EPUNGA. 
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habits it resembles the plant in cultivation about 
Canton, commonly called Thea bohea. 
Epunga, to which I was bound while making 
these observations, was reached in due course. I 
found the proprietor had a nice little private 
garden, and also a nursery in which he propa- 
gated and cultivated plants for sale. On the 
premises there was a building, apparently for the 
use of foreigners, which was only opened when 
any foreigner came out from Nagasaki for a day’s 
pleasure. Like many other places of the kind, its 
walls were defaced with the writing of the great 
men who had visited it, and who took this means 
of immortalising themselves. Doggrel lines, some 
of them scarcely fit to meet the eye, were ob- 
served in many places written in Dutch, German, or 
Russian. Our own countrymen had not been there 
long enough to visit the place and leave their 
marks ; doubtless these will be found also in good 
time. 
The nursery garden at Epunga was found to 
contain a large collection of Japanese plants — 
some of which were new to me — and others of 
great rarity and interest. Several species were 
purchased for my collection, and duly brought in 
to the town the next day. 
Having finished my examination of the nursery, 
I started, in company with some other gentlemen, 
on an expedition to the top of a hill some 1500 
feet above the level of the sea, and celebrated for 
the fine and extensive view to be obtained from 
