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provinces, where the Tea plant is cultivated. In America Steitartia 

 and Gordonia attain nearly the same northern limits as the latter in 

 the Himalayas. In America, as in Oceania, they do not extend far- 

 ther south than the 30th degree. This family can scarcely be said 

 to be represented in tropical Africa by a few rare species found in the 

 East or in the West. Visnea is confined to Madeira and the Canary 

 Isles. In the warm regions of Asia and the Indian Archipelago we 

 meet with the following genera : — The a, Anneslea, Adinandra, Eurya, 

 Schima, Pceciloneuron, Pyrenaria, Ternstrremia, Eroteum, Saurauja, 

 Steuartia, Gordonia : the five last are found in tropical America. A 

 hundred and forty species belong to it, as well as all the Marc- 

 graviea, and Caryocarea, the genera Laplacea, Bonnetia, Kielmeyera, 

 Haploclathra, Marila, and Mahurea. Caraipa and Archytaa, almost 

 entirely American, are, however, each represented also by one species, 

 one in tropical Africa, and the other in the Indian Archipelago. 



But few species are usefully applied, 1 and by far the most 

 widely spread is the Tea plant. Most botanists agree in regarding 

 as simple forms or varieties of T. chinensis* (figs. 244-252), T. 

 viridis, 3 jBohea, 4 cochinch'mensis'" cantoniensis? stricfa, 7 assamica, 8 

 &c. ; it is the Tscha or Theh of the Chinese, and the Tsja of the 

 Japanese, 9 an evergreen shrub from 1 to 2 yards high, which, a 

 native of the extreme east of continental and perhaps of insular Asia, 

 has been transported to the Nilgherry mountains, to Malabar, 10 to 

 the south of the United States, 11 to Brazil, 12 &c. As to the numerous 

 commercial kinds of Tea, black or green, they owe their physical 



1 Endl., Fnchirid., 532. — Lindl., Veg. 

 Kingd., 396. — ROSENTH., Syn. Plant. Diaph., 

 737. 



2 Sims., in Bot. Mag,, t. 998. — DC, Prodr., i. 

 530, n. 1.— A. Rick., FUm., ed. 4, ii. 520.— 

 Seem., in Trans. Linn. Soc, xxii. 349. — Guib., 

 Drog. Simpl., ed. 6, iii. 628, fig. 739. Rosenth., 

 op. cit., 738. — R£v., in Fl. Med. du xix e siecle, 

 Atl., iii. t. 43.— MoQ., Bot. Med., 163, fig. 51. 



3 L., Spec, 735. — Letts., Mon., t. 1. 



4 L. Spec, 743.— Blackw., Herb., t. 352 — 

 Loisel., Herb. Amat., t. 255. 



5 Lour., Fl. Cochinch., ed. ulyssip. (1790), 

 338.— DC, Prodr., loc cit., n. 2 (vulg. Che an 

 nam., ex Lottk.). 



6 Lour., op. cit., 339 {Ho nam Cha yong ; 

 Che taa). 



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7 Heyn., Arzn. (ex Rosenth., op. cit., 739. 



8 Mast, (ex Seem., loc. cit., 349). 



9 On this plant, its use, its preparation, and its 

 properties, see K^empf., Them Jap. Hist, (in 

 Amcen. Fxot., 605-631), and the numerous 

 works enuniei-ated in the Thesaurus of Pritzel, 

 ed. i. p. 462. 



10 See Pharm. Journ., ser. 2, i. 475. — 

 MacClele., Pep. on the Phys. Cond. of the 



Assam Tea PL, Calc. (1838) ; Pop. r el for 



Introd. the . . . Tea PI. in Ind., Calc. (1839). — 

 Griff., Rep. on the Tea PI. of Upp. Ass., Calo. 

 (1838). 



11 See Pharm. Journ., loc cit., 429. 



12 Gullem., Bapp. . . . sur les Cult, et la Pre- 



par. du The Paris (1839). — Guib., loc. 



cit., 632. 



