{ Perara jex, 3 [The Perats fix’, 
_Subrotunda, create = 
roundifh. 
concava : 7 | concave : 
‘duo exteriora (F. twoexterior, (F. 4. 
4. 9 Ca 3 7. CO 
minora, } lefs, 
-Inzequalia, - . ~ | unequal, 
Ctias. (Nondem siecake: = a .. the flower Estire 
Fi 3, & ee (R, 3. C)): gd 2 4 it is fully blown: 
5, 6, 7, 8. 7 6, 7, 8. (eS 3. Gy 
quatuor _interiora, four interior (F. 6. 
(F. 6.C.C.C.C, = tO 4. Cone 
BOTS) a | Fs.) 
Magna, 9 2 large, 
aqualia, ) ea. 
antequam decidunt, __ | before they fall off, 
recurvata. (F. 8. recurvate. (F. 8. 
C. C.} : BAe s 
* Among feveral hundred Re of dried Tea-flowers that I have examined, 
-fcarcely one in twenty was perfect. Some had three petals only, fome nine, and others. 
the feveral intermediate numbers. The greateft number confifted of fix large petals, 
and externally three leffer ones of the fame form. But the flowers, which bloffomed 
on the Tea-plant belonging to: the duke of Northumberland, from which this de- 
fcription is taken, confifted in general of fix petals. One of the flowers indeed’ 
appeared to have eight petals; however, the number in the flowersin moft plants 
=, confiderably, which may account for the miftake of Dr. Hill, and profeffor 
Linnzeus (who defcribed this plant on Dr. Hill’s authority), who make the green and. 
bohea. ‘Tea two diftinét fpecies, giving nine petals to the former, and fix to the > 
~Tatter. See Amoen. Acad. Vol. VII. p. 248. Hill. Exot. t. 22. Kampfer. Ameen.. 
Exot. p. 607. Breyn. Exot. Plant. Cent. 1. p. 111. Hift. de. l'Acad. Baie Sate 
1776, Pp. 52. 
‘Seuss, ; 
