GENERA CAMELLIA AND THEA. 347 
Thea maliflora, Seem. MSS. 
Camellia roseflora, Hook, Bot. Mag. t. 5044 (1858). 
Sasanqua, Kempf. Ameen, Exot. p. 853! ex parte (1712). 
Camellia Sasanqua a, flore rubro simplici, Sims, Bot. Mag. sub t. 2080! (1819). 
Camellia euryoides, Hort. Germ. et Angl. ! (non Lindl. !). 
Var. flore pleno, Seem. 
Camellia Sasanqua, B. stricta, fl. pl. carneo, Edwards, Bot. Reg. t. 547 ! (1821) ; Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 1134 
(1826). 
Camellia Sasanqua, B. flore incarnato multiplici Palmer's Double Sasanqua, Sims, Bot. Mag. t. 2080! 
(1819). 
Camellia Sasanqua rosea, Hort. ! 
Camellia maliflora, Lindl, Bot. Reg. sub t. 1078 ! (1827); Booth in Hort. Soc, Trans. vii. p. 526! (1830) ; 
Chois, in Mém. Soc. Phys. de Genève, t. xiv. pt. i. p. 147 ! (1855). 
Geogr. Distr. Japan. Cultivated in European gardens. 
Kæmpfer (Amcæn. Exot. p. 853) was the first who noticed the normal state of this 
species under the name of * Sasanqua," though he does not seem to have preserved any 
specimens of it, for the only species of Camellia to be found in his herbarium at the 
British Museum is C. Japonica, Linn. (Herb. Keempf. fol. 23. n. 2, et fol. 32. n. 2). He 
distinctly states that it has single red flowers. Thunberg (Flora Japon. p. 273), although 
he ascribed to his Camellia Sasanqua white flowers, quoted Kæmpfer's “ Sasanqua ” as 
an entire synonym of it (though it is only so in part), and thus, by confounding two 
very distinct species, laid the foundation of an endless series of mistakes committed by 
subsequent authors. DeCandolle, too (Prodr. i. p. 529), quoted Kæmpfer’s ** Sasanqua ” 
as a synonym of C. Sasangua, Thunb., further remarking that the latter species varied 
with white, flesh-coloured, pink and red flowers,—a remark not borne out by facts, as the 
true C. Sasanqua, Th., never bears any but white petals. Sims (Bot. Mag. t. 2080) 
figured, from garden specimens introduced by Capt. Rawes in 1816, the double state of 
the species under consideration, which he mistook for a variety of C. Sasanqua, Thunb. ; 
but he felt the necessity of bringing the various synonyms, supposed to belong to C. Sa- 
sanqua, Thunb., into some kind of order, by arranging them as follows :— | 
Camellia Sasanqua. 
Var. a. flore rubro simplici =“ Sasanqua;” Kempf. Ameen. Exot. p. 853. 
Var. 8. flore incarnato multiplici= Palmer’s Double Sasanqua, Bot. Mag. t. 2080. 
Var. y. flore albo simplici= C. Sasanqua, Thunb. Fl. Jap. p. 273. t. 30 [excl. syn. Kempf. ex parte! he 
ought to have added.—B. S.] ; Bot. Reg. t. 12; Staunton. Emb. to China, ii. p. 466, cum icon. 
Of these three varieties only g. and ß. belong to Thea maliflora, y. appertaining to, or 
rather being, the veritable C. Sasanqua, Thunb. The double state of our plant was again 
figured from the same garden plant in the Bot. Reg. t. 547, under the name of C. Sasanqua 
B. stricta, ji. pl. carneo. At last (1827) Lindley (Bot. Reg. sub tab. 1078) pointed out 
that this so-called double pink variety of C. Sasanqua was in reality a distinct species, to 
Which he gave the name of C. maliflora. Booth (Hort. Soc. Trans. vii. p. 526) adopted 
this view, and at the same time drew attention to the very different habits of C. maliflora 
and C. Sasanqua. Unfortunately, Siebold and Zuccarini (Fl. Jap. p. 158) overlooked the 
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