Tas, 5152. 
CAMELLIA Sasanqva; var. anemontflora. 
Sasanqua ; Anemone-flowered var. 
Nat. Ord. CAMELLIACE2.—MONADELPHIA POLYANDRIA. 
Gen. Char. (Vide supra, TaB. 2745.) 
CaMELLIA Sasanqua ; fruticosa v. arborescens, ramulis petiolisque puberulis, 
foliis ellipticis v. ovato-lanceolatis acutis subtus subaveniis, floribus inodoris, 
petalis (albis) obcordato-emarginatis vel bilobis, staminibus glabris, ovario 
lanato, stylis connatis, capsula pubescente. Seem. 
Cameira Sasanqua. Thunb. Fl. Jap. p. 273. t. 30. Seem. in Trans. of Linn. 
Soc. v. 23. p. 343 (where copious synonyms are given). 
B. var. flore semipleno. Lind. Bot. Reg. 1815, ¢. 12; 1827, ¢. 1091. Seem. L.c. 
p. 344, not Sims in Bot. Mag. t. 2080, which according to Seemann 18 
Thea maliflora, Seem. l.c. (Camellia roseflora, Hook. Bot. Mag. t. 5044). 
y. anemoniflora ; foliis ovato-lanceolatis longe acuminatis, floribus plenis, petalis 
exterioribus (albis) obovato-oblongis bilobis, staminibus fere omnibus in 
petalos spathulatos (flavos) exterioribus multo brevioribus mutatis, stylis 
(rarissime abortu 4) liberis v. connatis. Seem. 1c. p. 251. (Tas. Nosrr. 
5152.) 
YEtLow Camellia. Fortune, Journ. to Tea Country, p. 339. Gard. Chron. for 
1859, p. 807. 
This is one of the many interesting plants which our Gardens 
owe to Mr. Fortune’s successful voyages to China. ‘That active 
traveller considered it to be a variety of the Waratah Camellia 
group; but Dr. Seemann, with more justice, considers it to be a 
variety of Camellia Sasanqua. “ Hitherto,” writes Dr. Seemann, 
in an Addendum to his elaborate synopsis of the genera and 
species of Camellia and Thea, “ the Waratah form of Camella 
was only known to occur in C. Japonica ; and the yellow colour 
is certainly quite a new feature in this genus, deserving the 
greatest attention of Horticulturists. — That C. Sasanqua has a 
tendency to assume a yellow tinge 1s evident even from the 
single-flowered state, as will be seen in the figure in the Bot. 
Reg. t. 942, where the outer series of stamens displays the prim- 
rose-colour peculiar to the Yellow Camellia. 
Fig. 1. Pistil,—magnified. 
DECEMBER Ist, 1859. 
