2-3; calyx herbaceous, imbricate, with about 9 broad ovate 
deciduous leaflets ; petals 5-7, round, flat, emarginate, longer 
than the calyx, substantial, fleshy, grown together by 
an extended base; filaments very many, grown to each other 
at the base and to the concrete part of the corolla, con- 
verging into a hollow cylinder, shorter than the petals; 
anthers roundish, yellow ; style filiform, somewhat angular, 
length of the stamens ; stigmas 3. : 
We have enumerated the eleven varieties of this species, 
as given in the last edition of the Hortus Kewensis, adding 
a twelfth. The common red one was first cultivated by 
Lord Petre in 1739. The single-flowered of this, now 
serves for little else than as the stock to ingraft or inarch 
the rare ones upon, most of which are of very recent intro- 
duction ; and by their number prove the industry of the 
florist of the parts they come from. All will live in the: 
open air in England, but the natural time of flowering: 
falling in a season too inclement in these parts for the ex- 
pansion of the bloom, they can never be seen in perfection 
in any place but the conservatory ; where they thrive best 
when planted in the ground; and we are told the single 
red one has there attained the height of fifteen feet, witha 
head in proportion. We have never seen or heard of a 
single-flowered white variety. Loureiro, in his Flora of. 
Cochinchina, has a Camellia drupifera, most probably not 
specifically distinct from japonica; this he describes as hav- 
ing white bloom. His description is however too vague to 
ascertain their specific identity. 
The drawing was made in the nursery of Messrs. Lee and. 
Kennedy, at Hammersmith, in February last. 
