GENERA CAMELLIA AND THEA. 301 
ADDENDA. (October 1859.) 
After the foregoing paper had been printed off, a fine specimen of Fortune's * Yellow 
Camellia ” flowered at Kew, affording me an opportunity for examination. It proves to 
be a variety of Camellia Sasanqua, Thunb., of the Warratah or Anemone Class, and may 
be termed 
CAMELLIA SASANQUA, var. y. ANEMONÆFLORA; foliis ovato-lanceolatis longe acuminatis, 
floribus plenis, petalis exterioribus (albis) obovato-oblongis bilobis, staminibus fere 
omnibus in petalos spathulatos (flavos) exterioribus multo breviores mutatis, stylis 5 
(rarissime abortu 4) liberis vel connatis, fructu ..... (v. v. cult.). 
Camellia Sasanqua, Thunb., var. y. anemoneflora, Seem. MSS.; Bot. Mag. t. . (ined.). 
Yellow Camellia, R. Fortune, Journ. to Tea Countr. p. 339 (1852); Gard. Chron. for 1852, p. 259; Seem. 
in Gard. Chron. for 1859, p. 807. 
Fortune’s Gelbe Camellia, Bonplandia, vii. n. 19 (1859). 
«Those who have read my * Wanderings in China, " says Mr. Fortune (Journey to the 
Tea Countries, p.339. London, 1852), * may remember a story I told of my endeavours to 
find a Yellow Camellia,—how I offered five dollars for one,—how a Chinaman soon found 
two instead of one,—and how he got the money and I got taken in! In one of those 
nurseries (about ten or twelve miles eastward of Shanghae), however, I found a Yellow 
Camellia, and it was in full bloom when I bought it. It is certainly a most curious plant, 
although not very handsome. The flowers belong to the Anemone or Warratah Class; 
the outer petals are of a French white, and the inner ones of a primrose-yellow. It 
appears to be a very distinct species in foliage, and may probably turn out more hardy 
than any of its race.” 
Fortune’s supposition that his * Yellow Camellia ” might be a distinct species has not 
been verified, nor is the plant in question to be regarded as å variety of Camellia Japonica. 
The latter flowers towards the spring, and has quite glabrous leaf-buds, petioles, leaves, 
and ovaries; whilst the Yellow Camellia flowers in the autumn, and has pubescent leaf- 
buds, petioles, and veins of the leaves, and a woolly ovary, characters agreeing with 
.. C. Sasanqua, and it may therefore be safely referred to that species as a Warratah or 
Ånemone-flowered variety, the stamens of which are nearly all transformed into short 
spathulate petals of a primrose colour. Hitherto the Warratah state was only known = 
occur in C. Japonica; and the yellow colour is certainly quite a new feature x this 
genus, deserving the greatest attention of horticulturists. That C. mee ur i 
tendency to assume a yellow tinge is evident even from the single flowering state, as 
be seen from the figure in the * Botanical Register, t. 942, where the outer series of sta- 
mens displays the primrose colour peculiar to the Yellow Camellia. I may add that m 
plate quoted represents the form nearest approaching the plant under consideration, the 
leaves of the Yellow Camellia always being more acuminate than those of the ordinary 
form usually found in the gardens, and the styles generally (not always) entirely free. This 
latter particular Fortune's novelty shares with C. Hongkongensis, Seem., and C. drupifera, 
