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cimens, some also tend to be lanceolate acuminate, but still 
retain their bluntness, the calyx is not even ciliate. 
The permanent points are, curved pedicels annulate about 
the centre, blunt leaves, this tendency seems to disappear in the 
Assam plants. especially those which are caudate acuminate. 
The plant from which the above is taken has been in- 
troduced into Pringitt’s Garden, it there forms a densely 
branched rather ragged shrub of 3-4 ft. in height. » 
The leaves are very coriaceous serrated subacuminate, 
patent recurved convex above, margins subrecurved. 
The length is equal to two breadths ; flowers solitary or two 
axillary nodding subsecund, pedicel annulate articule about 
the middle, with one bractea above. 
Calyx shortly pubescent, and ciliate, corolla separating. 
with the stamina, adhering, but separable without laceration. 
Bud-scales sericeous, perhaps not exceeding 3, much like 
a leaf, vernation conduplicate margin once involute. 
The differences between it and the Assam plant are in habit, 
all the parts being here approximated not distant: small, 
very coriaceous scarcely acuminate leaves, a less bracteate 
pedicel, pubescent calyx, pubescence of ovarium. 
Emarginate connective, stout and shorter style, stigmata 
punctiform at the apex of the branches. 
irection of the ovula, non-auriculate cotyledons, and 
non-included radicle, long radicle, and small plumule. 
In both the pedicels are annulate, not articulate, the an- 
nulus arising from the scar of 2 confluent bractes which in 
the Tea open spathiformly. Pl. DCII. Fig. II. 
Assam indigenous Tea Plant. 
Stature large, parts distant. Leaves very large, in the dried 
state black and not of a leathery appearance, very acuminate 
or cuspidato-acuminate occasionally acute, flowers axillary 
nodding, pedicel of expanded flower annulate scar about the 
middle, leaves of the calyx smooth, except the ciliated pubes- 
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