from being yellowish at the tip. They are short, numerous, and irre¬ 
gularly shaped, often undulated and deeply divided, but all of nearly 
equal height, and disposed in such a manner as to give to the flower 
the appearance of a small double purplish-coloured Rose. In some 
flowers, where the petals are not very numerous in the centre, a few 
parcels of imperfect stamina may be observed; generally, however, 
they are transformed into small narrow petals. 
It was first brought to this country, in 1816, by Captain Richard 
Rawes, who presented the original plant to his relation, Thomas Carey 
Palmer, Esq. of Bromley, in Kent, in whose choice collection it flowered 
in 1818, and was afterwards published in the Botanical Magazine, as a 
variety of Camellia Sasanqua; hence it has been cultivated, and is 
usually known by the name of the Sasanqua Rosea, or P aimer s Double 
Sasanqua Camellia: but from that species it has been lately separated 
by Mr. Lindley, in the Botanical Register, f. 1078, who has applied to 
it the very appropriate name we have here adopted. 
It is propagated freely by inarching on the single red, and requires 
a little more warmth to grow it to perfection than the varieties of 
Camellia Japonica. 
