same as this, and like it produces an abundance of fine pale 
yellow oil, which is used in China for various economical 
~purposes. Judging, however, from Loureiro’s description, 
the two plants can scarcely be identified, notwithstanding 
the resemblance in the Cochinchinese name, Ché-deau, 
ascribed to his plant by that author, and the Chinese name 
Tcha-Yeoa, mentioned by our friend Dr. Abel, who thus 
speaks of the C. oleifera which he found in the southern 
provinces of the Chinese empire. 
<< We sometimes found it of the magnitude of a moderate- 
sized cherry-tree, and always that of a large shrub, from 
six to eight feet in height, and bearing a profusion of large 
single white blossoms. This circumstance gave an inter- 
esting and novel character to the places which it covered. 
They often looked in the distance as if lightly clothed with 
snow ; but ona nearer view exhibited one immense garden. 
The Camellia oleifera seems to flourish best in a red sandy 
soil, on which few other plants will grow. The Chinese 
cultivate it in large plantations, and procure from its seed 
a pure esculent oil, by a very easy process.” 
A tall shrub, or middle-sized tree, with many branches. 
Branches round, brown, with a very slight down. Leaves 
coriaceous, smooth, flat, elliptical, acute at each end, 
towards the end acutely serrated, beneath of a paler colour, 
with scarcely any veins, but a few minute dots. Flowers 
axillary or terminal, solitary, sessile, white, the size of those 
of Camellia Sasanqua. Calyx imbricated, many-leaved, 
silky; the lower leaflets deciduous, the two upper larger 
petaloid and persistent. Petals 5-6, two-lobed, cuneate, 
flat, spreading. ea, 
