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CORREA alba. 
White Correa, or Botany-Bay Tea-tree. 
a 
OCTANDRIA JIONOGYNIA. 
Nat. ord. DiosMER. Brown in append. to Flind. voy. 2. 545. 
CORREA, Supra vol. 1. fol. 3. 
C. alba, foliis ovato-rotundatis in petiolum attenuatis; floribus solitariis plu- 
nblere in cymam; corolla turbinato-reflexa: petalis discretis, margine 
inflexis. 
Correa alba. Andrews’s reposit. 18. Ventenat malm.13. Desfont. in ann. 
du mus. 2. 32. Willd. sp. pl. 2. 324. - Hort. Kew. ed. 2. 2. 349. 
Correa cotinifolia. Parad. lond. 100. ce 
(8) color intensids rubigineus; folia minora; flores solitarii v. gemini. 
Correa rufa. Labillardiére voy. @ la réch. de la Pérouse. 2. app. 120. 
Ventenat loc. cit. Persoon syn. 1. 419. a 
Mazeutoxeron rufum. Labillardiere loc. cit.2.11.t.17 
Frutex dumosus, erectus, pube compositd, rufescente; rami parum diver- 
gentes. Folia subuncialia, cortacea, patentia; juniora rubigineo-pubentia ; 
seniora prolapsis villis supra glanduloso-puncticulata comparentia, ob- 
scuré venosa, fusco-virentia; subtus tomentoso-candicantia, petioli 2-3-line- 
ares. Pedunculi petiolis breviores, nunc bi-trichotomi, 3-5-flori; pedicelli 
breves sepids juxta florem bibracteati. Cal. cupulatus, repando-dentatus, 
brevis. Cor. semunciam exsuperans, albida, exits tomentosa, intds gla- 
brata, rugosa, erubescens; pet. soluta, ligulato-oblonga, acuta, canaliculata. 
Stam. erecto-patentia, corollam equantia, alterné subbreviora: fil. & basi 
subclavaté sulcaté setacea: anth. incumbentes, ante anthesin sanguinee. 
Germ. hirsutum sulcis octonis impressum: stylus setaceus: stig. obsolete 4. 
Flores inodori, fundo nectarifero. 
The whole sbrub, except the bloom, has a dusky ap- 
pearance, and when drawn through the hand diffuses a 
refreshing fragrance, resembling that of the Myrtle in 
bloom. It belongs to New South Wales, where the leaves 
have been often used by the colonists as a substitute for 
Tea; and Mr. Brown tells us, that he has prepared it so as 
to have been drank by some of his European guests for 
good Chinese Tea. The art is to adapt the infusion so as to 
prevent too great a degree of bitter. In this country it 
varies much in the size of the leaf, which we have seen 
from half an inch to one and a half long, and more than one 
broad. We have sometimes perceived on these what 
appeared to us an oily secretion, seemingly exsuded from 
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