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CORREA alba. 
White Correa, or Botany-Bay Tea-tree. 
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OCTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Nat. ord. Dios MER. Brown in append. (p Find, voy. 2. 545. 
CORREA. Supra vol. 1. fol. 3. te d . 
c. alba, foliis ovato-rotundatis in petiolum attenuatis; floribus solitariis plu- 
ribusve in cymam; corolla turbinato-reflexa: petalis discretis, margine 
inflexis. 
Correa alba. Andrews’s reposit. 18. Ventenat malm. 13. Desfont. in ann. 
du mus. 2. 32. Willd. sp. pl. 2. 324. Hort. Kew. ed. 2. 2. 349. 
Correa cotinifolia. Parad. lond. 100. 
(8) color intensiüs rubigineus; folia minora; flores solitarii v. gemini. 
Correa rufa. Labillardiere voy. à la réch. de la Pérouse. 2. app. 120. 
Ventenat loc. cit. Persoon syn. 1. 419. 
Mazeutoxeron rufum. Zabillardiere loc. cit. 2. 11. t. 17. 
Frutex dumosus, erectus, pube compositá, rufescente; rami parüm diver- 
gentes. Folia subuncialia, coriacea, patentia; juniora rubiginco-pubentia ; 
seniora prolapsis villis suprà glanduloso-puncticulata eomparentia, ob- 
scurè venosa, fusco-virentia, subtüs tomentoso-candicantia, petioli 2-3-line- 
ares. Pedunculi petiolis breviores, nunc bi-trichotomi, 3-5-flori; pedicelli 
breves sepiùs juxta florem bibracteati, Cal. cupulatus, repando-dentatus, 
brevi. Cor. semunciam exsuperans, albida, extüs tomentosa, intüs gla- 
brata, rugosa, erubescens; pet. soluta, ligulato-oblonga, acuta, canaliculata, 
Stam. erecto-patentia, corollam @quantia, alterno subbreviora: fil. è basi 
subclevatá sulcatá setacea: anth. incumbentes, antó anthesin sanguinea. 
Germ. hirsutum sulcis octonis impressum: stylus setaceus: stig. obsolete 4. 
Flores inodori, fundo nectarifero. 
Tae whole shrub, except the bloom, has a dusky ap- 
pearance, and when drawn through the hand diffuses a 
refreshing fragrance, resembling that of the Myrtle in 
bloon. It belongs to New South Wales, where the leaves 
have been often used by the colonists as a substitute for 
Tea; and Mr. Brown tells us, that he has prepared it so as 
to have been drank by some of his European guests for 
good Chinese Tea. The art is to adapt the infusion so as to 
prevent too great a degree of bitter. In this country it 
varies much in the size of the leaf, which we have seen 
from ialf an inch to one and a half long, and more than one 
broad. We have 'sometimes perceived on these what 
appeard to us an oily secretion, seemingly exsuded from 
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