( 3148 ) 
THEA viripis. GREEN TEA. 
Class and Order. 
PotyanpriA Monoeynia. 
( Nat. Ord.—CameE.u1E2. ) 
Generic Character. 
Cal. 5—6-sepalus. Pet. 6~9 ima basi subcoherentia 
2—3-serialia. Stam. basi sublibera. Anthere subrotunde. 
Capsula 3-cocca, septis valvaribus nempe a valyularum 
marginibus introflexis formatis. De Cand. 
Specific Character and Synonyms. 
TuEa* viridis: foliis elliptico-lanceolatis coriaceo-membra- 
haceis convexis undulatis, floribus solitariis nutantibus. 
Tura viridis, Linn. Sp. Pl. p. 7135. Willd. Sp. Pl. p. 1180. 
Sm. in Rees’ Cycl. Loddiges Bot. Cab. t. 227. “ Letts. 
Monogr. t. 1.” Woodv. Med. Bot. Suppl. p. 116. t. 256. 
Booth, in Trans. of Hort. Soe. of Lond. v. 7. p. 558. 
Boura laxa. Ait. Hort. Kew. ed.2.v.3.p.303. 
Tue Chinensis, 2. Sims in Bot. Mag. p. 998. (which see 
for the Synonyms of the var. 8 in other authors.) 
De Cand. Prodr. v. 1. p. 530. Spreng. Syst. Vegel. v. 
2. p. 603. ee 
=e 
Descr. A shrub, rising to the height of eight or ten 
in the conservatory of the Botanic Garden of Glasgow, 
ich branched, the branches spreading, rounded, brown, 
“young shoots green. Leaves rather distant, alternate, 
ph short petioles, elliptical-lanceolate, three to five inch 
ng, Coriaceo-membranaceous, waved and wrinkled, con- 
a bl € margins being recurved, serrated, ofa full (but not 
, ack-) green above, paler beneath, where the midrib 
. veins are prominent. Flowers solitary, axillary, fra- 
by seldom more than one, and that from near the top of : 
flo shoot, upon a short peduncle, drooping, so that the . 
Wer is searcely to be seen but by looking at the we | 
* From the Chinese name of the plant, Teha. 
