fpecies.. Indeed it is now nearly afcertained, that all the dif. 
ferent forts of tea, prepared in China, are the produce of the 
fame fpecies ; and that the colour, form, and qualities, depend: 
chiefly upon the climate, foil, age, modes of preparation, and 
various manipulations that the leaves are fubje&ted to. What 
is known refpeéting thefe has been fo frequently repeated, that 
we fhall only refer our readers to Prof. Marryn’s edition of 
Mixivrer’s Dittionary. The Sobea variety appears, however, to 
be more tender than the Green, and will not endure the feverity 
of our winters, which the latter bears with impunity. 
According to our friend and. coadjutor Mr. Ker (late 
Gawter) TuHea and Came uia cannot be kept apart, but 
mufi be united into one genus ; and our own obfervations go 
to confirm this idea, but we are unwilling to change the generic 
name until all the allied plants fhall have been more accurately 
examined. The imbricated calyx of the latter may be thought — 
to keep them diftin&, though the former has likewife a few 
{cales at the bafe, which foon fall off. Moft certainly, however, 
even in the Linnean fyftem, Cameriria and Tura ought not 
to have been placed in different claffes, for the filaments and 
petals of the Tra all coalefce at the bafe, and always fall off 
united in one piece, though, if examined when the flower firft 
expands, the filaments will be feen firmly attached to the 
receptacle. 
In his natural orders, Linn aus refers both Came tra and 
Tuea toa diftin@ feétion at the end of his columuifera@, OF 
malvacee of Jussieu. The fatter author hefitatingly and per- 
haps with lefs propriety has added them to his Aurantia*. 
- The variety here figured, according to Lourerro, grows 
in the province of Fo-kien, in China; and, if our fynonym be 
right, occurs alfo, both indigenous and cultivated, in the pro- 
vince of Canton. : ia 
Flowers with us in the autumn, and when planted in the 
open ground not at all, except in the moft favourable feafons. 
May be propagated by cuttings. Introduced about the year 
1768; by Joun Extts, Efg. . ) 
Our figure was taken in Matcoxm’s Nurfery, Kenfington, 
at that time in the poffeflion of Meffrs. Grimwoop and 
WYKEs. ae 
_* According to our obfervation, made in a recent and mature feed, the 
radicle of the embryo is refleéted towards ‘the bafe, while the plumula, 0% 
mentioned by G2rrTwer, is afcendant or centripetal ; but we do not venture (0 
lay any ftrefs upon a fingle experiment, made too without reference to pu’ 
pbfervations, and therefore perhaps with too little attention, 
