( 2080 ) 



Camellia Sasanqua 3. Palmer's Double 

 Sasanqua* 



Class and Order. 



MoNADELPHIA PoLYANDRIA. 



Generic Character. 

 Cat. imbricatus, polyphyllus : foliolis interioribus majoribus. 



Specific Character and Synonyms. 



Camellia Sasanqua ; foliis obtuse serratis, floribus termi- 



nalibus subsolitariis, petalis obcordatis. 

 Camellia Sasanqua; foliis obtuse serratis (petalis) emargi- 



natis. Thunb. Jap. 273. t. 30. Willd. Sp. PL 3. p. 



842. Hort. Kew. ed. alt. 4. p. 235. Poiret Encycl. 



Bot. Suppl. 2. p. 48. 

 (*.) flore rubro simplici. 

 Sasanqua. Kcempf. Am. Exot. 853. 

 (|3.) flore incarnato multiplied Heic. No. 2080. 

 (y.) flore albo simplici. 

 Camellia Sasanqua. Thunb. I. c. Bot. Reg. 12. Staunton 



Embassy to China. 2. p. 466. cum figura. 



It appears to us that this beautiful shrub must be a variety 

 of Camellia Sasanqua, not of C. japonica. Its foliage is 

 thinner ; flowers much smaller, and more constantly terminal ; 

 outer petals wider at the end, often obcordate or emarginate. 

 KjEmpfer's Sasanqua is described by him as having red 

 flowers : Thunberg says nothing of any red flowered variety, 

 but describes them as white; in our plant they were of a 

 delicate blush colour. We suspect that in Thunberg's spe- 

 cific character there is an accidental omission of the word 

 petalis, as he describes these, but not the leaves, as being 

 emarginate ; and in his figure, as well as in a specimen from 

 himself in the Banksian Herbarium, the leaves are all pointed, 

 as in our figure, though somewhat more obtusely so. 



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