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Chrub. Tea is generally diftinguifhed into 

 forown and green, according as it tinges the 

 water. 



Brown tea is Honam Te, or Ktdi-Te, 

 which grows in fome places about Canton, and 

 is drunk by the Chinefe, but not by the Euro- 

 peans : its tafte being the lead agreeable of 

 any. [See tab. xiii. fig. 2.] The dried 

 leaves are either yellow or brownifh. The tea 

 {hrubs, which are fold in flower-pots here, 

 fcarce grow to the height of an ell. The 

 flower confifts of fix white petals, of which 

 the three lowed are the fmalleft. 



An-kay is a coarfc fort of tea, from a place 

 of this name. ,[Tab. xiii. f. 3.] 



age, gathering, and preparation. But Do£lor £#// hss late- 

 ly difcovered that the brown tea comes from the tea fhrub 

 with fix petals, or flower leaves, which Kampfer has de- 

 fcribed, and reprefented : but that the green tea is taken from 

 the tea (hrub with nine leaved flowers. The former in Iin- 

 tiaus's Spec. Plantarum, Ed. ii. p. 734. is Tbea lohea, 

 and the latter Thea <virldis. Linnaus diftinguifh.es it, befides 

 the flowers, by the longer and narrower leaves. Dr. Schre- 

 ier. It is notwithstanding, very doubtful whether the 

 plant of the green tea is really different from that of the 

 iohea tea. F„ 



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