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ome CAMELLIA japonica. 7. 
Lady (umes Blush Camellia, _ 
MONADELPHIA POLYANDRIA. 
Nat.Ord. Turacen. Mirbel'in nouv. Bulletin. 3.582. 
Avurantia. Jussiew gen. 262. 
Div. III. Fructus -polyspermus capsularis. olia non punctata, 
Genera Aurantiis & Meliis affinia. 
CAMELLIA. Supra vol. 1. fol. 12. 
C. japonica. Supra vol. 1. fol. 22. 
(i) Blush Camellia. Hort. Kew. ed. 2. 4. 235. Andrews’s reposit. 660. 
Jig. 2. 
For an account. of the species we refer to the twenty- 
second article of this work. The present is one of its more 
rare and ornamental varieties; and we believe was intro- 
duced some few years back from China, by the late Lady 
Amelia Hume. It varies in itself from a deeper to a paler 
flesh-colour. The drawing has been made from a plant in 
Mr. Knight’s nursery in the King’s Road, Chelsea. 
The genera, which had been distributed by Jussieu in 
three divisions under his order Aurantia or the Orange- 
tribe, in which Cametira was included, now form four 
distinct orders. Of these, that of the Theacee contains 
only Tura and Cametcra, well-suited congeners in a na- 
tural arrangement, but separated by Linneus in compliance 
with the rule of his system, which establishes the coa- 
lescence of the filaments into one or more parcels, a funda- 
mental difference in one set of classes from another set 
where that character is not present, without regard to “na 
tural affinity. This rule seems to us to trench more re- 
peatedly on the natural relations of species, and to be com- 
pensated by fewer corresponding advantages than any other 
devised by the genius of the author of that professedly 
artificial, but m great part natural as well as profoundly in- 
genious and most useful system. In respect however to 
Tura and Came.wtA, neither of these characters is so com- 
pletely marked in one or the other, but that both genera 
might rank under the same title, without any essential de- 
parture from the above rule, But is the reduction of two or | 
