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CAMELLIA JAPONICA INCARNATA. 
Lady Hume's Blush Camellia. 
Blush Camellia . Bot. Repository, 660. f. 1. Bot. Register, t. 112. 
Camellia Japonica Incarnata. Loddiges’s Bot. Cabinet, t. 140. 
Buff, or Hume's Blush Camellia. Curtis’s Monograph, pi. 5. 
THE first plant of this fine variety was imported in 1806, for the late 
Lady Amelia Hume, of Wormleybury, in Hertfordshire; in honour of 
whom it received its name. In growth and foliage it has much of the 
character of the double white, and has been nearly as extensively 
cultivated, being found in almost every Collection. 
The shoots are long and straggling, of a deep brown colour when 
young, but changing to a pale brown, as they grow old. The leaves are 
from three and a half, to four inches long, and about two inches broad 
in the widest part, which is nearest the point; recurved, and slightly 
undulated at the edges, with moderately large serratures, and numerous 
prominent veins, considerably paler than the general colour of the 
leaves, which is a rich shining green. The footstalks are about three 
quarters of an inch long, rounded on the lower side, and slightly flat¬ 
tened above. 
Flower buds, often two together, of a roundish oval form, with 
broad roundish cordate, pale green, pubescent scales, which become 
brown at the edges, as the flower approaches expansion: and when it is 
fully expanded, are entirely of a yellowish brown colour, to which the 
pubescence gives a delicate silvery tinge. 
The flowers are freely produced, and open very regularly; they are 
from three to three and a half inches in diameter, of a fine glowing flesh 
colour, becoming richer as they expand, and fading if too much ex¬ 
posed. The outer petals are each about an inch in diameter, nearly 
round, and frequently a good deal recurved. Towards the centre of the 
flower, which is pitted as in the double white, the petals gradually 
diminish in size, and are pointed. In general they are evenly arranged, 
and when the flower is very double, they are laid over one another, in 
such a manner as to give to it an hexangular appearance; a peculiarity 
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