_, under "Camel")
throws doubt on this explanation, and assumes that the more violent
hyperbole is intended. There is a various reading [Greek: Khamilos]
(cable) for [Greek: Khamaelos] (camel), but Cheyne, in the _Ency.
Biblica_, rejects this (see CABLE).

CAMELFORD, THOMAS PITT, 1ST BARON (1737-1793), English politician and
art patron, was a nephew of the 1st earl of Chatham. He sat in
parliament from 1761 till 1784, siding against his uncle and following
George Grenville, who was also a relative; and in 1784 he was raised to
the peerage. He dabbled in architecture and the arts generally, and was
a prominent figure in the artistic circles of his day. His son THOMAS
PITT, 2nd Baron Camelford (1775-1804), who succeeded him in 1793, had an
adventurous and misspent career in the navy, but is principally
remembered for his death in a duel with Mr Best on the 10th of March
1804, the title becoming extinct.

CAMELLIA, a genus or subgenus of evergreen trees or shrubs belonging to
the natural order Ternstroemiaceae, with thick dark shining leaves and
handsome white or rose-coloured flowers. The name _Camellia_ was given
by Linnaeus in honour of George Joseph Camellus or Kamel, a Moravian
Jesuit who travelled in Asia and wrote an account of the plants of the
Philippine Island, Luzon, which is included in the third volume of John
Ray's _Historia Plantarum_ (1704). Modern botanists are agreed that the
tea-plant, placed by Linnaeus in a separate genus, _Thea_, is too nearly
allied to _Camellia_ to admit of the two being regarded as distinct
genera. _Thea_ and _Camellia_ are therefore now considered to represent
one genus, which has been generally called _Camellia_, but more
correctly _Thea_, as this name was the earlier of the two. Under the
latter view _Camellia_ is regarded as a subgenus or section of _Thea_.
It contains about eight species, natives of India, China and Japan. Most
of the numerous cultivated forms are horticultural products of _C.
japonica_, a native of China and Japan, which was introduced into Europe
by Lord Petre in 1739. The wild plant has red flowers, recalling those
of the wild rose, but most of the cultivated forms are double. In the
variety _anemonaeflora_ nearly all the stamens have become transformed
into small petaloid structures which give the flower the appearance of a
double anemone.

Another species, _C. reticulata_, a native of Hongkong, is also prized
for its handsome flower