terior ones are seldom an inch in breadth when spread out, and do not 
lie flat over one another, but are much undulated, and unequal in length, 
which causes the flower to have a starry- appearance. The interior petals 
are also undulated, and pointed, with their edges compressed, so as 
almost to meet. They are nearly upright, and diminish in size towards 
the centre of the flower, which is not elevated, although it is more filled 
with petals than in those dowers where it is pitted. Sometimes the dower 
has a different appearance, and is then mistaken for another variety, 
the petals being smaller than those we have described, similar in colour 
and formation, but fewer in number, and more regularly arranged, with 
several parcels of stamina in the centre. 
It was first imported in 1794, by Sir Robert Preston, Bart, of Val- 
leyfield, who then lived at Woodford in Essex, where he possessed a 
choice collection of plants, which he cultivated most successfully. It has 
been dgured in three of the works above quoted, but in neither of them 
is it mentioned as being like Greville’s Reel Camellia, or that a variety 
similar to it was cultivated under that name. 
