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Herbarium specimen: Camellia sinensis

Taxon:Camellia sinensis ("Tea-plant")
Other name:Thea assamensis
Collected by:William ? Bell (see note )
Locality:India, Uttar Pradesh, Dehra Dun, govt. tea plantation
donated by:Prof John Hutton Balfour (Donation to Perth Literary and Antiquarian Society, apparently arranged by William Carmichael MacIntosh ) 1880
Institution:Perth Museum and Art Gallery (PTH)
Accession number:PTH.2005.27.1385
notes:specimen is from region containing Saharanpur where William Bell
was head gardener, see 2005.27.1382-1384; location given as
'grown in Govt. Tea plantation Deyrah Dhoon, N.W.P. India';
stuck-on label, watermark '1843'

Inferred details are marked.

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