CAMELLIA. 
four feet. It is generally cultivated, in its native 
country, for the sake of its oleiferous seeds; it 
succeeds best in a red sandy soil, frequently at- 
taining a height of eight feet; and it carries a 
profusion of white flowers from May till July. 
Its seeds, as well as those of all the other species, 
are bruised, stewed, and pressed, in order to 
yield a fine oil; and this oil is highly valued by 
the Chinese, and very generally used in their 
domestic economy.—The Kissi camellia, C. Kiss?, 
was introduced from Nepaul in 1823; it usually 
attains a height of about ten feet; it carries 
white flowers from. May till July; and though 
much inferior to the common camellia, is a very 
handsome plant.—The eurya-like species, C. 
| euryotdes, was introduced from China in 1824; 
| it usually attains a height of about four feet ; it 
carries a white flower in May and June; and it 
belongs to the same grade of beauty as the olei- 
ferous species.—The reticulated camellia, C. retc- 
| culata, was introduced from China in 1824; it 
usually grows to the height of about six feet; 
and it has a superb appearance, and produces 
red flowers from April till June. 
The varieties of Camellia Japonica introduced 
| from China, as noticed in the last edition of Lou- 
don’s Hortus Britannicus, are the single red, rubra; 
the single white, alba; the semidouble red, sem- 
duplex ; the double red, rubro-plena ; Middlemist’s 
flesh-colour, carnea; the myrtle-leaved, myrtv- 
folia ; Loddiges’ dark red, atrorubens ; the Wara- 
tah or anemone - flowered, anemoniflora ;* the 
variegated Waratah, versecolor ; the poeony-flow- 
ered, peonieflorm; the double striped, variegata ; 
the Kew blush pompone, pomponia; Hume’s blush 
or the flavescent, flavescens ; the double white, 
|| alba plena; Welbank’s, Welbankii ; Lady Long’s 
involute, znvoluta ; the variable white Waratah, 
 variabilis ; the hexangular, hevangularis ; the 
carnation - flowered Waratah, dianthiflora ; the 
pale yellow, Cuteo-alba; the fringed white, fim- 
briata ; the thick-nerved, crassinervis ; the ex- 
panded, expansa ; the shell-flowered, conchiflora ; 
L. Campbell’s red-stemmed, rubricaulis ; the long- 
leaved, longifolia ; the aucuba-leaved, aucube- 
folia; the scarlet, coccinea; the great-flowered, 
grandiflora ; the dwarf, nana; the incarnate, 
incarnata ; the blush Waratah, élunda; Ross’s, 
Rossii; the spatulate, spatulata; the straw-col- 
oured, straminea ; Rawes’s showy, speciosa; the 
imbricated, imbricata ; the white semidouble, alba 
semiduplex ; Reeves’s, Reevesiana; the rose-like- 
flowered, rosea; Parks’s, Parksti ; and Sabini’s, 
Sabiniana. British seedlings and hybrids are 
vastly too numerous, and in many instances far 
* The name Waratah is given to several of the 
varieties, in allusion to the resemblance of the cen- 
tral petals to those of the Waratah plant of Aus- 
tralia, Telopea speciosissima; and the double Wara- 
tah, the double white Waratah, and the double 
striped Waratah, are at once free-growers, free- 
flowerers, and very splendid varieties; while the single 
Waratah produces seeds, from which some of the 
| best camellia grafting stocks are obtained. 
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too inferior, to admit of enumeration; but a 
few of the earliest and best are Aiton’s large 
single red, the hollyhock - flowered, the coral- 
flowered, the splendid, the flowery, the white 
anemone - flowered, the striped Waratah, the 
rose of the world, the single red spotted, Gray’s 
spotted, Press’s eclipse, Press’s single red, Colvill’s, 
Sweets’, Donckelaer’s, the compact - flowered, 
Knight’s, Elphinstone’s, Woods’s, Lady Wilton’s, 
and Press’s double rose; and the first six of these 
possess the celebrity of having been the earliest 
group of British camellias, and were figured, in a 
quarto volume by Messrs. Chandler and Buck- 
ingham of London, under the title of Camellia 
Britannica. 
An ingenious classification of camellias, made 
by the Abbe Berlese, distributes all the known 
varieties into one-coloured flowering plants and 
two-coloured flowering plants, and each of these 
divisions into a first scale which commences with 
pure white, passes through rose-colour, cherry- 
colour, and amaranth, and ends with crimson, 
and into a second scale which commences with 
carnation yellow or dirty white, passes through 
flesh-colour and orange-red, and ends with dark 
crimson. One-coloured flowers of both scales ex- 
hibit, in each instance, only one colour, as white, 
rose, cherry, flesh-colour, amaranth, orange-red, 
crimson, and dark crimson; but two-coloured 
flowers, have, in each case, a ground colour, 
varied with some other colour of its own scale, 
as a white ground varied by a rose-colour, a rose- 
ground varied by a cherry-colour, or a ‘cherry- | 
ground varied by a white. Of one-coloured 
flowers of the first scale, the Abbe Berlese enu- 
merates, aS pure white, C. alba simplex, alba 
plena, amabilis, axillaris, anemoniflora, alba plena, 
and twenty-two others; as of a clear rose-colour, 
C. Aitonii, amplissima, Apollina, dahlizeflora, and 
twenty-two others; as of a clear cherry-red colour, | 
C. aucubzefolia, Amherstia, amcena, augusta, and 
ninety-two others; and as of a deep cherry red | 
colour, C. Alexandriana, althzeiflora, atroviolacea, 
and fifty-one others. 
the second scale, he enumerates, as of carnation 
colour, C. alba lutescens, carnea, incarnata, and 
Kew blush; and as of orange-red colour, more or 
less deep, C. anemoniflora, sinensis, atrorubens, 
augusta rubra aurantiaca, and a considerable || 
number of others. Of two-coloured flowers of 
the first scale, he enumerates, as having a white 
ground, striped or blotched with rose, C. Banksii, 
dianthiflora striata plena, delicatissima, elegan- 
tissima, gloria mundi, imperialis, and ten others ; 
as having a rose-ground, streaked or dotted, with 
cherry-red, C. Colvillii vera, Gray’s Venus, Gray’s 
eclipse, splendida, and eight others; and as hay- 
ing a cherry ground, more or less deep, varied 
with white, C. Aglae, Adonidea, dianthifiora, and 
thirteen others. Of two-coloured flowers of the 
second scale, he names, as having a yellowish 
flesh-coloured ground, streaked with white, C. 
Sweetii vera; and as having an orange-red 
Of one-coloured flowers of | 
