5. 
CAMELLIA SASANQUA, 
Lady Banks’s Camellia. 
Camellia Sasanqua, ramis virgatis capsulaque villosis; foliis j unioribus elliptico- 
lanceolatis, serratis; petalis obovatis vel obcordatis. Bot. Reg.fol. 12. 
Camellia Sasanqua. Thunberg’s Flora Japon. 273. t. 30. Cavanilles’ Diss. 6. 
306, t. 160, f. 2. Willd. Sp. Plant. 3. 842. Hortus Kewensis, 2 Ed. 4. 235. 
Poiret Suppl. Encyc. de Lamarck, 2. 48. Curtis’s Monograph, pi. 1. 
Decandolle’s Prodr. 1. 529. Loddiges’s Bot. Cab. t. 1275. 
Sasanqua. Kaempfer’s Amcen. Exot. 853. 
Cha- Wliaw of the Chinese. Staunton in Macartney’s Embassy, vol. 2. p. 467, with 
a good figure. 
THIS plant is recorded, in the last edition of the Hortus Kewensis, to 
have been introduced in 1811, by the Honorable Court of Directors of 
the East India Company, in the Cuffnels, Captain Wellbank. Its 
specific name ( Sasanqua ) is that by which it is known in Japan, where, 
as well as in China, it is extensively cultivated, and considered of equal 
importance with the Camellia Oleifera, which we have already figured 
and described. 
It is of a loose, straggling habit, but if the principal stem is sup¬ 
ported when young, it will attain the height of six or eight feet. The 
branches are mostly pendulous, round, and twiggy, of a deep brown 
colour, deciduously villous, and weak. 
The leaves are elliptic-lanceolate, thick, smooth and flat, upwards 
of two inches long, and one inch broad, with small roundish serratures; 
they are of a dark shining green, and have a prominent pale green, 
villous midrib. The footstalks are about a quarter of an inch long, 
slightly villous and channelled above; rounded beneath, nearly smooth, 
and of a pale green colour. 
The flower buds are sometimes produced singly from the axils of 
, the leaves, but generally they are terminal, solitary, and sessile. They 
vary in size, and are smaller than those of the Camellia Oleifera, or 
Camellia Maliflora; of a roundish oval form, covered with numerous 
roundish concave, imbricated, pale green, silky scales. 
The flowers, which are white, open in November and December, 
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