1091 
CAMELLIA Sasanqua flore pleno. 
Double White Sasanqua Camelha. 
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MONADELPHIA POLYANDRIA. 
Nat. ord. CAMELLIER. 
CAMELLIA. Supra, vol. 1. fol. 12. 
Div. II. Thea. 
C. Sasanqua ; foliis ovato-oblongis obtuse serratis, floribus terminalibus sub- 
solitariis, petalis obcordatis. -Decand. prodr. 1. 529. 
C. Sasanqua. Thunb. jap. 273. t. 30. Supra, vol. 1. fol. 12. 
8. flore pleno. 
This is the true double variety of Camellia Sasanqua, 
which has been so long sought after by collectors, and 
which is essentially distinct from the plant given for it 
at fol. 547 of this work, which is now known under the 
name of Camellia maliflora. See fol. 1078. 
It was imported for the Horticultural Society, in 1823, 
by Captain Drummond, and produced its flowers for the 
first time in this country in the early part of December 
1826. In its general habit and appearance it differs but 
little from the common Sasanqua. The stem is round, 
nearly smooth, and of a deep brown colour, with numerous 
round, twiggy, pendulous, alternate branches, thickly 
clothed with very short silky pubescence. Leaves alter- 
nate, elliptic, lanceolate, serrate, rather larger than those 
of the common Sasanqua, usually 24 inches long, and 
1i inch broad; coriaceous, smooth, and flat; of a dark 
and somewhat shining green on the upper side, but con- 
siderably paler and very glossy beneath ; midrib prominent, 
slightly villous; petioles short, rounded on the lower side, 
and somewhat channelled above, villous, brownish-green. 
