CAMELLIA JAPONICA PUNCTATA. 
Dotted-flowered Camellia. 
Camellia Japonica Punctata. Botanical Register, tab. 1267. 
Gray's Invincible Camellia of the Gardens. 
WE were favoured, in March 1827, with an opportunity of describing 
this highly-prized Camellia, and four others, raised by Mr. Press, 
gardener to Edward Gray, Esq. Harringay House, Hornsey. Shortly 
afterwards they were made known to the public, by a flower of each of 
them being exhibited at a meeting of the Horticultural Society, and by 
a brief description which was subsequently published in the Gardener’s 
Magazine, vol. 2. p. 358, where the variety now before us is mentioned 
as being the finest of all Camellias. A figure of it was given last year 
in the Botanical Register above quoted, to accompany which, we had 
the pleasure of furnishing the following account, at the request of the 
very respectable Editor of that work. 
It was raised in 1824, from seed of the semi-double red, impregna¬ 
ted with the pollen of the single white; to the latter of which it has 
considerable resemblance, both in its growth and habit. 
The leaves are thick, smooth, and of a dark shining green colour, 
usually about three inches and a half long, and two inches broad, con¬ 
vex, and nearly oval, with moderately large serratures, and a sharp, 
recurved point. They are seldom undulated, like the leaves of the single 
white, but have similar prominent veins, and a strong pale green midrib. 
Footstalks nearly an inch long, a little flattened above, otherwise quite 
round, and of the same colour as the midrib and veins. 
Flower buds large, nearly oval, with seven or eight concave, densely 
pubescent, green scales, slightly tinged with yellow and pale red at 
their edges. 
The flowers, when fully expanded, vary from three to four inches in 
diameter, and are of a very delicate blush colour, almost white; striped 
