(C.japonica), Andrew, 1812, Botanical Repository, vol.10, pl.660 as 'flore pleno Incarnato'. In

1816 it was listed as 'The Blush Camellia' in The Botanical Register and finally given the

cultivar name Incarnata in Loddige's Botanical Cabinet, 1818 with a colour plate. A formal

double, 7-9 cm across, outer petals obovate, 4 cm long x 3.3 cm wide,, slightly notched;

central petals obcordate with short, pointed apex. Imbricated to give tiered or hexagonal form.

Pale dawn pink (RHS.CC. 523/3) or paler, depth of colour depending on protection of the

flowers. Leaves narrowly obovate, 9 cm x 4 cm, apex acuminate, margins serrate, light

mid-green, upper surface with pale veining. Habit slow, upright, spreading growth. Imported

from China for Lady Amelia Hume of Wormleybury, England in 1806. The synonym 'Lady

Hume's Blush' is in common use for this cultivar. Synonyms: 'Buff’, 'Buff Pink', 'Blush',

'Double Blush', 'Double Buff', 'Flavescens', 'Hume's Blush', 'Lady Hume's Blush', 'Lady

Hume's Double blush', 'Maiden's Blush', 'Pudeur de Madamoiselle Hume', 'Mahdenblush',

'Maidenblusch', 'Camurca', 'Incarnata Plena', 'Incarnata Flavescens', 'Incarnata Stella',

'Incarnata Myrtifolia', 'Incarnata Pallida', 'Incarnata Pink', 'Precocissima', 'Flesh Coloured',

'Kewblush', 'Incarnate', Japonica Flore Plena Incarnata', ‘Magnifica Maiden Blush’,

‘Roseaflavescens Hume’s Blush’. Pseudonym: 'Carnea'. Colour plates: Berlèse, 1843,

Iconographie, pl.118. Urquhart, 1956, The Camellia. Waterhouse, 1952, Camellia Trail,

pl.VI. Baumann & Baumann, 1831, Collection de Camellias élèves à Bollweiler, p.11, pl.24.

Incarnata Alba. Shepherd & Co. Nursery Catalogue, 1872, p.22. Synonym for Leda.

Incarnata Alba Plena. Magazine of Horticulture, 1835. Synonym for Incarnata.

Incarnata (Buff). Parmentier, 1818, Catalogue des Arbres et Plantes Cultiveés..., p.15. Synonym

for Incarnata.

Incarnata Flavescens. J.E. von Reider, 1834, Die Beschreibung und Kultur der Azaleen, Cactus,

Camelien.., p.180. Prince & Co. Nursery Catalogue 1844, p.104. Synonym for Incarnata.

Incarnata Flore Pleno. Martin Burdin Aine & Co. Catalogue, 1822, p.56 as 'Incarnata Fl. Pl.'. Synonym

for Incarnata.

Incarnata Myrtifolia. Shneiderff, Enrico, ed.,1841, Catalogo delle piante che si Trovano nel

Giardino del Sig. Enrico Sheiderff, p.8. Synonym for Incarnata.

Incarnata Pallida. Medici Spada, 1857, Catalogo nel Giardino a Villa Quiete, p.12. Synonym for

Incarnata.

Incarnata Pink. Vanderbilt, 1941, Camellia Research, II, p.3. Synonym for Incarnata.

Incarnata Plena. Loddige's Nursery Catalogue, 1814, p.25 as 'Incarnata pl. (blush)'. Synonym for

Incarnata.

Incarnata Pleno. Cels, Paris Nursery Catalogue, 1817, p.9. Synonym for Incarnata.

Incarnata Stellata. Costa, 1846, Catalogue de la collection de Camellias présentée à sa majestè

L'Impératrice de toutes les Russies et Reine de Pologne, p.16. Synonym for Incarnata.

Incarnate. Buist.1839, Camellias, p.7. Orthographic error for Incarnata.

Incarnato. Tirocco, 1928, La Camelia, p.44. Orthographic error for Incarnata.

Inchmay. RHS., 1977, Rhododendrons with Magnolias and Camellias, p.98. Orthographic error for

Inchmery.