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any occupation requiring the use of his hands, it is suspended 
from the neck by means of a small chain. It is frequently mix- 
ed with a little lemon juice, and is used either with or without 
sugar. European travellers with whom I have conversed, pre- 
fer this to any of the teas imported from China. The Paraguay 
tea is the more remarkable, from its being the produce of a spe- 
cies of holly, a genus hitherto considered as deleterious. It is 
described and figured under the name of Ilex Paraguensis in 
an Appendix to the 2d volume of Mr Lambert’s work on the 
genus Pinus , and is noticed by M. Auguste St Hilaire in the 
“ Memoires du Museum,” under the name of Ilex Mate , and 
by Drs Spix and Martius, in their Brazilian Travels, under that 
of Vex Gongonha. It has an extensive geographical range, be- 
ing found in the extensive woody regions of Paraguay, watered 
by the Parana, the Ypane, and Jejni, in the province of the 
Minas Geraes, and other districts of Brazil ; and it appears to 
have been found in Guiana by M. Martin, as there are numerous 
specimens in his Herbarium, part of which is in the possession 
of Mr Lambert. We must believe these specimens to have been 
collected in the mountainous district, otherwise it would be im- 
possible to reconcile the idea of the same plant being found in 
so different a latitude. The tree is about the size of the orange- 
tree, to which it bears considerable resemblance in its habit and 
leaved. The flowers are white, disposed in small cymes in the 
axils of the leaves. They are tetrandrous, and are succeeded 
bv scarlet berries, like those of the common holly. The leaves, 
whether fresh or dried; are destitute of smell ; but, on a little 
warm water being poured upon them, they exhale an agreeable 
odour. Mr Lambert has been so fortunate as to obtain a living 
plant of this highly interesting tree, which is now growing in his 
collection at Boyton House, Wilts. — In New Holland the leaves 
of the Corroea alba , make very good tea. — The inhabitants of 
those barren and remote islands denominated the Kurile Isles, 
in the Sea of Kamtschatka, prepare a tea from an undescribed 
species of Pedicularis , named by Professor Pallas in his Herba- 
rium, now in Mr Lambert’s possession, Pedicularis lanata. — It 
is unnecessary to take notice of all the aromatic herbs of the or- 
der Labiates used as tea in different countries : my object has 
been to shew that teas are afforded by plants very remotely se- 
parated from each other in point of affinity. But while on the 
