THEA

(Lat.), n. f. The(the2)'a3. Fr., the. Ger., Theestrauch (2d def.). 1. See TEA. 2. The tea-tree (or -shrub); a genus of the Ternstrcemiacece, included by Bentham and Hooker in the genus Camellia. The Theacece (of De Candolle, an order of plants including T., Ternstrcemia, and Gordon i a) are included by Bentham and Hooker in the tribe Gordoniece. [a, 35.] 3. The dried leaves of T. virid is [Austr. Ph., 1st ed., Hung. Ph.], of T. chinensis [Fr. Cod., Sp. Ph.). [B, 95 (a, 38).] Flos these. Ger., Blumenthee, Kaisertliee. The choicest variety of green tea. [a, 35.] T. a a mens is, T. a auiica. A am tea-tree, a form of Camellia t., considered the parent species of all the cultivated varieties of the tea-plant, [a, 35.] T. chinensis. See CAMELLIA t.T. helvetica. See SPECIES vuln era rice. T. hung a rica, T. inexicaua. See CHE NO PODIUM ambrosioides.T. nigra. Black tea. [a, 35.] T. roman a, T. silesiaca. See CHE NO PODIUM ambrosioides. T. sinensis. See CAMELLIA t. T. virid is. 1. A form of Camellia t. [a, 35.] 2. See Green TEA. [s. 614]