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CAMELLIA JAPONICA VARIEGATA, 
Double-Striped Camellia. 
Camellia Japonica. Var. flore pleno variegato. Botanist’s Repository, pi. 91. 
Camellia Japonica Variegata, Loddiges’s Bot. Cab. t. 329. 
Double-Striped Camellia , Curtis’s Monograph, pi. 2. 
THE splendid variety here represented, is one of the first of the double 
Camellias that was brought from China: a plant of it having been im¬ 
ported, in 1792, by Captain Connor, of the Carnatic, East Indiaman, 
for the late John Slater, Esq. of the India House. It is usually among 
the earliest in coming into blossom, and is of a robust habit, with com¬ 
paratively strong, dark-coloured spreading branches. 
The leaves are three and a half inches long, and two inches broad, 
roundish ovate, somewhat convex, with moderately large serratures, and 
a bluntish recurved point; they are of a dark shining green, and have 
a strong prominent pale-coloured midrib. The footstalks are short 
and thick, a little flattened on the upper side, otherwise round, and of 
a pale green colour. 
Flower buds roundish oval, rather more than an inch long; scales 
large, and nearly round, pale green, densely clothed with pubescence. 
The flowers are of a fine dark rose, or red colour, irregularly 
blotched with white; but in this respect they vary considerably, the 
autumnal or early flowers being always most elegantly variegated, 
whilst those which appear in the spring, are generally plain red. They 
are from three to four inches in expansion. The outer petals are each 
about an inch and a half in diameter, roundish cordate, thick and fleshy 
at the base, and broad and thin at the points and edges. They are at 
first nearly flat, and evenly disposed in several rows, laid over one 
above another; but after the flower has been some time open they 
become recurved. The centre petals are small and round, frequently 
arranged in tufts, with a few parcels of stamina, twisted and inter¬ 
mixed among them. Some flowers are particularly handsome, and as 
double as a Rose, without any stamina being perceptible; others, 
again, are of an irregular shape, and little more than semi-double. 
