Boit el Fakih March 16, 7 A.M. 76 deg. 1 P.M. 95 deg. " " 18, " 77 " 95 Hodeida " 18, " 72 " 92-3/4 Bulgosa, a village in the hills " 20, " 69-1/2 " 85-1/2 Boit el Fakih 10 P.M. 81 deg. " " 81 Hodeida " 78 Bulgosa, a village in the hills " 73 1225. Tea (_Thea Chinensis_). The plant is indigenous in China, Japan, and Upper Assam. In the latter country, it has recently been found in a wild state, and is in process there of extensive cultivation. As the plant is hardy, its culture has very lately been attempted in the South of France, and apparently with complete success. A similar experiment on the burning plains of Algeria completely failed, all the plants being killed by the heat, notwithstanding every precaution. Tea was first introduced into Europe by the Dutch in 1666. The leaves of the coffee-plant have long been used as a substitute for tea, by the lower classes in Java and Sumatra; and recently, Professor Blume, of Leyden, exhibited samples of tea prepared from coffee-leaves, agreeing entirely in appearance, odour, and taste, with the genuine Chinese production. 1226. Sugar-cane (_Saccharum officinaram_), a species of _Gramineæ_, occurs to some extent without the tropics, having been cultivated centuries ago in Europe, as at present scantily in the South of Spain. But it properly belongs to the torrid zone, and has for its principal districts, the Southern United States, the West Indies, Venezuela, Brazil, the Mauritius, British India, China, the Sunda and Philippine Islands. The plant was found wild in several parts of America on the discovery of that continent, and occurs in a wild state on many of the islands of the Pacific. 1227. Vanilla (_Vanilla aromatica_), the fruit of which forms the well-known aromatic, grows wild principally in Mexico. 1228. Peruvian bark (_Cinchona officinalis_), a forest tree, of which there are several species, furnishing the valuable medicine so called. It is exclusively confined to South America, and grows chiefly on the Andes of Loxa and Venezuela. 1229. Pepper (_Piper nigrum_) belongs exclusively to the Malabar coast, where it has been found wild, Sumatra, which produces the greatest quantity, Borneo, the Malay peninsula, and Siam. Other species of _Piperaceoe_ occur in tropical America. 1230. Cinnamon (_Laurus Cinnamomum_), a small tree yielding the aromatic bark, is found native only in the island of Ceylon; but another species occurs in Cochin China. [Verse: "I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman."--JOHN XV.]