DISCOURSE I. 
A Defer iption of the Tea Shrub, Leaf, 
Flowers, and Seeds, 
E M P F E R in his Amcemtates 
Exoticce , and in the Appendix to 
the fecond Volume of his Hiftory of 
Japan , gives the fulled: and trued: Account 
of this Shrub and its Leaf, that I have yet 
found ; which 1 fhall therefore borrow here* 
The Pea-tree is a Shrub that grows but 
flowly ; it rifes to fix Foot and higher, has 
a black, woody, irregular branched Root. 
Its Bark is dry, thin, weak, chefnut co- 
loured, greyifli on the Stem, and fomewhaf 
inclined to green on the Extremities of the 
Twigs 5 it is firm, and adheres clofely to the 
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