We are happy in having procured for the entertainment of our botanical friends, a specimen of so singular a plant as the Septas: which, from the conformity of its constituent generic characters in point of numbers, has given it the title it bears and forming for itself an order of plants, in which it stands alone. No plant is better known to botanists than Septas by name; but as yet, there exists only one miserable uncoloured figure of it; which is to be found in the Mantissa of Plukenet, tab. 340, fig. 9. The first plants seen of Septas in England, were purchased in roots from Holland, under the name of Saxifraga Tuberosa, by Messrs. Lee and Kennedy Hammersmith. The beginning of August this year, a drawing was taken from a plant in the collection of G. Hibbert, Esq. Clapham, he having received some fine bulbs of it, in the spring, from his collector at the Cape. There are few plants rival Septas for beauty that are of equal size; it is herbaceous, should be removed from its pot when in a state of inaction, and dried like the Anemonie. The bulbs may be cut, or parted at the time of removal for propagation. [Illustration] PLATE XCI. CAMELLIA JAPONICA. _Var. flore pleno variegato._ _Double-striped Camellia._ CLASS XVI. ORDER VI. _of Schreber’s 8th ed. of Gen. Plant_. _MONODELPHIA POLYANDRIA._ Threads united. Many Chives. ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. CALYX imbricatus, polyphyllus; foliolis interioribus majoribus. EMPALEMENT tiled, many leaved; the inner leaves the largest. SPECIFIC CHARACTER OF VARIETY. Camellia foliis brevioribus, latioribus; floribus plenis, variegatis. Camellia with shorter and broader leaves; flowers double and striped. In hopes that the subject will plead our excuse, in thus again, obtruding a kind of nonentity, in reference to the sexual system, on our scientific friends; and that a figure, of so rare, and beautiful a plant, would be agreeable to all; we have, once more, put by the etiquette of science, for the charms of beauty; yet for this deviation, we think an apology necessary, as it is undoubtedly not conformable to the plan of our undertaking.