ORD. XXXIX. Tricocce. 641 
THEA. TEA-TREE. 
SYNONYMA. Thea. Pharm. V. Dale, Geoffroy, Alston, Lewis, 
Ed. New Dispens. Bergius, Murray, Cullen, &. Chaa. Bauh. 
Pin. The Sinensium seu Tsia Japonensibus. Breyn. Exot. Plant. 
Tsja, Thea frutex folio Cerasi flore Rose sylvestris. Kdampfer. 
Ameen. exot. We Thee. Fougeroux de Bondaroi in Rozier, Obs. 
et Mem. sur la Physique. tom. 1. f. 1. See Letisom’s Natural 
History of the Tea-Tree. 
Polyandria Monogynia. Lin. Gen. Plant. 668. 
Gen. Ch. Cor. 6-s, 9-petala.: Cal. 5-s, 6-phyllus. Caps. 3-cocca. 
Sp. Ch. + ( Bohea) foliis elliptico-oblongis rugosis. 
Broad-leav'd Tea. 
8 foliis lanceolatis planis, 
Narrow-leav'd Tea. 
A SMA] evergreen or shrub, much branched, and covered 
with a rough dark grey bark. Leaves elliptical, or lanceolate, 
entire, alternate, obtusely serrated, veined, placed on short foot- 
stalks. Calyx small, smooth, persistent, divided into five obtuse 
segments. Flowers white, often two or three together, on separate 
peduncles, placed at the axillw of the leaves. Corolla varying 
in the number and size of its petals, but commonly six, of an 
irregular roundish form, Filaments very numerous, shorts inserted 
at the base of the corolla. Anthere large, yellow. . Germen 
roundish, or rather triangular. Style trifid, spreading at the top, 
and furnished with simple stigmata. Capsule three-celled, opening. 
Seeds three, oblong, brown. ‘ 
No. 49.—vor. 4. 73 
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