By Mr. William Beattie Booth. 559 



The flowers of this species, though neither shewy nor 

 handsome, possess a most delicious fragrance like those of 

 the orange, which renders it a very desirable plant for cul- 

 tivation. It is much hardier than the other species, and 

 will even bear the winters of this climate without pro- 

 tection. 



A very good representation is given by Dr. Lettsom, 

 in his Natural History of the Tea Tree, and another has 

 subsequently been published by Messrs. Loddiges, in their 

 Botanical Cabinet, fol. 227. It is the Thea viridis of Linnjeus 

 and of Willdenow ; the Thea Bohea stricta of the Hortus 

 Kewensis ; and the Thea Chinensis viridis of the Botanical 

 Magazine, and of M. Decandolle. 



II. Thea Bohea. 

 Bohea Tea-tree. 



Th. Bohea ; foliis elliptico-lanceolatis serratis planis nitidis. 



This species differs widely from the one already described, 

 although by many it has been confounded with it. In its 

 growth it is much more lax and upright, and produces its 

 flowers in greater abundance ; they also do not open till a 

 month after those of Thea viridis. It is recorded in the 

 Botanical Cabinet, vol. 3, p. 226, not to have been introduced 

 until 1780. It is by no means so hardy as Thea viridis, and 

 requires to be kept in a warm and airy situation, in the 

 Greenhouse or Conservatory, during winter. 



The leaves are alternate, elliptic-lanceolate, serrate (not emarginate as those of 

 Thea Viridis) nearly flat, quite smooth on both sides, coriaceous, and of a very 

 dark shining green; they are usually 2h inches long, and nearly an inch broad, 

 with a prominent midrib, and pale green ; the under side of the leaf is also much 

 paler and more glossy than the upper. The flowers are axillary, usually two or 



