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CAMELLIA JAPONIC A WELBANKII. 
Captain Welbank's White Camellia. 
Camellia Japonica Welbankii. Loddiges’s Botanical Cabinet, t. 1198. 
Transactions of the Horticultural Society, Vol. 7. 
Camellia Japonica Luteo-albicans. Botanical Register, t. 708. 
THIS sort is very different from any of the other white flowering kinds. 
It is of a robust habit, and grows very stiff and erect. The branches 
are of a dark brown colour when young, but change and become paler 
as they grow old. The foliage, from its convexity, is so peculiar as to 
give a character to this variety, by which it may always be readily dis¬ 
tinguished. It does not appear to flower freely; on which account, 
perhaps, it is not so much cultivated as it deserves. 
The leaves are ovate, from three and a half, to four inches 
long, and rather more than two inches broad; similar in colour to those 
of the Pompone, but much more convex, and not so sharply serrated 
or pointed. The midrib is prominent and strong, particularly on the 
lower side of the leaf. The footstalk is about half an inch long, nearly 
round, and of a pale green colour. 
The flower buds are large, roundish-oval, covered with several broad 
and round pale green pubescent scales. 
The flowers are of a yellowish white colour, and about three, or 
three and a half inches in diameter. They may be said to rank between 
the Double White and the Pompone, assimilating more with the latter 
than the former, but perfectly distinct from either. The petals are not 
arranged in any sort of order, so that the flower has a confused appear¬ 
ance. The exterior petals are of a roundish form, from an inch to an 
inch and a half in diameter, much undulated, but only a little recurved 
or divided at their extremity. The centre petals are irregularly shaped; 
sometimes they resemble those of the Pompone, but are often twisted 
and arranged in tufts, with several parcels of imperfect stamina inter- 
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