C A M E L L IA JAPO NICA RO SS II.
M r . R o s s 's Camellia.
Camellia Ja p o n ica R o ssii. L o d d ig e s ’s B o ta n ic a l C a b in e t, 1 . 1737. L o u d o n ’s
H o r tu s B r ita n n ic u s , p. 293. N o . 33.
THIS desirable variety was named in honour of th e late Mr. William
Ross, F.L.S. aud H .S ., a respectable Nurseryman a t Stoke Newington,
of whom a b rie f memoir will be found in the Gardener’s Magazine,
vol. i, p. 95, and a notice of his Camellia in th e same volume, p. 211,
u nder th e name of Ross’s Camellia Gloriosa.
I t is a free growing sort, with remarkably large dark green leaves,
coarsely b u t not deeply serrated, resembling, in many respects, the
foliage of Corallina, figured a t folio 10. The footstalks are similar to
those of its parent, the Waratáh; round and slender, aud of a pale
brownish green.
The flower buds are large, oval, and pointed ; of a deep green, until
near expansion, when they become paler, and very long.
The flowers are generally very large and shewy, often measuring-
four inches in diameter. They have a considerable resemblance iu
th e ir form to those of Elegans, represented a t folio 26 ; b u t in colour
they are of a much deeper, and darker red. All the petals are faintly
v ein ed ; th e outer ones, which expand nearly flat, are from twelve to
seventeen in number, arranged in two or three distinct rows round the
smaller ones which occupy th e centre. The former are each roundish-
oblong, about an inch broad, and deeply indented a t the extremitj’.
The in n e r petals are seldom more than one-third the length of the
others, and are similar to those o f the Waratáh, being narrow, pointed,
and incurved, b u t ranged with less regularity.
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