This variety of the Camellia Japonica, is of the same date in our gardens, as the double white, and was introduced through the same medium. As yet this plant is found in but very few collections, and is sold at a very high price; not being of free growth, few cuttings, or grafts can be obtained. It has hitherto, been treated as a hothouse plant; but there is no doubt it is equally hardy with the common sort, upon which, all the plants we have as yet seen, and indeed those that were first imported from China, were grafted; an instance in proof, that horticulture must have, there, attained to a considerable degree of perfection, in the operative part: as well as, that possessing double flowering varieties, of their most beautiful plants, which are only produced by a series of cultivation, for ages; incontestably proves the antiquity of the art, (if any fresh proofs were necessary,) in that country. Our figure was made from a drawing taken partly, from a plant which flowered in August last year, in the collection of J. Hibbert, Esq. Clapham; and partly from one now (April) in full bloom, in the conservatory of R. H. James, Esq. Grosvenor-Place; the only ones we have as yet seen in flower; wherefore the time of flowering cannot as yet be fixed. [Illustration] PLATE XCII. CRINUM SPIRALE. _Spiral-stalked Asphodel Lily._ CLASS VI. ORDER I. _HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA._ Six Chives. One Pointal. GENERIC CHARACTER. CALYX. Involucrum spathæforme, bifolium, oblongum, umbelluliferum, post dehiscentiam reflexum. COROLLA monopetala, infundibuliformis. Tubus oblongus, cylindraceus. Limbus sexpartitus; laciniis lanceolato-linearibus, concavis, reflexis, quarum tres alternæ appendiculo uncinato distinctæ. STAMINA. Filamenta sex, subulata, e basi limbi, longitudine limbi, conniventia. Antheræ oblongæ, lineares, assurgentes, incumbentes. PISTILLUM. Germen inferum. Stylus filiformis, longitudine floris. Stigma trifidum, minimum. PERICARPIUM. Capsula sub-ovata, trilocularis. SEMINA plura. EMPALEMENT. Fence sheath-shaped, two-leaved, oblong, bearing a small umbel, after splitting being reflexed. BLOSSOM one leaf, funnel-shaped. Tube oblong, and cylindrical. Border divided into six segments, that are linearly lance-shaped, concave, and reflexed, of which three alternate ones are marked by a small claw hanging at the lower part. CHIVES. Threads six, awl-shaped, growing from the lower part of the border, and of its length, and inclining together. Tips oblong, linear, turned up at the ends, and lying on the threads. POINTAL. Seed-bud beneath. Shaft thread-shaped, the length of the flower. Summit three-cleft, and very small. SEED-VESSEL. Capsule nearly egg-shaped, three celled. SEEDS many. SPECIFIC CHARACTER. Crinum foliis filiformibus; scapo filiformi, spirali.