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given in the Kew Bulletin, 1890, p. 109. This is manufactured at 
Hankow in two qualities: the inferior from common tea-dust bn 
adheres after being steamed in a pudding-cloth and pressed by 
the superior from the finest tea-dust which is selected with great tan 
The latter is manufactured into tablets by steam machinery in a vo: 
mould. Besides these tablet teas there is a pressed tea called brick te 
used in Chinese Mongolia and Tibet. This is made of the whole leat 
a 
of loca merce 
urmah. Pony caravans carry it for sale to Mandalay and other 
neighbouring markets, and the Flotilla Company's steamers on the 
rawady carry, sometimes, hundreds of baskets of this tea as Aen cargo.. 
Mason’s “ ore h,” 1860, p. 505, there is a reference to a tea-tree 
from which € e Burmese made a tea called “let-pet-ben.” On the 
authority of De. McClelland this a was LEleodendron orientale. 
There are references to the tea under the name of “pickled tea” in 
p. 449, whe 
European planters at Chittagong have endeavoured to prepare pickled tea 
forthe Burma market with some degree of te gti e is added : 
895. "There is no doubt the plant yielding it is the ordinary 
tea-plant (Camellia ds The identification of it as E/codendron 
orientale was fro improbable, as the latter icta is limited 
to Mauritius. and Madagascan, t and is unknown in Burma or, indeed, in 
any part of our Indian posse 
'The following official CUtTpotrdams gives a very complete account of 
the Leppett tea industry :— 
Inpia Orrick TO ROYAL GARDENS, Kew. 
India Office, Whitehall, S.W., 
Sin, 30th October 1894. 
I Ax directed by the Secretary of State for India to forward . 
herewith a copy of a letter from me Sorenmont of India, together with 
a note by Mr. W. A. Graham o “ Leppett ” " tea the product of the 
plant Llzodendron orientale.* 
The specimens of * Leppett " tea Wr to in the above letter have 
been forwarded to your address by cai 
adi, à : 
(Signed) . C. È BERNARD, 
Secretary. 
The precor, Revenue and Statistics Department. 
oyal Gardens, Kew. 
adders: correction in Kew letter dated 25th November 1894: the plant is Camellia 
theifera 
