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Order TERNSTRCEMIACE^I. 



(Tea Family.) 

 Plants of this order furnish us with the well-known tea, oils, and tanning barks. 



Teibe Goedonie^e. 

 CAMELLIA, Linn. 



japonica, Linn. A.B. 



Garden Varieties — 



Adriana, B. Incarnata. A.B. 



Alba pleno. A.B. Isabella. B. 



Auguste Delfosse. A.B. Jenny Lind. A.B. 



Blanda. B. Jubilee. A.B. 



Candidissima. A.B. La Constitution. B. 



Clias. Albert. A.B. Lady Parker. B. 



Compacta alba. B. Lady St. Clair. B. 



Countess. B. Lavinia Maggi Bosea. A.B. 



Countess of Oxford. A. Perfection. A.B. 



Duchesse de Berri. B. Princess Mary of Cambridge. A.B. 



Fimbriata. A.B. Princess of Wales. B. 



Heleanor. B. , Queen Victoria. A.B. 



Henri Favre. B. Venus de Medici. A.B. 

 Imbricata. A.B. 



Thea, Link. ; the Tea-plant ; sh.'; Assam and China. A.B. 

 The dried leaves of this shrub constitute the tea of commerce. "Weight of wood per cubic 

 foot, 56 lbs. Black or green teas are prepared from the same plant by peculiar methods of drying 

 or curing, the leaves made up into green being more rapidly dried and not permitted to remain in 

 a moist and flaccid state so long as those intended for black tea. The consumption of tea in 

 Great Britain amounts to somewhere about 165,079,881 lbs. a year. The total import in 1882 was 

 about 211,080,000, of which British India furnished 53,927,998. 



var. assamica ; sh. ; Assam. A. 



Alliance MALVALES. 



Order MALVACEAE. 



(Mallow Family.) 



This large order is remarkable for yielding a gelatinous gum free from noxious properties 

 The inner layers of the bark often produce excellent fibre. 



Tbibe Malve^;. 

 ALTHAEA, Linn. ; Hollyhock. 



rosea, Cav. ; her. per. ; China. A.B. 

 The leaves of this well-known garden plant furnish a blue dye. 

 SIDA, Linn, 



rhombifolia, Linn. (S. retusa) ; sh. ; India and Australia. A.B. 

 From this very troublesome weed a most excellent fibre is obtained, both in India and 

 Queensland. 



KYDIA, Eoxb. 



calycina, Hoxb. ; sh. ; East India. A. 

 The bark is mucilaginous, and employed in the northern provinces of India to clarify sugar. 



ABUTILON, Gcertn, ; Chinese Lantern. 

 Alice (New), 

 angusta. A. 

 Paswald. A. 

 aurea globosa. B. 



