23. teenste(em:ia.cb^!. 83 



Camellia viridis, Link, Enum. PL Hort. Bot. Berol. ii. p. 73. 



Thea sinensis, Linn. Sp. PL ed. 1, p. 515. 



Thea Bohea et T. viridis, Linn. Sp. PL ed. 2, pp. 734 et 735. 



Thea cochinchinensis et T. cantoniensis, Lour. FL Cochinch. pp. 338 

 et 339, ex Seemann. 



Thea assamica, Masters in Journ. Agric. et Hortic. Soc. India, iii. 

 (1844), p. 63. 



Thea japonica, Kcempf. Amoen. Exot. p. 605. 



Thea chinensis, Sims, Bot. Mag. t. 998; DC. Prodr. i. p. 530; Seem, 

 in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxii. p. 349, t. 61. 



There are numerous specimens of this species in the herbaria, 

 from China, Formosa, and Japan ; but it is still uncertain whe- 

 ther the plant is really indigenous eastward of Assam and 

 Cachar. Mus. Brit. ; Herb. Kew. 



See Hance in Journ. Bot. 1885, p. 321 : " Thea Bohea, Linn., 

 really wild in Hainan," Bev. B. C. Henry. 



In addition to the foregoing there is a fruit-bearing specimen 

 of a species of Camellia in the Kew Herbarium (China, Beeves), 

 with large leaves (six to seven inches long) like the common 

 laurel ; and flowering specimens (Ningpo, Everard, and Kiu- 

 kiang, Maries) of a species closely resembling C. rosaeflora, but 

 having a hairy pistil. There is also (Lofaushan, Ford) a fruit- 

 bearing specimen of a Camellia or Pyrenaria. 



[Vatica chinensis, Linn. {Dipterocarpeae) Mant. ii. p. 242; 

 Smith, Ic. ined. t. 36, has been identified (Dyer in Hook. f. FL 

 Brit. Ind. i. p. 302) with V. Roxburghiana, Blume, a species appa- 

 rently restricted to the western peninsula of India and Ceylon.] 



24. MALVACK&. 



[Althaea rosea, Cav. (Alcea rosea, Linn.), the Hollyhock, is 

 cultivated and subspontaneous in China and Japan. In Bot. 

 Mag. t. 3198, it is said to have been introduced into Europe from 

 China in 1753. Althaea chinensis, Wall. Cat. 2689 is a synonym. 

 Althaea sinensis, Cav. Diss. ii. p. 92, t. 29. fig. 3, has not been 

 identified, and is possibly not Chinese.] 



1. Malva parviflora, Linn. Amoen. Acad. iii. p. 416; DC. 

 Prodr. i. p. 433 ; Masters in Rook.f. Fi. Brit. Ind. i. p. 321. 



Kiangsi : Kiukiang {Shearer !). Herb. Kew. 



Very widely dispersed in the north temperate regions of the 

 Old World, and now naturalized in many other parts. 



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