TEA TREE. 
exist. The great Linnaeus, indeed, has in 
some measure adopted this idea. He says» 
that there are two species : the Bobea, the co- 
rolla of which has six petals ; and the Viridis, 
or Green Tea, which has nine petals. 
Even the class to which the Tea Tree must 
be referred, is disputed — Linnseus arranged it 
under the class of Polyandria, and order of 
Monogynia. Into this mistake, as it is called^ 
he is said to have been led, by having only 
specimens of the dried flower to examine: 
but, it is ingeniously remarked, if Llnn^us 
has thus fallen into error, it is surprizing that 
he has not been corrected by one who had the 
best opportunity of examining the matter; and 
Sir Charles Thvmberg, oae of the most dis- 
tinguished pupils of that illustrious botanist, 
who resided sixteen months in Batavia and 
Japan, and has given a full botanical descrip- 
tion of the Tea Plant, expressly says that it 
has only one style. Several of our Britiih 
botanists, however, on the other hand, refer 
it to the order of Trigynia ; deriving their 
authority froin a plant in the Duke of Nor- 
thumberland's 
