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CAMELLIA JAPONICA, 
Single Red Camellia. 
Camellia Japonica, foliis ovatis acuminatis serratis nitidis convexis, ramulis peti- 
olisque glabris. Lindley. 
Camellia Japonica, Linn. Syst. Veg. Ed. 14. 632. Thunberg’s FI. Japon. p. 273. 
Willdenow’s Sp. Plant. 3. 842. Schneevooght’s leones, 7. Cavanilles Dissert. 
6. 305, 1.160, f. 1. Jacquin’slc. rar. 3. 55 3. Duhamel’s Traite des Arbres, &c. 
Ed. 2.243, t. 71. Bot. Magazine, t. 42. Hort. Kew. Ed. 2. 4. p. 235. Curtis’s 
Monograph, p. 1. Decandolle’s Prodromus, 1. p. 529. 
Thea Chinensis pimentae jamaicensis folio, flore roseo. Petiver’s Gaz. t. 33, f. 4. 
Tsubaki Kasmpfer. Amcen. 850, t. 851. 
Rosa Chinensis, Edwards’s Birds, 2. p. 67, f. 67. 
THE single red Camellia is stated, in the Hortus Kewensis, to have 
been cultivated before 1739, by Robert James Lord Petre, and is the 
first of the genus that was introduced into this country. Although it 
was figured and described by Petiver, in his Gazophylacium, in 1702, 
under the name of Thea Chinensis , and by Ksempfer, in 1712, under 
that of Tsubaki, yet it would appear to have been rare in our gardens 
in the time of Miller, as it is not noticed in the eighth edition of his 
Dictionary, published in 1768. For many years it was very scarce, 
and as it bore a high price, was generally treated as a stove plant; but 
when it became more plentiful, it was found to succeed equally well in 
a much lower temperature, and is now considered sufficiently hardy to 
endure the common winters of this climate, with only a slight protection 
in very severe weather; as is the case with many other plants, which 
have been introduced from the same interesting country. 
It is of free growth, and, in China, is said to attain the height of 
one of our Cherry-trees. The stem is erect and branching, of a pale 
brown colour. The branches are round, clothed with numerous alter¬ 
nate, thick, ovate-acuminate, dark shining green leaves, each about 
three inches long, and two inches broad, tapering towards the base and 
point, and having their edges sharply serrated, and waved. The midrib 
is strong and prominent on both sides of the leaf, but is most conspi¬ 
cuous on the lower side, which is somewhat veiny, and of a pale shining 
green, covered with numerous small dots. The foot-stalks are about 
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