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CAMELLIA JAPONICA ANEMONIFLORA. 
Anemone Flowered, or Waratdh Camellia. 
Camellia Japonica Anemoniflora. Bot. Magazine, 1.1654. Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 537. 
Anemone Flowered, or Waratkh Camellia. Curtis’s Mon. pi. 4. 
IN Curtis’s Monograph this sort is stated to have been imported in 1812, 
for the Royal Garden at Kew, but we have reason to believe that it was 
n the country several years before that time; in which we are con- 
irmed by Messrs. Loddiges, who record its introduction to Kew to have 
been about the year 1806. 
It is very distinct from any of the other Chinese varieties, and is 
always readily distinguished by its flat, and comparatively narrow, 
pointed leaves, and long, slender footstalks. It is usually among the 
latest in coming into blossom, and does not produce its flowers so freely 
as some of the other red flowering kinds. In growth it is moderately 
strong and erect, the branches are of a dark brown colour, and some¬ 
times a little striped. 
The leaves are from four to four and a half inches long, and about 
two or two and a half inches broad, recurved at the points and edges, 
but otherwise quite flat, and of a very dark shining green colour, in 
which the veins are scarcely perceptible; the serratures are small and 
sharp pointed; the midrib is strong and prominent, particularly on the 
under side of the leaves, and of a pale green colour. The footstalks are 
an inch long, round and slender, somewhat curved, giving to the 
leaves a pendant position. 
Flower buds oval, tapering towards the point, with roundish 
pointed, dark brown or chocolate-coloured scales, densely clothed with 
pubescence. 
The flowers are remarkably shewy, and resemble a large double 
Anemone, from which circumstance the variety has received its name. 
They vary from about three to four inches in diameter, and are of a deep 
red colour. The outer petals expand quite flat, and are five or six in 
number, most commonly the former, surrounding a great many smaller 
petals, regularly disposed, and rising upright in the centre of the flower; 
