(C.japonica), Berlèse, 1843, Iconographie, vol.3, pl.240: The flower is 9-10 cm

across, full rose, regular, imbricated from the centre to the circumference, of a cherry red,

deeper at the circumference than the centre and marked with bands and broad lines of soft

rose. The petals are in 6-7 rows. Those of the first two rows are large, rounded, notched and

veined; those of the next rows are long, becoming smaller towards the centre. They are

divided vertically by whitish bands and stripes. Ridoli, 1848, Catalogo delle Piante, p.8:

Perfect imbrication. Outer petals rounded, inner acuminate. Vivid rose, slightly paler in the

centre. All petals almost divided in half by white stripes. A modern listing by Onillon, Angers

Catalogue, 1937, p.3 as ‘Marie Antoinette’: Imbricated red. Could be a self red sport.

Originated as a seedling in Italy by Ridolfi. Orthographic variant: ‘Marie Antoinette’.

Orthographic errors: ‘Maria Antionetta’, ‘Maria Antonetta’, ‘Maria Antoinette’, ‘Maria

Antionetta’, ‘Marie Antonietta’, ‘Mariantonia’. Synonym: ‘Marie Antonietta Nova’. See pl.I,

Book III, Verschaffelt, 1856, Nouvelle Iconographie.

Maria-Antonietta Vera. Linden Catalogue, 1871-1872, p.17. Synonym for Maria Antonietta.