348 DR. SEEMANN’S SYNOPSIS OF THE 
result of Lindley’s investigation, and probably misled by the name which Kæmpfer had 
adopted for two plants, they quoted, like Thunberg, DeCandolle, Sims, and others, Kæmp- 
fer's * Sasanqua ” as quite synonymous with C. Sasanqua, Thunb., and in their detailed 
description ascribed to C. Sasanqua “ petalis puniceis vel albis." Meanwhile the normal 
state of this species, i. e. the single-flowered variety, had found its way into our gardens, 
and was cultivated for many years, both in England and on the Continent, under the 
name of C, euryoides, Hort. (non Lindl. !), until (1858) Sir W. J. Hooker described it (Bot. 
Mag. t. 5044) as C. roseflora. 
There is undoubtedly a certain resemblance in the foliage of Camellia Sasanqua, Thunb,, 
and Thea maliflora, Seem., that of both being coriaceous and almost glabrous, but on 
closer inspection the difference between the leaves becomes as evident as is that in their 
habit. The characters by which the two species may instantly be distinguished are, that 
Camellia Sasanqua has white petals and a woolly ovary, while Thea maliflora has pink 
petals and a glabrous ovary. When some authors ascribe flesh-coloured and red flowers 
to the latter species, they mean pink, the pink being more or less intense. 
I have not seen any wild specimens of Thea maliflora. Whence and how the single 
state came into our gardens, is a matter of uncertainty; but as Keempfer met with it in 
Japan, it is probably indigenous to that empire. The double variety was introduced (1816) 
from Chinese gardens, and the Chinese may perhaps have obtained it from J apan. 
2. THEA EURYOIDES; ramulis petiolisque pilosis; foliis ovato-lanceolatis acuminatis, 
subtus sericeis, pedunculis imbricato-bracteatis, sepalis ovatis obtusis, dorso pilosis, 
petalis 7-8 obovatis obtusis erectis glabris (albis), staminibus stylis ovariis capsulisque 
glabris. (v. s. sp.) 
Thea euryoides, Booth in Hort. Soc. Trans. vii. p- 560 (1830) ; Chois. in Mém. Soc. Phys. de Genève, 
xiv. i. pp. 149, 156 (1855). 
Camellia euryoides, Lindl. Bot. Reg. t. 983 (1826); Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 1493 (1828) ; Seem. Bonpl. vi. 
p. 278 (1858). 
Geogr. Distr. Chusan (Dr. Cantor, in Herb. Benth. N. 
I have only seen a single specimen of this species, from China, preserved in Bentham's 
herbarium. It was first imported in a living state by the Horticultural Society of 
London in 1822, and again in 1824, and is used by the Chinese for grafting upon it their 
varieties of Camellia Japonica. Itseems to have entirely disappeared from our gardens, 
what goes by the name of Camellia euryoides amongst horticulturists being the normal 
state of Thea maliflora. | 
* Des CAUDATA ; ramulis petiolisque puberulis; foliis lanceolatis longe acuminatis - 
utrinque glabris, pedunculis imbricato-bracteatis, sepalis ovatis obtusis, petalis 5 
obovatis obtusis, dorso villosis, patentibus (albis), staminibus stylis ovariisque villosis 
capsula glabra. (V. S. sp.) 
Thea caudata, Seem. MSS. | 
Camellia caudata, Wall. Cat. n. 978 (1828); Wall, Plant. Asiat. Rar. iii. p. 36 (1832); Wiprs. Rep. på 
ve t P-375 (1842) ; Chois. in Mém. Soc. Phys, Genève, xiv. i. p. 148 (1855); Griff. Itinerary 
ove’, p. 40. n.651 (1848) ; Griff. Notulæ ad Plant. Asiat. iv. p. 559. t. 601. fig. 2 (1854). 
