BOTANICAL CHARACTERISTICS AND FORM. 



and divided into five segments. The flowers are white, 

 axilary and slightly fragrant, often three together in 

 separate pedicils, the corolla having from five to nine 

 petals, cohering at the base with filaments numerous and 

 inverted at the base of the corolla. The anthers are large, 



Thea Sinensis. 



yellow and tre-foil, the capsule three-celled and three- 

 seeded; and like all other plants in a state of cultivation, 

 it has produced marked varieties, two of which Thea 

 viridis and Thea bohea are critically described as distinct 

 species, distinguished from each other in size, color, form 

 and texture of the leaves, as well as other peculiarities. 



