80 TEA — TEE 



TEA (v. also Tee). Many indigenous herbs or shrublets are 

 employed as tea for daily consumption or medicinal pur- 

 poses. None of them, with the exception of Gatfia, con- 

 tain any alkaloid. In most cases the reason for the use 

 appears to be some aromatic substance, e.g. Helichrysum, 

 Leyssera, Psoralea, etc. 



Black — (Na). Obtained from Eugenia Zeyheri. 

 „ „ (Clanwilliam and Piquetberg). Aspalathus 

 tenuifolia. Leaves very similar in appearance to 

 Rooibos — , but black (when prepared for use). 



Bu«h — . Several kinds. The most frequently employed 

 shrublet is Cyclopia Vogelii (Honey — , Boer — ) 

 from the mountains of Swellendam, etc. On the Cape 

 Peninsula it is the narrow-leaved G. genistoides, 

 and along the coast C. tenuifolia (Vlei tee). 

 The fresh leaves are subjected to a kind of fermenta- 

 tion by keeping them in a tightly packed heap for 

 some days. After this process of '' sweating " they 

 are dried in the sun. They contain several specific 

 substances not known from other plants, viz., 

 cyclopine and cyclopia-red, but no tannin. 



Bushman^s — . Catha edulis. A tree widely spread in 

 eastern Africa, from Egypt to the Cape. Cultivated 

 in Abyssinia, etc., where the leaves are employed like 

 China-tea. Contains the stimulating alkaloid katine. 



Hottentot's — , Helichrysum serpyllifolium and 

 H. auriculatum. Both herbs aromatic. (Ca). 



Kaffir— (Na). Athrixia pTiylicoides. 

 Teak. Several indigenous trees, their timber somewhat 

 resembling the real — , Tectona grandis, (East Ind.). The 

 African — is Oldfieldia africana (Trop.) ; the Cape — , 

 Strychnos Atherstonei (Transkei, etc.) ; the Rhodesian — , 

 Gopaifera coleosperma ; and the Transvaal — , Adina 

 Galpinii as well as Pterocarpus erinaceus. 



TEE (v. also Tea). 



Berg — , Geranium incanum; Bos — , v. Bush tea; Doorn 

 — , Gliffortia iUcifolia; Duine — , Helichrysum 

 imhricatum, similar to the Hottentot's — ,both trail- 

 ing aromatic herbs; Geel'bloninietje — , Leyssera 

 gnaphaloides (Coast distr.) ; Glas — , Gliffortia 

 ferruginea; Honger — , Leyssera gnaphaloides, said 

 to stimulate the appetite ; Hottentots — , Helichrysum 



