The common names bohea and green Teas.[8] There is only one species of this plant; the difference of green and bohea Tea depending upon the nature of the soil, the culture, and manner of drying the leaves. It has even been observed, that a green Tea-tree, planted in the bohea country, will produce bohea Tea, and so the contrary.[9] SECTION II. SYNONYMA. Many authors have at different times treated upon this subject; some who never saw the Tea-tree, as well as others who have seen it[10]. I shall enumerate those who are mentioned in the Species plantarum of Linnæus[11]. Thea; Hortus Cliffort. 204. Mat. Med. 264. Hill. Exot. t. 22. Thee; Kæmpfer. Japan. 605. t. 606. Thee frutex; Barthol. Act. 4. p. 1. t. 1. Bont. Jav. Amstel. fol. 87 ad 88. Thee Sinensium; Breyn. Cent. 111. t. 112. incon. 17. t. 3. Bocc. Mus. 114. t. 94. Chaa; Casp. Bauhin. Pinax Theatri Botanici. Basil. 1623. 4to. p. 147. _Evonymo_ affinis arbor orientalis nucifera, flore roseo; Pluk. Alm. Botan. Stirp. nov. tradens. 1200. Lond. 1705. fol. 139. t. 88. fig. 6. In the Acta Haffniensia, we meet with the first figure of this tree; but, as it was taken from a dried specimen, it does not illustrate the subject very well. Bontius published another, and though drawn in India, where he might have seen the plant, it does not much surpass the preceding. The figure given by Plukenet is better than either of the former; and after his, Breynius published one still better: but of all the engravings formerly executed, that given by Kæmpfer must be allowed to be the most accurate[12]; yet even this icon, like all the others published by this industrious naturalist, is extremely imperfect; although he certainly saw the living plants which he has represented, however expert the Chinese may be in deception[13]. SECTION III. AUTHORS UPON TEA. Besides the Authors already mentioned, several others have given some account of this exotic ever-green, the principal of which are added for the farther information of those who may be desirous of consulting these writers on the subject. Johann. Petr. Maffeus Rerum Indicarum libro VI. pag. 108. & lib. XII. pag. 242. Ludov. Almeyd. in eodem opere lib. IV. select. epist. Petr. Jarric. tom. III. lib. II. cap. XVII. Matth. Ric. de Christian. exped. apud Sinas, lib. I. cap. VII. L. Baptista Ramusio, le Navigationi e viaggi nelli quali si Contienne la Descrittione dell’ Africa, del paese del prete Joanni del mar Rosso, Calicut, isole Moluchese la Navigazione interno il mondo. Venet. 1550. 1563. 1588. 3 Vol. Fol. Vol. III. p. 15. Translation in English of Giovanni Botaro,[14] an eminent Italian author. Printed in 1590. Texeira, Relaciones del origen de los Reyes de Persia y de Hormuz. Amberes, 1610. p. 19. Fischer’s Sibirische Geschichte, 1639. Vol. II. p. 694. Alois Frois, in Relat. Japonicâ. Nicol. Trigaut. de Regno Chinæ, Cap. III. p. 34.