(C.japonica), Verschaffelt, 1844-1845, Catalogue, p.23. No description. Burdin Maggiore & Co.

Catalogue, 1845. p.41. No description; Charles van Geert, 1847, Catalogue No.101, p.8:

Perfect imbrication, white delicately lined with red. Berlèse, 1849, Annales de la Société

Centrale d’Horticulture de France, vol.40, p.74 as ‘Clotildae’: Flower 9-10 cm across, bright

pink. Full, formal double, petals numerous, cupped, imbricated with regularity from

circumference to centre, colour bright pink. van Geert Catalogue, 1848: Imbricated, soft pink,

finely striped rose. A seedling raised in Italy by Casoretti and named for Princesse Clotilde,

(1843-91) daughter of Vittorio Emmanuelle II and wife of Prince Napoleon. Orthographic

variants: ‘Clothilde’, ‘Clotildae’. Synonyms: ‘Principessa Clotilda’, ‘Principessa Clothilde’,

‘Princess Clotilde’, ‘Princess Clothilde’, ‘Princesse Clothilde’, ‘Principessa de Clothilde’,

‘Principessa Clotilde’, Principess Clothilda’. Note; Hillebrand and Bertolazzi, Antiche

Camelie del Lago Maggiore, 2003, p.311 states that the cultivar they recognise as ‘Principessa

Clotilde’ was raised by Rovelli about 1850. All descriptions are fairly similar, and it is not

possible to say with certainty if there were one or two cultivars.