May 1861.] 



Scientific Intelligence. 



145 



7. The Tea shrub of commerce, though long confined to East- 

 ern Asia, is now cultivated far beyond the limits of China, and 

 Japan, in Java, (under the Equator) in Assam, the North West 



Provinces of Hindustan, on 



Java, (under Equator) Siam and China the banks of the Rio Janeiro, 



10 c to 31 p N. L. (Fortune.) , . . _ T ^ . 

 Rio de Janeiro 22%° S. L. Tang-chow- and recently m North Ame- 

 foo 36° N. L. (Reeves.) rica> From the published re- 

 Principal districts between 27 9 and 31 p olir _ 



N. L. (Fortune.) ports of Mr. r ortune and Dr. 



* Selections from the Records of the Jameson,* it appears to pre- 



Government of India, No. XXIII. r v , , ~ nhc , 



2g 5 Y ier a climate probably oi 67 



to 73° mean temperature* 



Such is nearly the mean temperature of the hill slopes near Kunur, 



Kotagiri, and of many of the valleys in the Eastern and Northern 



slopes of the Pulni and Nilgiri Rills, and also of the Bababooden 



range in Mysore, and of Kudra Muka in South Canara* 



8. It ought also to be observed, as illustrative of the hardi- 

 ness of the Tea shrub, that the cultivation extends over a great 

 breadth of latitude (from the banks of the Rio Janeiro 22J Q 

 South Latitude, to the Province of Shan-ting in China 36j North 

 Latitude,) and that as we recede from the equator, the lowe 

 latitude compensates for the difference of altitude. The Chinese 

 cultivate on the lower slopes of the Hills, whilst in the North 

 West Provinces, the culture is carried on between 2,000 and 

 6,000 feet. 



9. This valuable plant has been found wild in Upper Assa.ni 

 land Cachar, whilst its congeners about on the Nilgiri and other 

 mountain ranges of this Presidency. Its cultivation, therefore 

 might be attempted with good prospect of success in any of the 

 localities mentioned in paragraph 7. In the case of Captain Mann's 

 L Mr. H. Ricketts, B. C. S. plantation n-ar Kunur, we 



4 Stanishforth, B. C. S. nave the opinion of four 



, Vlajor R. Strachey, Bengal Engineers. competent judgesf that the 

 Captain Impey, Bengal Engineers. . . _ , 



experiment had entirely 



jiucceeded as regards the growth of the plant. 



It now only remains to prove the merchantable character of the 

 leaf, and this I hope will soon be tested. 



i 10. So far as I can judge, the aid of a few practised manipu- 



