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CAMELLIA reticulata. 
Captain Rawes’s Camellia. 
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, MONADELPHIA MONOGYNIA. 
Nat. ord. CaMELUIER. 
CAMELLIA. Supra, vol. 1. fol. 12. 
C. reticulata ; foliis oblongis acuminatis reticulatis planis, calyce pentaphyllo 
colorato, ovario sericeo. 
Statura Camellie japonice. Folia rigida, oblonga, utrinque acuminata, 
serrata, plana, venis alte impressis reticulata, non lucida. Flores maximi, 
amene purpurer, Peonie cujusdam facie. Calyx imbricatus, pentaphyllus, 
magis minusve purpureo coloratus. Petala 17-18, subrepanda, sepius inte- 
gerrima, undulata, laxa, Stamina petalis multd breviora, basi serie multi- 
plict irregulariter monadelpha, interioribus subliberis ; sepe in phalangibus 
pluribus, petalis wnterioribus oppositis, dividuntur. Ovarium subrotundum, 
sericeum, 4-loculare, ovulis pluribus distichis. Stylus quadrifidus, glater. 
Stigmata semplicta.—Obs. stylus nunc bi-trifidus, et ovarium bi-triloculare. 
This splendid new species of Camellia has been in this 
country several years, but it did not produce its flowers 
till the spring of 1826, when it blossomed in the Conserva- 
tory of Thomas Carey Palmer, Esquire, at Bromley. To 
this gentleman it had been brought from China, by Captain 
Rawes, in compliment to whom it has received its English 
name. Our drawing was made from plants in the posses- 
sion of the Horticultural Society, by whom they were 
imported in the Lowther Castle, East Indiaman, in 1824, in 
the care of Mr. John Damper Parks. 
We conceive there can be no doubt of this being speci- 
fically distinct from C. japonica, from which it is distin- 
guished by its rigid, flat, strongly reticulated leaves, and 
also by its silky ovarium. The flowers have also a different 
aspect; the petals are much undulated, and irregularly 
