(C.japonica), Harrison ed., 1838, The Floricultural Cabinet, p.149: Double, fine dark red.

Makoy Nursery Catalogue, 1838. No description. Berlèse, 1843, Iconographie, vol.3, pl.268:

The flower is 10 cm across, full, regular, largely imbricated, red-purple with spots of rose and

white lines which regularly divide the petals which are in 8-9 rows, rounded, nearly entire,

concave, erect, somewhat compact; the three outside rows are deep red with many veins of

blood-red; those of the centre are cherry-red with numerous spots and lines of white.

Originated in England. In USA it became confused with an American cultivar William Penn.

Orthographic error: ‘Seratifolia’.