(C.japonica), Curtis, 1819, Monograph on the Genus Camellia: The new white Camellia

japonica, called, by the Horticultural Society, Welbankiana, after Captain Welbank, who, as

well as Captain Rawes, imported a plant in 1816 and both plants bloomed in 1819. Captain

Welbank’s at Mr Turners, Rook’s Nest Park, Surrey, and Captain Rawes’s at Mrs Palmer’s

Bromley. Loudon, 1825, The Greenhouse Companion, p.75 as ‘Wellbank’s Camellia’: Double

white. On p.74 this separately lists ‘Luteo-alba’ as ‘Bassington’s yellowish white’. This may

be Seidel’s ‘Lutea Plena’ or the plant brought in by Captain Rawes. Chandler & Booth, 1831,

Illustrations and Descriptions of Camellias, pl.27 as ‘Welbankii’ (Captain Welbank’s White

C.): The flowers are of a yellowish white colour, 7.5-8.5 cm in diameter. They be said to rank

between the the ‘Double White’ (Alba Plena) and the Pompone...The petals are not arranged

in any sort of order, so that the flower has a confused appearance. The exterior petals are of a

roundish form, from, 2.5-3.8 cm in diameter, much undulated, a little recurved or divided. The

centre petals are irregularly shaped; sometimes they resemble Pompone, but are twisted and

in tufts, with several parcels of imperfect stamina intermixed. In the Botanical Register (t.708)

where it is figured under the name of ‘Luteo-Albicans’, it is stated to have been introduced by

the late Mr Bassington, of Stoke Newington. Synonyms: ‘Welbank’s White’, ‘Welbank’s

White Flowered Japanese Camellia’, ‘Flavescens’, ‘White Peony Flowered’, ‘White Moutan

Camellia’, ‘Luteo-Albicans’, ‘Heptangularis’, ‘Lutea Alba’, ‘Heptangulans Alba’.

Orthographic errors: ‘Walbankiana’, ‘Welbanckiana’, ‘Welbanckii’, ‘Welbankii’,

‘Welbancksiana’, ‘Welbanksii’, ‘Wilbancksiana’, ‘Wellbankiana’, ‘Wellbankii’,

‘Wellbanksana’, ‘Wilbanksiana’, ‘Wilsbanksiana’, ‘Welbancksii’, ‘Wellbancksiana’,

‘Webank’s White’, ‘Wellbankia’, ‘Walbankii’, ‘Welbanksiana’, ‘Welbanksiani’,

‘Vilbankiana’, ‘Wellbanckii’, ‘Wouelbackiana’, ‘Wouelbanckiana’, ‘Welbenkiana’,

‘Velbanksiana’. The description given in SCCS, Camellia Nomenclature is incorrect, the

cultivar is creamy white and has no pink markings and is not an anemone form. In Burnett’s

The Magazine of Botany and Gardening.---vol.3, new ser., p.153, 1835 as ‘Welbankii’, ‘Luto

Albicans’ is given as a synonym with reference to The Botanical Register. This indicates that

Welbankiana may have been introduced as early as 1812.

FOGLIA:  medio grande, tondeggiante, convessa, dentata. Fioritura in medio mperiodo.

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