GENERA CAMELLIA AND THEA. 347 



Tliea maliflora, Seem. MSS. 



Camellia rosaflora, Hook. Bot. Mag. t. 5044 (1858). 



Sasanqua, Kaempf. Amoen. Exot. p. 853 ! ex parte (1712). 



Camellia Sasanqua a,flore rubra simplici, Sims, Bot. Mag. sub t. 2080! (1819). 



Camellia euryoides, Hort. Germ, et Angl. ! (non Lindl. i). 



Var. flore plena, Seem. 



Camellia Sasanqua, fi. stricta, fl. pi. cameo, Edwards, Bot. Reg. t. 54? ! (1821) ; Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 11.34 



(1826). 

 Camellia Sasanqua, ^. flore incarnato muliiplici= 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 Mem. Soc. Phys. de Geneve, t. xiv. pt. i. p. 147 ! (1855). 

 Geogr. Dislr. Japan. Cultivated in European gardens. 



Ksempfer (Amcen. Exot. p. 853) was the fii'st who noticed the normal state of this 

 species under the name of " Sascmqtia," 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. Kaempf. 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 Ksempfer'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. DeCandoUe, too (Prodi-, i. p. 529), quoted Ksempfer's " Sasanqua " 

 as a synonym of C. Sasanqua, Thunb., fui'ther 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. Eawes in 1816, the double state of 

 the species under consideration, which he mistook for a variety of C. Sasanqua, Thunlj. ; 

 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 rubra simplici=" Sasanqua," Kaempf. Amoen. Exot. p. 853. 

 Var. 0. 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 [e.xcl. syn. Kaempf. ex parte ! he 

 ought to have added. — B. S.] ; Bot. Reg. 1. 12 ; Staunton. Emb. to China, ii. p. 466, cum icon. 



Of these three varieties only «. and |3. belong to Thea tnaliflora, 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, mider the name of C. Sasanqua 

 /3. stricta, fl. pi. cameo. At last (1827) Lindley (Bot. Reg. sub tab. 1078) pointed out 

 that this so-called double pink variety of C. SasanqiM was in reality a distinct species, to 

 which he gave the name of C. maliflora. Booth (Hort. Soc. Trans, ^-ii. 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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