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CAMELLIA JAPONICA ALTtLEAFLORA. 
Hollyhock-flowered Camellia. 
Camellia Altlueaflora. Chandler’s Camellia Britannica, pi. 4. 
THIS is another seedling variety, of great merit, which we owe to 
Mr. Chandler, of the Vauxhall Nursery, where it was raised in 1819. 
We first remember to have seen it in the spring of 1826, when it was 
rare, and only little known ; since then, we have had ample means of 
estimating its properties, and can now with confidence recommend it, 
as a variety deserving of a place in every Collection. Its appearance at 
once bespeaks it to have sprung from the Waratih; but, although it 
closely resembles that variety in growth and foliage, it is, nevertheless, 
very different in the colour, size, and form of its flowers. This will be 
obvious to any one the least acquainted with the Waratdh, when they 
see the annexed engraving, which admirably displays the character of 
our present subject. 
The branches are nearly erect, and of a deep, brownish, red colour. 
The leaves are all about the same size and colour as those of the Wara- 
tah, but they differ in being more sharply serrated, as well as in having 
a broader and less conspicuous recurved point. The footstalks are 
round and slender, deeply tinged with brownish red on the exposed side. 
The flower buds are comparatively long, and of nearly an oval 
form, tapering regularly towards the point. At first they are of a dull 
green, but as they begin to open, the scales become thin, and of a pale 
silvery green colour. A few of the inner ones are sometimes tinged 
with red. 
The flowers measure four inches in diameter, and are of a rich 
crimson red colour, a little paler than that of the Waratah, but ranking 
between it and the double red, to which they have some distant 
resemblance. The outer petals are ranged in two rows, and lie tolerably 
flat and even over one another. Each petal, when spread out, is about 
