344 DR. SEEMANN’S SYNOPSIS OF THE 
Camellia Sasanqua, Thunb. Fl. Japon. p. 273. t. 30 (1784) ; Cav. Diss. vi. p. 306. t. 160 (1790) ; Staunt, 
Embas. to China, ii, p. 466 cum ic. (1797) ; Bot. Reg. t. 12 (1815), t. 1091 (1827) ; Lodd. Bot. Cab, 
t.1275 (1827); Booth in Hort. Soc. Trans. vii. p. 521 (1830) ; Sieb. et Zucc. Fl. Jap. p. 158. t. 83 
(1835-44) ; Chois. in Mém. Soc. Genéve, xiv. i. p. 147 (1855); Seem. in Bonpl. vi. p. 278 (1858). 
Sasangua, Kempf. Delineat. plant. Japon. (MSS. in Mus. Brit.) fig. 25; Amoen. Exot. p. 853, ex parte 
1712). 
len RER Abel, Journ. in China, p. 174 cum ic., App. p. 363 (1818); Lindl. in Bot. Reg. t. 942 
(1825); Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 1065 (1825); Booth in Trans. Hort. Soc. vii. p.524 (1830); Chois. in 
Mém. Soc. Genève, xiv. i. p.147 (1855) ; Seem. in Bonpl. vi. p. 278 (1858). 
Thea oleosa, Lour. Fl. Cochinch. p. 339 (1790) ; Chois. in M&m. Soc. Genöve, xiv. i. p. 156 (1855). 
Thea longifolia, Nois., et Thea Sasanqua, Nois., teste Steudl. 
Nomina vernacul. Nomen Cochinchinense, teste Loureiro, “ Yeu-cha.” Nomen Chinense, teste Abel, 
“ Tscha-Yeoa,” teste Loureiro, * Che-deau,” et teste Staunton, * Cha-whaw.” Nomen Japonicum, 
teste Siebold, * Sasankwa.” Nomen Japon.-chinense, teste Siebold, * Tsja-bai.” 
B. var. flore semi-pleno, Lindl. Bot. Reg. t. 12 (1815), t. 1091 (1827); Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 1275 (1827). 
Geogr. Distr. Japan (Thunberg in Mus. Brit.! Siebold). China, Prov. of Kiangsi (Sir George Staunton 
in Mus. Brit. !); Prov. of Kwangton (Sir G. Staunton in Mus. Brit.! Adel, Loureiro); Chusan 
(Dr. Cantor in Herb. Bth.!); Loo-choo (C. Wright, n. 28!). Cultivated in European gardens. 
Camellia Sasanqua, Thunb., and C. oleifera, Abel, are in most works regarded as distinct 
species. They are here united, because I could not find a single character by which they 
could be distinguished from each other. . I have also added as a synonym the doubtful 
Thea oleosa of Loureiro, which, from the description given by its author, agrees tolerably 
well with the old C. Sasanqua. I am the more convinced that this identification is 
correct, as there are only two Camelliaceous plants that yield seeds sufficiently oily to be 
used for economic purposes, viz. Camellia Sasanqua and C. drupifera; and Loureiro states 
emphatically that his Thea oleosa yields an oil and grows wild in the province of Canton, 
—a fact fully agreeing with what we know of C. Sasanqua. What is preserved in the 
Parisian Museum as the original specimen of Thea oleosa, Lour., is Thea Chinensis, Var. 
Bohea. The latter plant (I mean 7. Chinensis, var. Bohea) was well known to Loureiro, 
and named by him Thea Cantoniensis ; and, as it neither yields an oil nor grows wild in 
Canton, I do not think that we are far wrong in assuming that the specimen preserved at 
Paris as Thea oleosa has obtained that name by a misplacing of the label, and that the 
genuine specimens of Thea oleosa, Lour., like those of Camellia drupifera, Lour., and 
Thea Cochinchinensis, Lour., have been lost. The genuine C. Sasangua has always white 
flowers; and when Keempfer, who first brought it into notice, attributed pink ones to it, 
he undoubtedly confounded another species with it (viz. Thea maliflora= Camellia mali- 
flora, Lindl.), which, until Lindley pointed it out as distinct, was always regarded as à 
variety of C. Sasanqua. Siebold and Zuccarini, in their * Flora Japonica,’ still kept up 
this old error. There are no specimens of C. Sasanqua in Keempfer’s herbarium ; but in 4 
collection of manuscript drawings of that author, preserved in the British Museum, there 
is a figure of his * Sasanqua,’ which represents the genuine C. Sasanqua of Thunberg: 
(Conf. Thea maliflora, Seem.) 
5. en arborea ; ramulis petiolisque puberulis, foliis lanceolatis vel oyato- 
ceolatis longe acuminatis, subtus venis tenuibus distinctis, floribus odoratis, petalis 
