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outer a little smaller: stamens as far as two hundred and 
eighty. In Thea Japonica, the calyx is five-leaved, with 
ovate obtuse concave leaflets: the corolla six-petalled; petals 
ovate, very blunt, three lower ones smaller. Germ somewhat 
scaly: style filiform, erect, very short: stigmas three, fili¬ 
form, erect, length of the filaments.— Essential Character. 
Corolla six or nine-petalled. Calyx five or six-leaved. 
Capsule tricoccous. 
1. Thea.—The tea tree is commonly about the height of a 
man. It is described indeed by different authors as varying 
much in size from that just mentioned to thirty and even two 
hundred feet. Probably it may attain the height of thirty 
feet or more when left to itself; but in general the trees are 
cut down periodically, that they may make stronger shoots, 
and therefore are seldom seen to be above five or six feet high. 
The trunk is branching and round : the branches alternate 
or vague, stiffish, inclining to an ash-colour, but reddish to¬ 
wards the end. Leaves alternate, elliptic, smooth, glossy, of 
a firm texture, bluntly serrate except near the base, blunt and 
for the most part slightly emarginate at the end, veined on 
the under side; on very short petioles, round and gibbous 
beneath, flatfish and slightly channelled above. Stipules to 
the leaves none. Peduncles axillary, alternate, single, curved, 
one-flowered, incrassate, having at the base a single stipule or 
bracte, which is awl-ahaped, erect, elliptic, obtusely serrate, 
with the edges between the teeth recurved. Corolla white, 
varying in the number and size of the petals. Stamens, ac¬ 
cording to Loureiro, inserted rather into the base of the 
corolla than into the receptacle. There are two varieties: 
Thea viridis, and Thea bohea. 
The distinctions chiefly regarded in Europe are the follow¬ 
ing :— 
Green Teas. —1. Bing, imperial or bloom tea, with a 
large loose leaf, of a light green colour, and a faint delicate 
smell. 
2. Hy-tiann, hikiong, hayssuen or heechun, known to 
us by the name of hyson tea : the leaves are closely curled 
and small, of a green colour verging towards blue. Another 
hyson tea, with narrow short leaves, is called hyson-utchin. 
There is also a green tea named globe, with long narrow 
leaves. 
3. Song-lo or singlo, which name it receives, like several 
others, from the place where it is cultivated. 
Bohea Teas. —1. Soo-chuen, sut-chong, sou-chong, or 
su-chong, called by the Chinese saa-tyang, and fact-chaon 
or sy-tyann, is a superior kind of cong-fou tea. It imparts a 
yellowish-green colour by infusion, and has its name from a 
place or province in China. Padre sutchong has a finer taste 
and smell; the leaves are large and yellowish, not rolled up, 
and packed in papers of half a pound each. It is generally 
conveyed by caravans into Russia: without much care it will 
be injured at sea. It is rarely to be met with in England. 
2. Cam-ho, or soum-lo, called after the name of the place 
where it is gathered: a fragrant tea with a violet smell; its 
infusion is pale. 
3. Cong-fou, congo, or bong-fo : this has a larger leaf 
than the following, and the infusion is a little deeper 
coloured. It resembles the common bohea in the colour of 
the leaf. 
There is also a sort called lin-kisam, with narrow rough 
leaves. It is seldom used alone, but mixed with other kinds. 
By adding it to congo, the Chinese sometimes make a kind 
of Pekoe tea. 
4. Pekao, pecko, or pekoe, by the Chinese called back- 
ho, or pack-ho: it is known by having the appearance of 
small white flowers intermixed with it. 
5. Common bohea, or black tea, called moji or mo-ee by 
the Chinese, consists of leaves of one colour. The best is 
named Tao-kyon. An inferior kind is called An-kai, from 
a place of that name. In the district of Honam, near Can¬ 
ton, the tea is very coarse, the leaves yellow or brownish, 
and the taste the least agreeable of any. By the Chinese it is 
named honam-te, or kuli-te. 
