in botany (see Encycl.), is a plant which the Chinese call Cha-wuba, or flower of tea, on account of the resemblance of the one to the other, and because its petals are sometimes mixed among the tea to increase their fragrance. Sir George Staunton, who calls it Camellia Sasanqua, saw it flourishing on the sides and very high tops of mountains, where the soil consisted of little more than fragments of stone, crumbled into a sort of coarse earth by the joint action of the sun and rain. It yields, he says, a nut, from which is expressed an effluvial oil, equal to the best which comes from Florence. On this account, it is cultivated in vast abundance; and is particularly valuable from the facility of its culture in situations fit for little else.