39. 
CAMELLIA JAPONICA CRASSINERVIS. 
Mr. Kent's Camellia. 
Camellia Japonica Crassinervis. Loddiges’s Botanical Cabinet, t. 1475. 
Transactions of Hort. Soc. vol. 7. Loudon’s Hortus Britannicus, 
p. 293. No. 22. 
THIS beautiful variety is believed to have been imported by Captain 
Rawes, about the year 1820, and to have flowered first in this country 
in the collection of William Kent, Esq. when at Clapton. 
It is so extremely like the Waratah, represented at folio 8, in its 
flowers, as to render a minute description of them unnecessary. The 
only difference appears to be that, in the flowers of the variety now 
before us, the outer petals are more cupped, and paler in colour than 
those of the Waratah. The habit and foliage of the two sorts are, how¬ 
ever, perfectly distinct; so that, when not in flower, they may easily be 
distinguished from one another. The present is of free growth, pecu¬ 
liarly stiff and erect, with pale-coloured branches. The leaves, which 
are nearly flat, are comparatively thinner and rounder than those of 
the Waratah; they are also more veiny on the upper side, as well as 
more sharply serrated, and have short, slightly-flattened (not round) and 
slender footstalks. In colour and other respects the two sorts appear 
the same. 
An excellent figure is given of it in the Botanical Cabinet, above 
referred to, under the name we have adopted. It is, however, generally 
cultivated, and known by the name of “ Kent’s Hexangular,” from its 
having been supposed, on its first introduction, to be the hexangular 
variety so much esteemed by the Chinese. 