But besides these, tea, both bohea and green, is sometimes 
imported in balls, from two ounces to the size of a nutmeg 
and of peas. The Chinese call it poncul-tcha. The small- 
est in this form is well known under the name of gunpowder 
tea. 
And sometimes the succulent leaves are twisted like pack¬ 
thread, an inch and a half, or two inches long; three of 
these are usually tied together at the ends by different co¬ 
loured silk threads. Both green and bohea teas are prepared 
in this manner. 
THEAKIKT, the east head-quarter of Illinois river, which 
has its rise in Canada. 
THEAKSTON, a hamlet of England, North Riding of 
Yorkshire; 3 miles south-east-by-east of Bedale. 
THEALBY, a hamlet of England, in Lincolnshire; 10£ 
miles west-by-south of Barton-upou-Humber. 
THEALE, a township of England, in Berkshire; 4 miles 
west-by-south of Reading. 
THEANTHROPOS, [Oeavdoc,^, Gr.] thus formed from 
@eo<;, God, and mail, and was sometimes used in 
the schools to signify Jesus Christ, who was regarded as 
God-man. 
THEARNE, a hamlet of England, East Riding of York¬ 
shire ; 3 j miles south-east-by-east of Beverley. 
THE'ATIN, s. [French.] One of an order of priests 
among the catholics, so called from a superior of their order, 
who was archbishop of Chieti in Naples, anciently Theate. 
—The Theatins [were] a sect of priests in credit about pope 
Clement the seventh’s time, and of more antiquity by some 
few years than the Jesuits. Cotgrave. 
THE'ATINE, s. One of an order of nuns conforming 
to the rules of the Theatins. 
THE'ATRAL, ad), \theatralis, Lat.] Belonging to a 
theatre.—In theatral actions he personates Herod in his 
majesty. Comment, on Chaucer. 
THE'ATRE, s. \thcatrum, Lat.] A place in which 
shews are exhibited; a playhouse. 
This wise and universal theatre , 
Presents more woful pageants than the scene 
Wherein we play. Shakspeare. 
A place rising by steps or gradations like a theatre. 
Shade above shade, a woody theatre 
Of stateliest view. Milton. 
THE'ATRIC, or The'a tricar, adj. [t heat rum, Lat.] 
Scenic ; suiting a theatre; pertaining to a theatre. 
Load some vain church with old theatric state. 
Turn arcs of triumph to a garden gate. Pope. 
THEATRICALLY, adv. In a manner suiting the stage. 
Dauntless her look, her gesture proud, 
Her voice theatrically loud. Pope. 
THEAVE, s. An ewe or sheep of three years old. North. 
Bailey says, of one year. Pegge. 
THEBAID, the early name of Upper Egypt, for which 
that of Sahid or Said has long been substituted. 
THEBEN, or Deven, a small town in the west of Hun¬ 
gary, at the confluence of the great rivers March and Danube; 
6 miles above Presburg. 
THEBERTON, a parish of England, in Suffolk; 4 miles 
east-south-east of Saxmundham. Population 440. 
THEBES, Ruins of, the remains of a great city, which 
at an early period was the capital of Egypt. There are not 
lobe found in the world any monuments more remarkable, 
both by their stupendous magnitude, and by the high anti¬ 
quity to which they ascend. The glory of Thebes belongs 
to a period prior to the commencement of authentic history. 
It is recorded only by the dim lights of poetry and tradition, 
which might be suspected of fable, did not such mighty wit¬ 
nesses remain to their truth. History has preserved no dis¬ 
tinct record of those powerful and conquering sovereigns, 
who held their capital in Upper Egypt. See Egypt. 
THEDDINGWORTH, a parish of England, in Leices¬ 
tershire; 44 miles west-by-south of Market Ilarborough. 
THED1NG-HAUSEN, a small town in the north of Ger¬ 
many, in the duchy of Brunswick, and the chief place of a 
district 
