio 1091- As it differs in no respect 
from the plant we have just described, excepting in the flowers having 
a greater number of petals, we think it unnecessary to give a figure of it. 
The soil, in which the Camellia Sasanqua is said to be cultivated 
with success, in China, consists of little more than fragments of loose 
stones, crumbled into a sort of coarse earth, by the joint action of the 
sun and rain. In this country, we have remarked that it succeeds best, 
when grown in a moderately strong, rich, sandy soil; and is readily 
increased by inarching, or grafting on the single red Camellia. 
