(C.japonica), Courtois, 1833, Magazin d’Horticulture, 1[pt.D]:315. No description. Jacob

Makoy et Cie Catalogue, 1833. No description. Harrison, 1835, The Floricultural Cabinet,

vol.III, p.186 as a British hybrid having dark red flowers. Berlèse, 1837, Monographie, ed.1,

p.107, 130: Leaves 5.5 cm wide by 10 cm long, lanceolate, oblong, somewhat acuminate,

undulating, close, reflexed, deeply serrate; bud oblong with green calycinal scales; flower, 8

cm across, regular, double, orange red approaching carmine; the petals of the circumference

arranged in several rows, broad, imbricated and deeply crenate at the apex, some of those in

the centre, long, twisted and reclining. Mertens & Fontaine, Collection de cent

espèces.....camellia, 1845, pl.45. A seedling of Corallina. Journal of Agriculture, 1871,

vol.1, p.198: Bright scarlet, but only semidouble, never-the-less very fine. This seems to

correspond with the form grown in Britain today. See Robert Veitch Catalogue, 1955, p.8:

Large, deep rose-red, semi-double. Orthographic errors: ‘Cospicua’, ‘Conspicuous’.

Synonym: ‘Conspicua Vera’.

Conspicua. Treseders Nurseries (Truro), Lid Camellia List, 1962, p.2. Thought to be erroneously

for Emperor of Russia.

Conspicua de Beck. Porcher, 1847, Revue Horticole, ser.3, vol.1, p.448. Synonym for Beck’s Conspicua.