(C.japonica), The Garden, 1887, 3:318: Large, semi-double, white, striped rose pink,

with holly-like foliage. Puddle and Hanger, 1960, RHS., The Rhododendron & Camellia

Yearbook, No.14, pp.153, 154: Semi-double, 6-9 cm across, predominantly white with

Carmine Rose 621 streaks and blotched; petals, 18-19 in 3 rows, 4.5 cm x 4.5 cm, obovate to

orbicular, apex undulate; stamens in central mass, filaments sometimes petaloid. Leaves dark

green glossy, narrowly elliptic to elliptic, margins finely and sharply serrate, apex

Long-acuminate, 10 cm long x 4-5 cm wide. Plant habit compact, slender. Imported from

Japan and obtained by L. van Houtte, Belgium, from whom it was secured by the Caledonia

Nurseries, Guernsey. It is a most variable variety producing the sports: Yours Truly, Lady

Vansittart Blush, Lady Vansittart Pink, Lady Vansittart White, ‘Frances McLanahan’.

Orthographic errors: ‘Lady Van Settie’, ‘Lady Van Sitart’, ‘Lady Van Sittard’, ‘Lady Van

Sittart’, ‘Lady Van Sitti’, ‘Lady Vansette’, ‘Lady Vansetti’, ‘Lady Vansettie’, ‘Lady

Vansittaart’, ‘Lady Vansitart’, ‘Lady Vansittard’, ‘Countess Devansittart’, ‘Vansittart’, ‘Mdm

Vansittart’, ‘Lady v.Sittart’. Synonym: ‘Lady Vansittart Variegated’, ‘Lady Vansittart

Lanarth’, ‘Lady Vansittart Striped’. See colour pl.XXXIV, Urquhart, 1960, The Camellia,

vol.II. Believed to be synonymous with the Japanese Edo-nishiki. Chinese synonym

‘Fanxitate Furen’.