348 DR. SEEMANN'S SYNOPSIS OF THE 



result of Lindley's investigation, and probably misled by the name which Ksempfer had 

 adopted for two plants, they quoted, like Thunberg, DeCandoUe, Sims, and others, Ksemp- 

 fer's " Sasanqua " as quite synonymous with C. Sasanqua, Tliunb., and ia their detailed 

 description ascribed to C. Sasanqua " petaUs ptiniceis vel albis." Meanwhile the normal 

 state of tills species, i. e. the single-flowered variety, had found its way tato our gardens, 

 and was cultivated for many years, both in England and on the Contiaent, under the 

 name of C. eunjokles, Hort. (non Lmdl. !), untU (1858) Su- W. J. Hooker described it (Bot. 

 Mag. t. 5044) as C. roscejlora. 



There is undoubtedly a certain resemblance in the foliage of Camellia Sasanqua, Thtmb., 

 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 theu" 

 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 prak 

 petals and a glabrous ovary. When some aiithors 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 wUd specimens of Thea maliflora. Whence and how the single 

 state came into our gardens, is a matter of uncertainty ; but as Ksempfer 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 Japan. 



2. Thea exjrtoides ; ramulis petiolisque pilosis ; foliis ovato-lanceolatis acuminatis, 

 subtus sericeis, pedunculis imbricato-bracteatis, sepalis ovatis obtusis, dorso pilosis, 

 petaUs 7-8 obovatis obtusis erectis glabris (albis), staminibus styHs ovariis capsulisque 

 glabris. (v. s. sp.) 



Thea ewyoides, Booth in Hort. Soc. Trans, vii. p. 560 (1830) ; Chois. in Mem. Soc. Phys. de Geneve, 

 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). 



Geofjr. Distr. Chusan (Dr. Cantor, in Herb. Benth. !). 



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. It seems to have entirely disappeared from our gardens, 

 what goes by the name of Camellia euryoides amongst horticultm-ists being the normal 

 state of Thea maliflora. 



3. Thea catjdata ; ramulis petiolisque puberulis ; foliis lanceolatis longe acuminatis, 

 utrinque glabris, pedunculis imbricato-bracteatis, sepalis ovatis obtusis, petalis 5 

 obovatis obtusis, dorso vUlosis, patentibus (albis), staminibus stylis ovariisque villosis, 

 capsula glabra, (v. s. sp.) 



Thea caudata, Seem. MSS. 



Camellia cavdata. Wall. Cat. n 978 (1828) ; Wall. Plant. Asiat. Rar. iii. p. 36 (1832) ; Wlprs. Rep. Bot. 

 Syst. i. p. 375 (1842) ; Chois. in Mem. Soc. Phys. Geneve, xiv. i. p. 148 (1855); Griff. Itinerary 

 Notes, p. 40. n.651 (1848) ; Griff. Notulse ad Plant. Asiat. iv. p. 559. t. 601. fig. 2 (1854). 



