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CAMELLIA JAPONICA SPLENDENS. 
Mr. Allnutt’s Splendid Camellia. 
Camellia Japonica Coccinea. Loddiges’s Botanical Cabinet, t.1231. Loudon’s 
Hortus Britannicus, p. 293. No. 28. 
THIS much-admired variety was raised many years ago, by John 
Allmitt, Esq. of Clapham Common, in whose garden the original plant 
has attained a large size, and is now growing very luxuriantly. We 
believe it is one of the first Camellias that was obtained from seed in 
this country. 
The habit of the plant is similar to that of the Single Red, but it 
seems to be rather stronger, and more bushy. The branches are upright, 
round, and twiggy, and of a deep brown colour. 
The leaves are comparatively thin and narrow, much recurved at 
the point and edges, which are sharply and rather deeply serrated. 
Their usual size is about three inches and a half long, and two inches 
broad near the base, from which they taper gradually towards the point. 
Their colour is a rich deep green, with a prominent pale-coloured mid¬ 
rib and footstalk; the latter, which is nearly round, seldom exceeds 
half an inch in length. 
The flower buds are moderately long and pointed, of a deep green 
until near expansion, when they become paler, and occasionally tinged 
with deep red. The scales are pointed and thin, but less pubescent 
than those of the other varieties we have described. 
The flowers are particularly shewy, and produced in great abun¬ 
dance upon young plants, as well as old ones, which renders it a most 
desirable variety for every collection. They are of a brilliant red colour, 
and measure about three inches in expansion. The petals are not very 
numerous, but from the manner in which they are arranged in the cen¬ 
tre, they cause the flowers to have the appearance of being perfectly 
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