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THE TROPICAL AGRICULTURIST. 
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being sold for seed from the eld Botanic Gardens at 
Kaluiara, and the uibtribution oontiuued after re- 
moval to Pcradeniya inl821; l ut he (D--. Trimen) 
boliev^a the int^oduc ion took place by Moon eaily 
in this century, I8i(j-i9 (see T. A. Vol. X.) la 
1833, many tee.Js weie seni out, and in 1343 plants 
\\ere sold at the ra'e ot 4a a dozen. Bonnett 
thought the Eoil of ihe ^orthorn Province and of 
the dis'riot o( Kalutara well suited to this product, 
suggeBtiug that lines of pUntains should be piantud 
beiween the cacaos. The cacao was certainly cul- 
tivated in Peradeuiya Gardens so far back as 1824, 
in Mooii's timo, and has been grown there ever siuoe. 
It is said that Governor Wiimot Hortun iotroduoed 
a case of Trinidad cacao plants about 1831-5, which 
were grown at tbo Pavilioa, Kan.ly, and aiso at 
Peradeuiya Ga d>ns. Fion a tree in on Army 
Surgeon's garden m Kandy, the lite Mc. R. B. 
Tytier got seed which he utilized on Pailakellia 
estate, in the Dumb^ra Valley, tte trejs being in- 
tended for oruamantal purposes around his bunga- 
low. Tue ttejs flourished bearing fruit whion was 
allowed to fall to the squirrels until 1872-3, whfn 
a gathering being made of the p:)d8 and the seeds 
prepared, a sample was sent to London and valued 
at 70s per owt., and then Mr. Tjtler began its syste- 
matio cultivation. The 48-years old trees at Palla- 
kellie are still vigorously bearing fruit. 
INDIAN PATENTS. 
Calcutta, the 24th Aug. 1893. 
Specifications of the ni.dermetjtioned inventions 
have been fikd. 
No. 34 of 1893.— William Carey LeeobmaD, of 92, 
Sinclnir Ro<td, lu ihe County of MiUdlesex, Kngland, 
Meichnut, fur an impri)Ve>1 preparation of tti«» end 
the process of njakiug ihe eaine. (Field 26lh July 
1893.) 
JNo. 161 of 1889.— VViliism Alfrtd Gibbs, of Gdwell 
P rk I Seward-Stone, in the County ot Esses, Engiaud, 
Geuileman, for improvements lu or connected with 
furnaces and apfaratue for the production of hot 
air and lor dr>iDg coif ► e, witbcriui; aud fishing tea, 
nud for other drying purpi^sea- (From 23nd Aug. 
1893 to aist Aug. 1894.) 
Whereas the iuveuio; s of the UDUetmentioned in- 
veolioua nave rtspeciively lai ed to pay witbiu the 
time limited in that beuaif by ihe 4lh Schedule to 
the iiiVeutions and Designs amdAcl (Vol 1888) [or 
within the i jriher time allowed under section 8, 
Bub-section (4> ot Ihe Act] the fee hereinafter men- 
tioned, it ia tiereby noiitied thai, under the pro- 
VI810U8 of section 8, sub-eectiou (2) of the said Act, 
the exclusive pfivil-jje of making, selliLg, and using 
the said invent!! ni iu Briiisb luilia aud ot authorising 
others so to do nas ceased : — 
No. 60 of 1883 —Mr. B. C. S>;hnmaoher's inven- 
tion fur au iaii roved method of winnowing aud 
ch-aniug rice and other grain seeds «nd hurries and 
apparatna therefor. (Specificition filed loth M^y 
1889.)— i«rfia/! Engineer, Sept. 2ud. 
TEA IN THE CENTUEY DICTIONAEY. 
The following from the latest Diotionary is worth 
quotirg in a t; a-growing country ; — 
_ " Tba-tbke (te-tre.e), n. 1. The common tea-plant or 
ti-a-fhtub. Sei tea 1, 2. — 2. A nams of various 
myrtactous and oihtr plauts, chiefiy of the geuira 
Lcptospcnaurn aLd Melaleuca, found in AustraliH, Tas- 
mauiB, and Ntw Zejland. See phrates boloft. Very 
abuudant und couBploouus, especially lu Now Zealand, 
ia L. scopariaiii, ihe broom tea-tree, known also as 
Ua-scrub. It ia au ereoi rigid ebrub, or iu the 
luountaiuft pio-tlraie, irom 1 to 12 fett high, forming 
douse thioketK, with Katbeiy sharp-pointed folia^^e, 
cohered for two inoutba with abnudaut smaU white 
blotBoms, Its wood though email, Is hard and useful 
for turaing, etc. L. lanigerum, Ibe Fasmatiiiin tea 
tree (found also iu Australia), is a somewhat larger, 
very abundant ^hrub or tree, with a hurd cven- 
graiiiid wood. The h aves of b );h are reput -d to 
have been used by G plain Cook 01: early colonists 
a^ tea, which may account for t!.e name, but (heoative 
Australiiin name of tte fcirmer ia ti. Melaleuca un- 
cinatA, the ccmtuon tea-tree, ia a «hrub, or eomeliums 
a tree from 40 to 80 ftet high, with hard, heavy, durable 
wiod, widely diffused in Australia. 
