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province of Eokien, where it is chiefly made, is the very first 
but gathered in the beginning of March, and dried in the 
shade. The Bing * * * § tea is the second growth in April, and 
Sing lo f the last, in May and June, both dried a little in 
pans over the fire. The Teashrub being an evergreen is in 
flower from October to January and the seed is ripe in 
September and October following, so that one may gather both 
flowers and seed at the same time, but for one fresh and full 
seed there are a hundred nought. These make up the two 
sorts of f ruit in Le Comte’s description of tea: as for his other 
sort, which he calls flymic pease, they were nothing but the 
young buds of the flowers not yet opened. Its seed vessels are 
really 3 capsular, each capsule containing one nut or seed, and, 
although two or one capsule only come to perfection, yet the 
vestiges of the rest may be discerned. It grows in a dry gravelly 
soil, on the sides of hills, in several places of the island without 
any cultivation. 
Le Comte is mistaken in saying: (p. 96) that the Chinese are 
wholly strangers to the art of grafting, for I have seen a great 
many of his paradoxical Tallow trees ingrafted here, besides 
some other trees. When they ingraft, they do not slit the 
stock as we do, but cut a small slice off the outside of the 
stock, to which they apply the graft, bringing up the bark 
of the slice upon the outside of the graft, they tye all together 
covering with straw and mud as we do. 
Martini says he could never find a Latin name for the Fula 
Mogorin of the Portuguese (v. supra Martini i9). I am sure it 
is the same with the Syringa arabica flore pleno albo in 
Parkinsone. J 
He says also, that the Kieu yen or Tallow tree bears a white 
flower like a Cherry tree, but all that I have seen here bears 
a spike of small yellow flowers like the julus of a Salix. jj 
The Bean or Mandarin Broth, so frequently mentioned in 
the Dutch Embassy and by other authors is only an emulsion 
made of the seed of Sesamum and hot water.§ 
* Ming, in Amoy beng> 
t fe IS Sung lo, name of a mountain, see above Martini 23. 
t Cunningham is right. Lamarck Enc. bot. IV 210 quotes the Syringa 
arabica (already known to Clusius) as a synonym of Jasminum Sambac. Ait. 
II Cunningham’s statement is correct. See above Martini 36. note. 
§ In the narrative of the third Dutch Embassy a Bean soup is 
mentioned which they believed to be prepared with milk and Peking 
butter (sic!). But it seems to me that the above statements of Cunning¬ 
ham and the Dutch are to be referred to the Chinese condiment commonly 
called Bean curd by Europeans. (Williams’ Middle Kingdom, II, 43.) 
