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CAMELLIA MALIFLORA,
A pple -B lossomed Camellia.
Camellia Malijlora, fo liis o b o v a tis a cum in a tis n itid is co n v ex is, r am u lis petioliscjue
pu b e s c en tib u s , o v a rio g la b ro . L in d le y .
Camellia Sasa n q u a , /3. P a lm e r 's D ouble S asanqua. B o ta n ic a l M a g a z in e , t . 2080.
Camellia Sasa n q u a , /3. s tr ic ta : f l . p i. carneo. M rs. P a lm e r 's Camellia. B o ta n ic a l
R e g is te r , t. 547.
Camellia S a sa n q u a pleno-carneo. L o d d ig e s ’s B o ta n ic a l C a b in e t, t . 1134.
THIS plant, although figured and described in the works above referred
to, as being a variety of Camellia Sasanqua, is unquestionably very
distinct from th a t species. In growth it is ei*ect and slender, and
ibmis a compact bushy shrub, which in the spring months is covered
with a multitude of delicate purplish-red flowers. The branches arc
round, twiggy, erect, densely clothed with pubescence, and of a dark
brown colour.
Tlie leaves are obovate, seldom more than two inches long, and
one inch broad in the widest part, much pointed and recuiwed, with
numerous small sharp serratures. They are of a th in substance, compared
with those of the Camellia Sasanqua, or Camellia Japónica: to
the latter perhaps they have the nearest resemblance, and like them are
of a dai'k shining green; b u t they have a pale-coloured villous midrib,
and short round villous foot-stalks.
The flower buds are oval, and b lu n t a t the point, with comparatively
large roundish-cordate, pubescent, brownish-green scales.
The flowers vary from one and a h alf to two inches in diameter,
and are remarkably handsome, being very regular in their formation,
and of a pale purplish-red colour. The outer petals expand quite
flat, some o f them indeed are often a little reflexed, b u t so arrangetl
as to give a nice even circumference to the whole flower; they are
each about three-fourths of an inch broad, nearly round, or b u t slightly
divided a t their extremity, and of a darker’ colour than the interior
jietals, which are very pale, excepting a t their base, where they have
the same purplish tinge as the exterior ones. In general, the centre
petals rise upright, and a feiv of them a good deal resemble stamens,