(C.japonica), Tourres, Macheteaux, Catalogue, 1839, p.21. No description. Anonymous,

Sept.1839, Revue Horticole, p.389: A seedling raised by M. Tourres, Macheteau, France;

described by Berlèse in his Monographie, ed.2, 1840 and illustrated and described in his

Iconographie, 1843, pl.213. Verschaffelt also described and illustrated this variety in his

1848, Nouvelle Iconographie, Book V, pl.IV. It is a formal double with numerous, broadly

obovate petals, 5.5 cm long by 4.5 cm wide, becoming smaller towards the centre, rounded at

apex, bases tapered, imbricated. Under some climatic condition the flower varies to

incomplete double, exposing rare stamens when fully open, 10-11 cm across, colour Turkey

Red 721 /1, tending to deeper in the centre. Leaves, dark, glossy green, narrowly ovate to

elliptic, 8 cm long x 4-5 cm wide, apex acuminate, decurved, margins serrulate. Received an

“Award of Merit” from the RHS in 1956. Orthographic errors: ‘Coquette’, ‘Coquetti’,

‘Coquetii’, ‘Cocquettii’, ‘Cocquete’, ‘Cocquetti’. Synonyms: ‘Glen 40’, ‘Glen No.40’,

‘Coquettii Vera’, ‘Alabama Glen 40’, ‘Alabama’, ‘Incomparabilis Vera’. Chinese synonym:

‘Meiguo Dahong’. Sports: Coquettina, ‘Glen 40 Variegated’.

Coquettii Variegated. SCCS, 1951, The Camellia. Its Culture and Nomenclature as ‘Coquetti

Var.’. Synonym for Coquettina.

Coquettii Vera. Verschaffelt Catalogue, 1844-1845, p.24. Synonym for Coquettii.