Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Camellia \Ca*mel"li*a\, n. [NL., after Georg Josef Kamel, or
   Camelli, a Jesuit who is said to have brought it from the
   East.] (Hort.)
   An ornamental greenhouse shrub ({Thea japonica}) with glossy
   evergreen leaves and roselike red or white double flowers.