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Calceolaria pinnata.  Pinnated Slipper-wort.

Class and Order.

Diandria Monogynia.

Generic Character.

Cor. ringens inflata. Caps. 2-locularis, 2-valvis. Cal. 4-partitus aequalis.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

CALCEOLARIA pinnata foliis pinnatis. Lin.  Syst.  Vegetab. p. 64.

CALCEOLARIA foliis scabiosae vulgaris. Fewill Peruv. 3, t. 12. fig. 7.

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There being no English name to this plant, we have adopted that of Slipper-wort, in imitation of Calceolaria, which is derived from Calceolus, a little shoe or slipper.

This species of Calceolaria is one of the many plants introduced into our gardens, since the time of MILLER:  it is an annual, a native of Peru, and, of course, tender:  though by no means a common plant in our gardens, it is as easily raised from seed as any plant whatever.  These are to be sown on a gentle hot-bed in the spring; the seedlings, when of a proper size, are to be transplanted into the borders of the flower-garden, where they will flower, ripen, and scatter their seeds; but being a small delicate plant, whose beauties require a close inspection, it appears to most advantage in a tan stove, in which, as it will grow from cuttings, it may be had to flower all the year through, by planting them in succession.

This latter mode of treatment is used by Mr. HOY, Gardener to his Grace of Northumberland, at Sion-House, where this plant may be seen in great perfection.

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Camellia Japonica.  Rose Camellia.

Class and Order.

Monadelphia Polyandria.

Generic Character.

Calyx imbricatus, polyphyllus:  foliolis interioribus majoribus.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

CAMELLIA japonica foliis acute serratis acuminatis. Lin.  Syst. 
Vegetab. ed. 14. p. 632. Thunberg Fl.  Japon. t. 273.

TSUBAKI Kempfer Amoen. 850. t. 851.

ROSA chinensis. Ed. av. 2. p. 67. t. 67.

THEA chinensis pimentae jamaicensis folio, flore roseo. Pet.  Gaz. t. 33. fig. 4.

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This most beautiful tree, though long since figured and described, as may be seen by the above synonyms, was a stranger to our gardens in the time of MILLER, or at least it is not noticed in the last edition of his Dictionary.

It is a native both of China and Japan.

THUNBERG, in his Flora Japonica, describes it as growing every where in the groves and gardens of Japan, where it becomes a prodigiously large and tall tree, highly esteemed by the natives for the elegance of its large and very variable blossoms, and its evergreen leaves; it is there found with single and double flowers, which also are white, red, and purple, and produced from April to October.