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bushy shrub, and remarkable on account of its being one of the plants 
upon which the Chinese graft their varieties of the Camellia Japonica. 
Of the six species above enumerated, five will be found illustrated 
and described in this volume. The first of these, the Camellia Ja¬ 
ponica, which we shall presently notice, must be considered as the 
type of the genus. The one omitted is the Camellia Kissi, of Dr. 
Wallich, which is but little known in our gardens, having only been 
introduced a few years since, and, as far as we have been able to learn, 
has not yet flowered in this country. An elaborate account of it is 
given in the Asiatic Researches, vol. xiii. p. 428. 
We need scarcely add that the whole of the figures, both of the 
species of Camellia, and the varieties of Camellia Japonica, with only 
two or three exceptions, have been made from plants in the splendid 
collection of Messrs. Chandler, Vauxhall. 
