The flower buds are more freely produced upon this variety, than 
upon almost any other with which we are acquainted. They are of a 
roundish oval form, and of a dull pale green colour, with but little 
pubescence. A few of them occasionally have brownish-coloured scales, 
resembling those of the Warat&h. 
The flowers are large, and very regularly formed, measuring, when 
fully expanded, upwards of three inches and a half in diameter. They 
are of a deep, almost crimson red colour, exceeding in brilliancy that of 
any of the Chinese Camellias, and not surpassed in this respect by any 
in cultivation. The petals, though not very numerous, are compara¬ 
tively large, and of a roundish form, a little divided at the extremity, 
and incurved at the edges. They are each about an inch and a half in 
breadth, and seldom spread flat, but rise in distinct circles over one 
above another. The whole are marked with dark-coloured veins. 
Sometimes the flowers vary and assume the character of the Warat&h, 
as represented in Camellia Britannica, pi. 1, with the petals more or less 
marked with white, in the manner of the double-striped; but its usual 
appearance is like what we have shown in the annexed engraving. 
