CAMELLIA JAPONICA FLORIDA. 
Cluster-flowering Camellia. 
Camellia Japonica Florida. Chandler’s Camellia Britannica, pi. 7. 
IN the work we have just quoted, this variety is stated to have been 
produced from seed of the Waratah, fertilised with the pollen of the 
Peeony-flowered. To the former it has so great a resemblance, in habit 
and foliage, as to render it almost unnecessary for us to enter minutely 
into detail concerning them. We may briefly observe, that the leaves are 
rather longer and narrower than those of the Waratah, and of a paler 
colour; they are likewise more recurved at the point and edges. The 
principal parts of distinction are in the flower and buds : the latter, 
although similar to the Waratah in size and form, differ in being of a 
dull pale green, instead of a dark chocolate colour. 
The flowers are produced in great abundance at the extremity of the 
branches, and open pretty early in the season. They are not large, but 
are very beautiful, being usually about three inches in diameter, and of 
a deep rose colour; intermediate between the deep red of the Waratah, 
and the bright rose of the Pseony-flowered. The arrangement of the 
petals is somewhat similar to that of the variety represented at folio 26 ; 
the outer ones occupying three rows, and expanding nearly flat; there 
is, however, this difference, that in the flowers of the variety just alluded 
to, the rows are distinct, or a little separated from one another, whereas 
in those of the one now before us, they are very closely imbricated. Each 
of the petals is round, slightly indented at the extremity, and rather 
more than an inch in diameter. The inner ones are small, roundish 
oblong, and compactly arranged, like those of the Warat&h, but not 
