Aas) 
different kinds of Tea, and drying it in the fun, with feveral 
bafkets ftanding near them filled with a very white fubftance, 
and in confiderable quantity. To what ufe this may be applied 
is uncertain, as well as what the fubftance is; yet there is'no 
doubt, he thinks, that it is ufed in the manufacturing of, Tea, 
as the Chinefe feldom bring any thing into their pieces but fuch 
_as relate in fome refpect to the bufinefs before them. : 
We are better acquainted with a vegetable fubftance which 
has been employed by the Afiatics in giving a flavour to Tea. 
This is the Olea. Fragrans, whofe ‘flowers are frequently to be’ 
met with in Teas exported from China: and as the plant is now 
not unfrequent in the gardens near the metropolis, 1am enabled 
to give an engraving of the plant and its botanical hiftory '. 
Oxea Fracrans.—Sweet-{cented Olive. 
‘Clafs and Order. | 
Dianprra Monoeynia. 
Generic Characer. 
Cor. 4. fida: laciniis fubova- Corel... 4. cleft: fegments 
tis. Drupa monofperma. © fomewhat ovate. Drupe, one- 
sae 
* See Thunberg’s Flora Japonica, from which work the —— ‘Hiftory of the 
Olea Fragrans is chiefly taken. 
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