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CAMELLIA Sasanqua; j3. stricta : fl. pL cameo. 



Mrs. Palmer's Camellia. 



MONADELPHIA POLYANDRIA. 



Nat. ord. AURANTIA. Jusneu gen. 262. Div. III. Fructus polyaper- 



mus capsularis. Foba non punctata. Genera Aurantiis 

 et Meliis affinia. 



Camelli^jE. Decand. tkeor. ed. 1. 214. 



THEACEiE. Mirbel in nouv. buUet. 3. 382. 



Camellia Sasanqua. Vide supra vol X.fol. 12. 



(0) stricta; ramis calycibusque lanugtnosis; floribus plenia caraeu. 



Camellia Sasanqua; 0; jtore iticamato mulHplici. Curtit's magaz. 2080. 



The plant being known to us only in the imperfect state 

 of a double or rather full flower ; we can scarcely form a 

 conjecture, whether it is a distinct species or a mere variety 

 of some one already known. It seems to differ from japo- 

 nica in being altogether smaller, and in having the upper 

 branches and calyx furnished with a fine downy for ; it dif- 

 fers also from Sasanqua in the habit of growth, which is 

 rigid and compact, and not productive of long twiggy re- 

 cumbent branches, and as Mr. Sweet observes, in not 

 having in any way the outward port of that species. Kemp- 

 fer speaks of his Sasanqua as having red flowers, but then 

 it is very doubtful to what species his plant may belong. 

 When we speak of Sasanquay we mean the plant already 

 figured in this work (vol. 1. fol, 12) under that name; and 

 to that species we do not believe our plant belongs; and 

 merely continue the name because we find it already pub- 

 lished, and are still unable to say where the plant should 

 be placed. It is a very beautiful shrub, and flowers 

 freely and abundantly in April and May. We believe 

 there is no sample of it in Europe, except the one in 

 Mrs. Palmer's collection at Bromley, in Kent, from which 

 our drawing was taken. It had been brought from China 



