PLATE VIII.
CAMELLIA ANEMONE FLORA ALBA;
OR, WHITE WARRATA’H CAMELLIA.
T h is plant was produced with four others from five seeds contained in
a capsule of the Pompone, or Kew Blush Variety, and sown in November
1819. With its cogenitors, one of whom is the subject of Plate III. it
is strongly illustrative of the tendency of Seedling Camellias to differ
from the parent plant and from each other. The second, Plate III. being
a single Rose coloured flower, with the anthers peculiarly large and
perfect.
The third, a fine double flower of a deeper red with dark green foliage
and a complete absence of Anthers, and is the variety before alluded to by
the name of C. Rosa Sinensis. The fourth, somewhat resembling the
second, but inferior, and the surface of the blossom much crumpled. The
fifth produced an inferior semidouble red flower; so that no two were alike
either in color, shape, or foliage.
The leaves of the White Warrata'h nearly resemble the Striped in shape;
the veins are more prominent and the green lighter.
The flower bud previous to expansion is quite round, and presents an
appearance of great promise, which the blossom fully realizes. The outer
leaves are a most transparent white, to which justice cannot be done in a
representation on white paper. The anemone shaped form of the centre
seeming constant, and a White Warrata'h Camellia being a desideratum,
which it not unaptly supplies, is the occasion of the name.