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CAMELLIA Sasanqua; £. stricta: fl. pl. carneo. 
Mrs. Palmer’s Camellia. 
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MONADELPHIA POLYANDRIA. 
Nat. ord, AURANTIA. Jussieu gen. 262. Div. IT. Fructus polysper- 
mus capsularis. Folia non punctata. Genera AURANTIIS 
et Metts affinia. 
CAMELLIER. Decand. theor. ed. 1. 214. 
THEACER. Mirbel in nouv. bullet. 3. 382. 
Camellia Sasanqua. Vide supra vol. 1. fol. 12. 
(8) stricta; ramis calycibusque lanuginosis; floribus plenis carneis. 
Camellia Sasanqua; 8; flore incarnato multiplict. Curtis’s magaz. 2080. 
The plant being known to us only in the imperfect state 
of a double or rather full flower; we can scarcely form a 
conjecture, whether it is a distinct species or a mere variety 
of some one already known. It seems to differ from japo- 
nica in being altogether smaller, and in having the upper 
branches and calyx furnished with a fine downy fur; it dif- 
fers also from Sasanqua in the habit of growth, which is 
rigid and compact, and not productive of long twiggy re- 
cumbent branches, and as Mr. Sweet observes, in not 
having in any way the outward port of that species, Kemp- 
fer speaks of his Sasanqua as having red flowers, but then 
it is very doubtful to what species his plant may belong. 
When we speak of Sasanqua, we mean the plant already 
figured in this work (vol. 1. fol. 12) under that name; and 
to that species we do not believe our plant belongs; and 
merely continue the name because we find it already pub- 
lished, and are still unable to say where the plant should 
be placed. It is a very beautiful shrub, and flowers 
freely and abundantly in April and May. We believe 
there is no sample of it in Europe, except the one in 
Mrs. Palmer’s collection at Bromley, in Kent, from which 
our drawing was taken. It had been brought from China 
