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l)ut it is doubtful whether the perfume of these would be of 

 sufficient power (unless it strengthens by the slight fermentation 

 which takes place during the process). A flower having the 

 cowslip odour in a much stronger degree, is that of Fterocarpits 

 erinaceus, Poiret, the Kino tree of West Africa, a large tree 

 belonging to the Xatural Order Zef/unmioscc, native of Senegal, and 

 common between Senegambia and Angola. Lam. 111., p. 602, t. 4, 

 and Lam. Die, v., p. 728. Pharmacographia, p. 173. Pharm. 

 Journ., xiv. (1855), p. 55. The numerous papilionaceous flowers 

 (formed like those of the Cytisus Laluriium) are of a light yellow 

 colour, and diffuse a delicate fragrance, nearly resembling that of 

 the Cowslip, throughout the surrounding atmosphere. The flowers 

 expand in the months of February and March, a period when the 

 branches are entirely deprived of leaves. 



Besides the flowers already named, it is said that the leaves of 

 Camellia Sasanqua are used in the preparation of some scented 

 teas. 



Camellia Sasanqua is a tree of about ten feet in height; native of 

 China and Japan. Its leaves and flowers are much smaller than 

 those of C Japonica. The leaves dried in the shade have a very 

 sweet smell : a decoction of them is used by the women in Japan 

 to wash their hair with, and they are mixed with tea to give it a 

 'grateful odour ; indeed, they are not readily distinguished from 

 tlie leaves of that plant. C. Sasanqua is also cultivated to a great 

 extent on account of the fragrance and elegance of its flowers. The 

 leaves are ovate-oblong, serrated. Llowers terminal and axillary, 

 solitary, white. Branches villous. Thunb., Flor. Jap., p. 273, t. 30. 

 Syn., Sasanqua, Kicmpf. Amcen., 853. 



Var. a ; Semi- double white, Bot. Peg., t. 12. 

 Var. IB ; Double white, Bot. Peg., t. 1091. 



A species very similar to C. Sasanqua is the C Kissi (Wallich, 

 in As. Pes., xiii., p. 429), a shrub of about seven feet in height, 

 native of Xii)aul at Xarainhetty, where it is called " Kengna " by 

 the inhabitants. In the Xewar dialect it is called "Kissi" or 

 '■' Kissi-swa." The leaves of this shrub are elliptical, bluntly 

 acuminate and serrulated. Its wliite, fragrant flowers appear in 

 September ; they are sessile, generally solitary, axillary and 

 terminal, usually 4:-petalled, and with 3 distinct, furrowed, woolly 

 styles, which are about equal in length to the stamens. 



