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Messrs. Gow, WILSON, AND STANTON to ROYAL Garpens, Kew. 
13, Rood Lane, London, E.C., 
SIR, 13th August, 1896. 
E duly received your kind letter of last Tuesday's date, together 
with the sample of tea you had received from Persia, "This class of tea 
In London this class of tea is called Flowery Pekoe vei and the 
last lot that we remember having seen, which was some two or three years 
e ourselves sold to a client in Constantinople, the tós evidently 
being destined for the Persian market. 
e name by which you say it is known in Persia, * White Tea," ver y 
truly describes the article, but the particular Cope which you sent is 
not so white or silky as some we have previously se 
or home consumption this tea is not worth mu eh | more than Is. per 
pore but for export purposes, to the market that you named, 
good specimens command as much as ve € per pound, 
(Signed) - - dew, WILSON, AND STANTON. 
Dr. Morris, C.M.G., 
Assistant Director. 
Royal Gardens, Kew. 
DXXVII.—DECADES KEWENSES 
PLANTARUM NOVARUM iN HERBARIO Hort REGII ConserRVATARUM, 
DECADES XXVIII.—XXX. 
271. Grewia batangensis, T: right peg arborea, ramis teretibus 
foliis ovatis acuminatis glabris membranaceis breviter petiolatis nervis 
secundariis 6-7, cymis asillaribas eray r sepalis ligulatis subtus et 
supra ad marginem pubescentibus, polais quam sepala multo d 
orbiculatis hirsutis basi intus foveolatis, filamentis sepalis zequilon 
tenuibus, antheris oblongis, ovario Mena hirsuto, stylo Mondinibus 
wquilongo hirsuto, ovulis pluribus 
— . Tropical Africa: Batanga, G. L. Bates, 328. 
Arbor 15-pedalis. Folia 5-6 poll. oe 21 poll. lata, Sepala 
6 lin. tg 1 lin. lata. Petala 1 lin. dia 
272. Eleocarpus floridanus, Hemsl, [Tili licd] ; præter flores fere 
omnino glaber, ramulis floriferis crassiusculis, foliis longe petiolatis 
tenuiter coriaceis ovatis. obtusis basi cuneatis remote crenulatis venis 
bifoveolatis, E puberulis, antheris longe apiculatis, ovario glabro 
stylo filiformi stamina superante, drupis globosis pisiformibus nitidis., 
a Islands; Florida Island, H. B. Guppy, 231. 
