same as this, aiid like it produces an abundance of fine pale 
yellow oil, which is used in China for various economical 
purposes. Judging, however, from Loureiro's description, 
the two plants can scarcely be identified, notwithstanding 
the resemblance in the Cochinchinese name, Ch^-deau, 
ascribed to his plant by that author, and the Chinese name 
Tcha-Yeoa, mentioned by our friend Dr. Abel, who thus 
spealfs of the C, oleifera which he found in the southern 
provinces of the Chinese empire. 
" We sometimes found it of the magnitude of a moderate- 
sized cherry-tree, and always that of a large shrub, from 
six to eight feet in height, and bearing a profusion of large 
sin^^le white blossoms. This circumstance gave an inter- 
esting and novel character to the places which it covered. 
They often looked in the distance as if lightly clothed with 
snow ; but on a nearer view exhibited one immense gfarden. 
The Camellia oleifera seems to flourish best in a red sandy 
■«oil, on. which few other plants will grow. The Chinese 
cultivate it in large plantations, and procure from its seed 
a pure esculent oil, by a very easy process." 
A tall shrub, or middle-sized tree, with many branches. 
Branches round, brown, with a very slight down. Leaves 
coriaceous, smooth, flat, elliptical, acute at each end, 
towards the end acutely serrated, beneath of a paler colour, 
with scarcely any veins, but a few minute dots. Flowers 
axillary or terminal, solitary, sessile, white, the size of those 
of Camellia Sasanqua. Calyx imbricated, many-leaved, 
silky ; the lower leaflets deciduous, the two upper larger 
petaloid and persistent. Petals 5-6, two-lobed, cuneate, 
flat, spreading. 
J. L. 
