Dissertatio inauguralis botanico-medica de thea, quam, favente summo numine, ex autoritate rectoris magnifici, Jani Richardi de Brueys, ... in Academia Rheno-Trajectina / publico et solemni examine submittit Cornelius Adrianus Bergsma die XVII maii MDCCCXXV.
- Bergsma, Cornelius Adrianus.
- Date:
- [1825]
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Credit: Dissertatio inauguralis botanico-medica de thea, quam, favente summo numine, ex autoritate rectoris magnifici, Jani Richardi de Brueys, ... in Academia Rheno-Trajectina / publico et solemni examine submittit Cornelius Adrianus Bergsma die XVII maii MDCCCXXV. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![irliofis loriiiimtuv; hic autera prinium dugs f^iecifis dercripfit, Jp^iupe'~ Theaisi Boh^^.j^jc et vhiiqetvi. piv^erfas afiten\ fpecies reveraadpsfe tantum.prQbta? bile fb,tviit .^t forte pQtius ad hoc incliuavit, quandoquidem etig^m iloj^e^ i^i. altepe fpecirnine hexar petalos, in altero vero enne^-peialos obrervavit., Uti hoc a L i n n a e o indicatuna erc^t, ahia aiiteuTiha^ confirmandum reliquif. (i) D.octisfimum pill.aviT teii] ejusdera fpeciei judicent, qui. pp^funt viyam infpicere/* tJnaetiam tantumfpecies raemoratur inejtisdein Systejimtf. ^atiirae, Holraiae 1759. Tom. II. pag. 1076. (i) John Hill Exotic Batany. London, 1752. uc quisque melius judicet denuctoritateDocc. Hill in deter- xninatione duarum fpecierura, liic afFeram, quod hac de cau. fa m ejus opere legitur. Djcit, Tab. 21. BoH£A Ty,EA/ „ we have long qnestionM vyhether the Green and Bo- hea Tea were, or vyere not the Produce of tlie fame Shrub: most thought they werej their DiiFerence being attribuced only to the Scate of Growch wlierein -ths l^eaves were gacher'd; and the various Method of cu- rjng them, I thiuk it is otherwife Certainly I have re^ ceived among my China Plants, two fpecimens unter the Narae of Tea, which differ obviousiy fn Leaf and Flower. Thac which I figure here, has fhorter and darker Leaves, and in each Flower fix pe- tals thfs, from the Colour of the Leaf I fancy W> be the Bohea. The ocher- has longer and paler Leaves, and every Flower nine Petals; ihat F fiip- pofe tp be. the Green. Whether this be theCafe, must be found by raore Experience: and if they really be the Produce of.two distinct Shrubs, we are yet to befide ■ qf the Difference of Form and Colour of the Leaf, fesmM, in the Courfe of thefe Experiments, to fhe\v te tfa^y. were really the tWQ-Kinds Lhave conjectu-](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21041453_0026.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