" Even the grass itself is 1 ot indigeijons, all these 
fail's [in New Ze.dandl haviug till recf utly baeu densely 
clotht-d with a thicket ot tea-tree, which is a shrub 
fomew! at resembling Juniper or a gigantic heather- 
bush, its foliage Cjusifting of tity netdles, while ita 
delicate whiti blossoDia resemble myrtle. It ia called 
by the Maoris maaakau, but the settlers have a tradi- 
tion that Cupt^iu Cook and his men ODoe made tea of 
its twigs ; hence, thej , the D»me. It ie, however, 
noteworthy that this plant is called ii by tha Austra- 
lian blacks, so it is prol able I hat the nume was brought 
t lither by some co'.ouist from the sister isle. — C. F, O. 
Cumming, in The Cenlurj-, XXVII. 920. 
" Africaa tea-tree. See Lycium. — Bottle-grcea tea- 
tree, an evergreou myttaceous shrnb, Kunzea corifo- 
lia, of Australia and T-ismania.— Bro»d-leavtd tea-tr^e, 
a myrtaceous shrub or tree, Callistemon salignus, ot 
Australia und Tasmania. Its wood is very cloae- 
graired. bard andheavy.- Ceylon tea-tree, Elaodendron 
glaueum. — Duke of Argyll's tea-tree. See Lyciwtn. — 
Prickly tea-tree. Some &i naamharr. — Red scrub tea- 
tree, the Australian Rhodamnia trinervia, a mjrtaceoaa 
shrub or tree. Also called three-veined myrtle. — Swamp 
tea-lree, Jlelaleuca squarroaa, ot Australia and Tas- 
mania, a shrub, or sometimes a tree, with biird heavy 
wood, the bark in thin layers. M. armillaris is also 
60 called in Taamania. — Tasmmian tea-iree. See 
rief. 2. — White tea-tree, Leptospermum ericoides, of New 
Zealand, a shrub, or a tree 40 or 30 feet high. The 
wood is hard and denae. 
"Tea-urn (♦e'ern), n. A vessel used on the tea-table 
for boiling water or keepiug water hot : it differs 
from the tei-kcttle chiefly in having a fanoet or c.ck 
inste'd ot a spout, so that it has not to be moved 
or tipped for drawing hot water. '"At the head of 
the table there wag an old silver tea-oru, looting 
heavy enmgh to have the weight ot whole generations 
in it, into which at the momeut of sitting down a 
scrioue-visageJ waiting-maid dropped a red-hot weight, 
aud forthwith the noi»e of a violent boiling arose." 
—H. B. Stowe, Oldtown, p. 294. 
In reference to the "Ceylon tea-tree," (E. glaueum) 
we applied to the Direotor, Royal Botanio Gardens, 
for an explanation and he has kindly informed 
us that General Hay MaoDowall was, apparently, 
responsible for the name which was adopted from 
him by Roxburgh. But " all about " the tree we 
find in Dr. Trimea's "Flora" page 272 as follows ; — 
E. glaueum, Pers. Syn. i. 241 (1805). Is'e.ala S. 
Piyari, Perun-Pijari, T. 
Schrebera aliens, Ketz. Obs. vi. 25. Celastrvs glaucus, 
Vahl, Symb. Bot. ii. 42. Moon Cat. 17. Thw. Euum. 
73. C. P. 1227. 
PI. B. lud. i. 623. Wight, 111. t. 71 (E. EoxburgUi). 
Retz. Oba. vi. t. 3. 
A small tree, much dicbotomonsly branched, hark 
worted, thick, brownish-grey, twi^s slenJer, young 
parts glabrous; 1. opp. 2-3 iu., variable, oval or 
roundish-oval, acute at base, obtuse, often twisted at 
apex, shallowly serrate-orenate or entire, glabrous, 
rather coriaccouF, g'aucous, reticulate, petiole \ in. 
or more, slip, minute, triaugalar ; fl. under | i 1., 
numerous, in Vtry divaricate, BSillary, or txtra- 
axillary, paniculate, dichotomoua cymes, ped. long, 
glabrous ; sep. almost distinct, rounded ; pel obloug, 
obtuse, distant ; stam. much shorter thau pet., snth. 
roundish ; disk obscurely lobed ; drupe ovoid, J — i in,, 
apicalate, glabroue, stoue bony. 
Var. /3. moutanum, Thw. Euum. 73. C. P. 2520. 
L less glaucous ; fl. much larger, ^ in. ; fr. larger} in. 
Dry country ; common, especially near the coast, 
Var. jj, lower montane zone, from 3000 to 4300 feet j 
