190 TERNSTRG@MIACE ZL. 
countries, and bear witness to the increasing favour with which | . 
Indian tea is regarded in England :— : 
iti Other ; 
Chr cosa | Ceylon. | Java. Countries. i 
| | 
| 0-15 
1876, per cent. .../ 84°03 | 14:99 005 | 078 | 
BStT) og hy asf OOS 31°15 589 | o3s2 | | 247 
—Chemist and Druggist, April 1889. 
Gordonia obtusa, Wall., Wight Ill. i. 99, is a tall 
tree of the Western Peninsula from the Concan to Pulney hills, 
and is called Nagetta by the hill people. The leaves havé 
“been used in the Nilgiris as a substitute for tea; they resemble 
the tea leaf in size and shape, but may be distinguished B 
their obtuse points. The leaves contain a crystallizable 
sublimable alkaloid like caffeine to the extent of 0°04 per een 
also tannic acid, and an odorous body very much like that 
tained in ordinary tea. Theash is lower: 3°96 to 3°67 per 
SCHIMA WALLICHII , Choirs. 
F ig.— Griff. Notul. iv., 562, t. 600. - 
Hab.—Eastern Himalaya, N ipal to Bhotan, Assam, Burm 
Vernacular—Chilauni, Makriya-chilauni (Hind.). The Hindi 
names for this tree signify “that which causes itch,” “ that which . 
_ causes monkey’s itch.” The part of the tree which has this 
_ effect is the bark, in which the liber-cells appear like glistening 
_ white needles which irritate the skin like cowhage, which drug: 
it resembles in being a mechanical irritant. The bark is thick, 
externally smooth, of a greyish-brown colour and very irregu 
surface, caused by deep fissures and exfoliation of portions 
the suber ; internally it is of a reddish-brown colour and short 
_ fracture, and is remarkable for a number of white glistening 
Be 
