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| | INTRODUCTION |
 | | Camellia cultivars are freely distributed and interchanged throughout the Camellia growing areas of the world, so that the Register must be maintained on a truly international basis, and it is only by the continuing co-operation of all concerned that this object may be achieved. |
 | | Rarely, if ever, is it possible to state categorically that a particular cultivar is extinct, and, in any case, once a name is published it is on record for all future time as a potential source of confusion if any other plant from the same group is allowed to assume the same epithet. |
 | | Following the cultivar group name is the name of the author of the first valid listing, with the title of the publication, together with the date and page number, where this information is known. |
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