TEA TREE. 
POLYANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
GENERIC CHARACTER. 
Calyx small, divided into five or six parts ; leaflets round 
and obtuse. 
Corolla of six roundish concave petals. 
Seed-vessel consisting of three globes united together, each 
containing a single seed. 
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SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 
Thea Bohea. Floribus hexapetalis. Linn. Spec. Plant. IV Hid, 
2 . p. 11 80. no. 1 . Flowers w i th six petals . 
Thee. Kampfer. Jap. 605. t. 606. 
Thf.e Frutex. Parr. Rar. 128. pi. 904. 
Thee Sinensium. Bregn. Cent. 111. t. 112. 
f. 17. t. 3. 
Bohea Tea. Lettsom. Sect. 8. p. 39. pi. 2. 
Theaviridis. T. floribus enneapetalis. Linn. 
Spec. Plant. 2. p. 1180. no. 2. Flowers with 
nine petals. 
Thea Cantoniensis. Lour. Cochin. 414. 
Thea Sinensis. Black, pi. 351. Jy. 
Tea. . . . Lettsom, Nat. Hist, of the Tea Tree. 
In the Nouveau Dictionnaire d’Histoire Naturelle f 
the writer, M. du Tour, has begun the above article 
