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CAMELLIA. axillaris. 
Pulo-Pinang Camellia. 
MONADELPHIA POLYANDRIA. 
Nat. ord. AuRAntIA. Jussieu gen. 262. Div. IIT. “Fructus poly- 
spermus capsularis. Folia non punctata. Genera Av- 
rantus et Merns affinia. F 
Tueacek. Mirbel in Nouv. Bulletin. 3. 382. 
CAMELLIA. Supra vol. 1. fol. 12. - 
C. axillaris, arboreus; foliis oblongis, acutis, serrulatis; pedunculis axilla- 
ribus, solitariis, unifloris; calyce penta-hexaphyllo sericeo, Roxburgh 
MSS. in Mus. Banks. conservatis; (ex anglico). _ f 
Caulis teres, superné ramosus, ramis gunioribus virentibus. Fol. sparsa, 
patentissima, coriaceo-incrassata, oblonga, cuneato-lanceolata, integra vel 
superne acute serrata, glaberrima, superné versiis brevitér attenuata, inferné 
versis in petiolum brevissemum crassum rolixins attenuata, longiora octounci- 
alia v. ultra, ubi latiora diametro 2 unciarum cum dimidio alteriis vel magis 
novellissima uti ef squame gemmarum subius subtilissime sericea. Cal. 
hexaphyllus, crassiusculus, subcartilagineus, % partes unci@ transversus, cam= 
anulato-rotatus, extis sericeus, squamis pluribus caducis cinctus; foliolis 
@qualibus, subrotundis, convexis, superne scarioso-fuscis, summo margine 
 fisso-emarginatis. Cor. alba, aliqua suffusa flavedine, imbricato-rotata, sub- 
a@qualis diametro subbiunciali, hexapetala, petalis lato-obcordatis, emarginatis, 
superné recurvis, bast brevitér angustatis; $ exterioribus Jjirmioribus, “sub- 
 -majoribus, vie undulatis, 3 interioribus tenerioribus, undulatis. Pedunculi 
crassi, sericei, brevissimi, pluriés breviores calyce, lapsarum squamarum 
vestigiis cicatrizatt. Anth. in nostro specimine polline feré destitute. Germen 
non inspeximus. Stylus erectus, strictus, columnaris, subexsuperans stamina; 
stigmata $, virentia, subbifida? patentia. 1 
An unpublished species, lately received from the Bo- 
tanic Garden at Calcutta, where it was introduced by 
Dr. Roxburgh from Pulo-Pinang, or, as it is more commonly 
called amongst us, Prince of Wales’s Island. It makes 
the third species by which this popular genus is known in 
our collections. All three are natives of the Indian re- 
_ gions of Asia. 
The drawing was taken from a plant at the nursery of 
Messrs. Whitley, Brames, and Milne, Fulham, where it was 
cultivated in the hothouse and flowered in December for 
the first time. 
According to Dr. Roxburgh an arborescent shrub; in 
the plant we saw not exceeding three feet. Stem round, 
