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CAMELLIA JAPONIC A RUBRA PLENA. 
Double Red Camellia. 
Camellia Japonica, rubra plena. Loddiges’s Botanical Cabinet, t. 397. 
Transactions of the Hort. Soc. Vol. 7. 
Double Red Camellia. Curtis’s Monograph, pi. 3. 
Camellia Japonica, flore rubro pleno. Botanist’s Repository, t. 199. 
SOME confusion exists with regard to this Camellia, from its being 
cultivated in many Collections under the name of the Old Red, and 
Greville’s Red, both being considered distinct varieties; but, after having 
carefully compared plants with those names, that were subjected to the 
same kind of treatment, we are satisfied there is no difference whatever 
between them, their flowers being precisely the same in every respect. It 
is of a free and robust habit, and grows very erect. The flowers are but 
sparingly produced before the plant gets old, and attains a considerable 
size, which is the reason of its not being so much cultivated as many 
other varieties. 
The leaves are usually about four inches long, and two inches broad, 
tapering to both ends, very sharp pointed, recurved, and undulated, with 
numerous small sharp serratures. They are of a brownish green, when 
young; but when grown to their full size, are of a dark shining green. 
The midrib is prominent, and moderately strong. The footstalk is half 
an inch long, nearly round, and of a pale brownish green colour. 
The flower buds are oval, somewhat pointed, generally of a dull 
green, and slightly clothed with pubescence, becoming brown before the 
flowers open, like the buds of the War at ah. 
The flowers are about three, or three and a half inches in diameter, 
and open at the same time as those of the Waratah and Atro-rubens. 
They are of a crimson red colour, and resemble the flowers of a large 
Double Hibiscus. The petals are numerous, of an irregular shape, com¬ 
paratively long, narrow, and pointed; all of them are veined. The ex- 
