Unap. XI.] TEA DISTRICTS VISITED. 199 
commonly called the black tea plant. In the green 
tea districts of the north—I allude more par- 
ticularly to the province of Chekiang—I never 
met with a single plant of this species, which is So 
common in the fields and gardens near Canton. 
All the plants in the green tea country near 
Ning-po, on the Islands of the Chusan Archipelago, 
and in every part of the province which I had an 
opportunity of visiting, proved, without exception, 
to be the Thea viridis. Two hundred miles further 
to the north-west, in the province of Kiang-nan, 
and only a short distance from the tea hills in that 
quarter, I also found in gardens this same species 
of tea. 
Thus far my actual observation exactly verified 
the opinions I had formed-on the subject before 
I left England, viz., that the black teas were pre- 
pared from the Thea Bohea, and the green from 
Thea viridis. When I left the north, on my way 
to the city of Foo-chow-foo, on the River Min, in 
the province of Fokien, I had no doubt that I 
should find the tea hills there covered with the 
other species, Thea Bohea, from which we generally 
suppose the black teas are made; and this was the 
more likely to be the case as this species actually 
derives its specific name from the Bohee hills, in 
this province. Great was my surprise to find all 
the plants on the tea hills near Foo-chow exactly 
the same as those in the green tea districts of the 
north. Here were then green tea plantations on 
the black tea hills, and not a single plant of the 
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