(C.japonica), Curtis, 1820, Monograph on the Genus Camellia, p.1, as ‘flore pleno

Anemoniflora Alba’ or ‘White Waratah’; Chandler & Buckingham, 1825, Camellia

Britannica as ‘Anemone Flora Alba’: "This plant was produced, with 4 others, from 5 seeds

contained in a capsule of the Pompone or ‘Kew Blush’ variety and sown in November 1819.

Its habit and appearance are much the same as its parent. The branches are pale coloured,

erect and slender. The leaves resemble ‘the striped’ (Variegata) in shape but of a lighter

green with more prominent veins. It approximates nearer to the leaves of the Pompone and

‘Paeony-flowered’ varieties. They are broader at the base, more veiny on the upper side and

have a stronger midrib. The flower buds are large and round, with thin, pale green, slightly

pubescent scales. The flowers are about the same size as the ‘Pompone’, which they also very

much resemble in form and disposition of the petals. They seldom exceed 8.5 to 10 cm across

and are of a delicate white colour, a little striped and occasionally spotted with pale red. The

outer petals are large and spreading, about 10 in number and arranged in two rows; the greater

part of them are nearly flat, roundish cordate, from 2.5- 3.8 cm in diameter. The inner petals

are small, irregularly shaped and numerous; their usual characteristic is to be nearly all of the

same height and rise upright in a dense mass. The name of ‘White Waratah’ or ‘White

Anemone Flowered’ which has been given to this variety, is inappropriate as leading one to

suppose, except for the colour of its flowers, that it is the same as the elegant variety

represented at folio 8." (Anemoniflora) Synonyms: ‘White Waratah’, ‘Warratah White’,

‘White Warrata’. Orthographic variants and errors: ‘Anemoneflora Alba’, ‘Anemonaeflora

Alba’, ‘Anemone Flora Alba’, ‘Anemoniaeflora Alba’, ‘Anemonae Flora Alba’, ‘White

Anemone’, ‘Anemone Alba’, ‘Anemonaeflora Albo Variabilis’. See colour plates in Chandler

& Booth, 1831, Illustrations and Descriptions of the plants which compose... pl.12 as

‘Anemoniflora Albo’. Note-. According to Chandler & Buckingham this was raised from

seed planted in 1819. Obviously from the listing by Curtis, a camellia of this name was a

mature plant prior to 1820. From this it would appear that there were two camellias named

‘Anemoniflora Alba’.

Anemoniflora Alba (Australia). SCCS, 1954, The Camellia. Its Culture and Nomenclature, p.26.

This was a synonym for the name ‘Leila’ which had been applied by Waterhouse in 1947.

However as two previous camellias had also been known by this name, it was later changed to

‘Narellen’. Orthographic variant ‘Anemonaeflora Alba’(Australia).

Anemoniflora Alba Plena. Loddiges Catalogue, 1814 as ‘Anemonaeflora Alba Pl.’. According to

the 1830 Journal of the Horticultural Society of London: "believed to have been amongst

those imported for Kew in 1810". It thus appears to be a synonym for Paeoniiflora Alba.