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according to Fortune prepared from various herbs and used for medical 
purposes. 
Teas from Chittagong; made there from the Assam and Chinese 
plants. (Dr. Hooker. It may be here observed that the Tea-plant of 
Assam is considered a native of that country, a larger and coarser plant 
than the Chinese, and a distinct species, Thea Assamica, Royle. 
Paper Tea. (J. Reeves, Esq.) 
Fellow Tea, from the great Russian fair of Nijni Novogorod. (G. 
Bentham, Esq.) 
Atkalah Tea, and Tea from Yarkand. Captain Strachey. Probably 
Chinese Teas made for those markets. 
* Extract of Tea.” (Dr. Murchison.) A preparation (not a érue 
extract) of Tea, made into lozenges of a variety of forms and sizes, and 
stamped with different devices; used by the Chinese while on long 
journeys. One of the lozenges being put into the mouth is allowed to 
gradually dissolve. Our specimens were brought from Pekin in 1812, 
and still retain the Tea flavour in perfection. 
Chinese Tea-cup, of elegant make. Mrs. Bates. 
Tea-seeds. (R. Heward, Esq.) Et 
Theine, the principle of Tea (which exists also in Coffee and other 
plants.) (Dr. Stenhouse.) : 
` Flowers of Tea. (J. Reeves, Esq.) 
A case containing samples of the various ingredients employed in the 
manufacture of Green Tea by the Chinese, brought from Canton by Dr. 
Seemann, and described by him in his ‘ Voyage of H.M.S. Herald. 
"These are Turmeric, Gypsum, and Prussian blue. 
Samples of various spurious Teas manufactured and sold in he 
land, and also of adulterated Chinese Teas. The number is very con- - 
siderable, and the substitutes very trashy, to say the best of them. - 
(Arthur Hassall, Esq.) 
The Museum contains an elaborate series of Chinese drawings, which | 
there is at present no room to exhibit, explaining the origin and cul- 
tivation and manufacturing of Tea, all done on rice-paper. The first 
drawing represents a monkey upon a rock gathering the Tea-plant, ai 
showering down specimens on the gaping Chinamen below. —— 
Closely allied. botanically to the Teas (Thea) a are the Camellias. of 
these floral favourites we possess :— È 
Flowering specimens of Camellia Japonica, Lh. modelled in wax, gs 
