But Kæmpfer, who is chiefly to be depended upon, confines the full growth to about a man’s heighth. Amœn. Exot. Lemgov. 1712, 4to. pag. 605. Probably this may be a just medium; for Osbeck says, that he saw Tea-shrubs in flower-pots, not above an ell high. Voyage to China, Vol. I. p. 247. See also Eckeberg’s account of the Chinese husbandry, Vol. II. p. 303. [5] When the peduncles increase in thickness towards their extremities. [6] No author has hitherto remarked this obvious circumstance; even Kæmpfer himself says, that the leaves terminate in a sharp point. Amœn. Exot. p. 611. [7] When the upper surface of the leaf rises in several places in roundish swellings, hollow underneath. [8] Whether the word TEA is borrowed from the Japanese _Tsjaa_, or the Chinese _Theh_, is not of much importance. By this name, with very little difference in pronunciation, the plant here treated of is well known in most parts of the world. [9] I have examined several hundred flowers, both from the bohea and green Tea countries, and their botanical characters have always appeared uniform. See Directions for bringing over seeds and plants from distant countries, by John Ellis, Esq. Sir George Staunton’s Embassy, Vol. II. p. 464, says, “Every information received concerning the Tea plant concurred in affirming that its qualities depended upon the soil in which it grew, and the age at which the leaves were plucked off the tree, as well as upon the management of them afterwards.” [10] See Jac. Breynii Exotic. Cent. I. p. 114, 115. [11] Vol. I. p. 734. [12] Amœnit. Exotic. p. 618, et seq. See also his history of Japan by Scheuchzer. Lond. 2 Vol. Fol. App. p. 3. Geoffr. Mat. Med. Vol. II. p. 276. Other figures of this shrub are represented in Piso Itinere Brasilico, Kircher’s China Illustrata, and Dutch Embassy.