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leaves are long and lanceolate. The Shiraz tobacco is very 

 celebrated ; it is in yellow tough leaves, often much broken. 



Latakia. — This, which we also receive from Turkey, 

 comes from the Turkish province of Latakia, formerly the 

 ancient Laodicea; it is produced by another variety of 

 iV. rustica. Latakia tobacco consists of the leaves together 

 with the panicles of flowers and buds, with about four 

 inches of the pedicels attached ; the leaves and flowers appear 

 to be laid in layers one upon the other to a considerable 

 thickness and then pressed together, until they form com- 

 pact hands, about the size of a man's head. The colour is a 

 dark brown. 



Chinese. — The author has met with two kinds of tobacco 

 from China : one in small yellow ovate leaves of a bright 

 yellow colour, not tied in hands, and not more than four 

 inches in length j the other in hands consisting of dark brown 

 lanceolate leaves, eighteen inches long and very smooth. 

 Neither are of common occurrence in this country; the 

 former is probably a variety of N. rustica ; the latter is un- 

 doubtedly N. Chinensis, a perennial tobacco of large growth. 



European Tobaccos : — 



Dutch and German are furnished by two or three species, 

 especially N. Tabacum and N. rustica. 



