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CAMELLIA JAPONICA ROSSII. 
Mr. Ross's Camellia. 
Camellia Japonica Rossii. Loddiges’s Botanical Cabinet, 1.1737. Loudon’s 
Hortus Britannicus, p. 293. No. 33. 
THIS desirable variety was named in honour of the late Mr. William 
Ross, F.L.S. and H.S., a respectable Nurseryman at Stoke Newington, 
of whom a brief memoir will be found in the Gardener’s Magazine, 
vol. i, p. 95, and a notice of his Camellia in the same volume, p. 211, 
under the name of Ross’s Camellia Gloriosa. 
It is a free growing sort, with remarkably large dark green leaves, 
coarsely but not deeply serrated, resembling, in many respects, the 
foliage of Corallina, figured at folio 10. The footstalks are similar to 
those of its parent, the Waratdh ; round and slender, and of a pale 
brownish green. 
The flower buds are large, oval, and pointed; of a deep green, until 
near expansion, when they become paler, and very long. 
The flowers are generally very large and shewy, often measuring 
four inches in diameter. They have a considerable resemblance in 
their form to those of Elegans, represented at folio 26 ; but in colour 
they are of a much deeper, and darker red. All the petals are faintly 
veined; the outer ones, which expand nearly flat, are from twelve to 
seventeen in number, arranged in two or three distinct rows round the 
smaller ones which occupy the centre. The former are each roundish- 
oblong, about an inch broad, and deeply indented at the extremity. 
The inner petals are seldom more than one-third the length of the 
others, and are similar to those of the Waratdh, being narrow, pointed, 
and incurved, but ranged with less regularity. 
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