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provinces, where the Tea plant is cultivated. In America S’evartia 
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 :—Zhea, Anneslea, Adinandra, Eurya, 
Schima, Peciloneuron, Pyrenaria, Ternstremia, 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 JMJare- 
gravieæ, and Caryocaree, the genera Laplacea, Bonnetia, Kielmeyera, 
Haploclathra, Marila, and Mahurea. Caraipa and Archytea, 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,’ and by far the most 
widely spread is the Tea plant. Most botanists agree in regarding 
as simple forms or varieties of 7! chinensis’ (figs. 244-252), 7. 
viridis,’ Bohea,’ cochinchinensis cantoniensis, stricta,’  assamica, 
&e.; itis the Zscha or Thch of the Chinese, and the 7474 of the 
Japanese, 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,” to 
the south of the United States," to Brazil,” &c. As to the numerous 
commercial kinds of Tea, black or green, they owe their physical 
1 Enpt., Enchirid., 532. — Linpu., Veg. 7 HEYN., Arzn. (ex ROSENTH., op. cit., 739. 
Kingd., 396.—Rosentu., Syn. Plant. Diaph., 
737. 
? Srms., in Bot, Mag., t.998.—DC., Prodr., i. 
530, n.1.—A. Ricu., Elém., éd. 4, ii, 520.— 
SEEM., in Zrans. Linn. Soc., xxii. 349.—GUuIB., 
Drog. Simpl., éd, 6, iii, 628, fig. 739. ROSENTH,, 
op. cit., '738.—Rfy., in Fl, Méd. du xix® siècle, 
Atl., iii. t. 43.—Moo., Bot. Med., 163, fig. 51. 
3 L., Spec., '735.—Lerrs., Mon., t. 1. 
1 L. Spec., 743.—BLackw., Herb., t. 352.— 
Loisez., Herb, Amat., t, 255. 
5 Lour., Fl. Cochinch., ed. ulyssip. (1790), 
338.—DC., Prodr., loc. cit., n. 2 (vulg. Ché dn 
nâm., ex LOUR.), E 
® Lour., op. cit., 339 (Ho nam Cha yong; 
Che tau). 
Vol. IV. 
8 Mast. (ex SEEM., loc. cit., 349). 
% On this plant, its use, its preparation, and its 
properties, sce KæmPr., Thee Jap. Hist. (in 
Amen. Exot., 605-631), and the numerous 
works enumerated in the Thesaurus of PRITZEL, 
ed. i, p. 462, 
10 See Pharm, Journ., sér. 2, i. 475.— 
MacCrett., Rep. on the Phys. Cond, of the 
Assam Tea PI, Calc. (1838); Pop. rel.... for 
Introd, the... Tea Pl. in Ind., Cale. (1839).— 
Grirr., Rep. on the Tea Pl. of Upp. Ass., Cale. 
(1838). 
11 See Pharm. Journ., loc. cit., 429. 
12 GuLLEM., Rapp. ...sur les Cult, et la Pré- 
par. dw Thé..... Paris (1839).—Gurs., loc. 
cit., 632, 
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