342 DR. SEEMANN’S SYNOPSIS OF THE 
San sa, vulgo Jamma Tsubakki, Kæmpf. Amoen. Exot. p. 850, cum ic. p. 851 (1712). 
Thea Camellia, Hoffm. ex Steudl. Nom. Bot. i. p. 265 (1841). 
Cameilia Kæmpferiana, Reboul, Atti della Tercia Riunione, p. 494, ex Wlprs. Ann. ii. p. 178 (1851-52), 
Nomina vernacul. In Japonia, “ Tsubaki, Jabu tsubaki” (i.e, Camellia sylvestris), a Chinensibus 
* San tsja” (i.e. Thea montana) vocatur. 
Geogr. Distr. Throughout Japan (Kempfer! Thunberg | Siebold !), forming dense woods, which, accord- 
ing to Siebold, look like those of our young Beeches ; cultivated in China and in European gardens. 
I have not seen wild specimens of this species from China, nor am I acquainted with 
any account of its having been found wild there. Champion thought he discovered it 
at Hongkong; but the species he took for Japonica turns out to be quite a distinct one 
(C. Hongkongensis, Seem.). The Chinese have from time immemorial cultivated C. 
Japonica in their gardens. In Europe it became known in the beginning of the eighteenth 
century, and the first figure of it was published in 1702 in Petiver's * Gazophylacium. 
Strange to add, though there are thousands of representations of the various varieties of 
this Camellia, yet we do not possess a single plate exhibiting the normal state of it. The 
form figured by Siebold and Zuccarini in their ‘Flora Japonica’ has semi-double 
flowers. 
2. C. Honekoncensts (Tab. LX.) ; arborea; ramulis petiolisque glabris, foliis ovato-lan- 
ceolatis vel lanceolatis acuminatis, subtus venis tenuibus distinctis, floribus inodoris, 
petalis (rubris) obovatis emarginatis, staminibus glabris, ovario stylisque liberis 
lanatis; capsula (glabra?). (v.v. Sp.) | 
Camellia Hongkongensis, Seem. MSS. 
C. Japonica, Champ. in Hooker’s Journ. of Bot. and Kew Misc. iii. p. 309 (1851), non Linn. !; Champ. 
in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxi. p. 112 (1853) ; Seem. Bot. Herald, p. 367. n. 68 (1857). 
Geogr. Distr. Cochinchina-Tourane (Gaudichaud, n. 271, in Herb. Par. !); Island of Hongkong (Eyre! 
Bowring! Champion! Hance! Seemann N. | 
This species was discovered in January 1837 by Gaudichaud in Cochinchina, and about 
1849 by Lieut.-Colonel Eyre, of the Royal Artillery, in the island of Hongkong, where it 
grows In company with Castanea concinna, Quercus bambusæfolia, Thea salicifolia, & ; 
it was afterwards collected by Bowring, Champion, Hance, and myself. Only three 
troos are known to exist in Hor kong. In a paper read November 5, 1850, before the 
Linnean Society, and published in 1853 in our Transactions, Capt. Champion took it for 
the true Camellia Japonica of Linnæus; and so did Mr. Bentham and myself in ow 
respective enumerations of the plants of Hongkong. A more recent examination and 
comparison with a large set of specimens of the genuine C. Japonica, Linn., has, bow- 
ever, led me to consider the Camellia found by Gaudichaud and Eyre as indeed allied to, 
but very distinct from, C. Japonica, Linn. It differs from C. Japonica in the shape ad 
dark-green colour of its leaves, in its free styles and woolly ovary; otherwise it has very — 
~~ habit of the common. single pink variety of C. Japonica, and is easily mistaken Ds 
or that species if the important differences pointed out be overlooked. Champion de 
scribes the capsule as * smooth,” thereby meaning most probably “ glabrous," as he his 
previously described that of C. ectabili xim r that, it is more 
than an inch in diameter. 7 is as * sericeous,” and he adds tha 
