centre of the flower, it is common for many of them to be but partly 
transformed, one half of the anther being' dilated and coloured, while the 
other half appears almost perfect, and of a deep yellow colour. Similar 
instances of this curious metamorphosis are met with in the flowers of 
other Camellias we have described. They present a striking illustration 
of the generally received opinion, that stamens change into petals, instead 
of petals changing into stamens, &c.:—a theory some years ago advanced 
by Professor Lindley, in an ingenious paper communicated by him to 
the Horticultural Society, and printed in the sixth volume of their 
Transactions. 
We may here notice a variety which corresponds, almost in every 
respect, with the one we have just described. It was raised by Mr. 
Knight, of the King’s Road, Chelsea, and is commonly known by the 
name of Knight’s Carnation Waratdh. A figure of it will be found in 
Loddiges’s Botanical Cabinet, fol. 1463, under the name of Camellia 
Japonica Knightii. It is the variety of No. 19, dianthijlora, of Loudon’s 
Hortus Britannicus, a work of great merit, and one of the most com¬ 
plete of its kind which has ever appeared. . 
