Herbarium specimen: Camellia sinensis

Taxon:	Camellia sinensis ("Tea-plant")
Other name:	Tea-plant, Assam
Collected by:	William Bell
Collection date:	1868
Locality:	India, Uttar Pradesh, Saharanpur, see note
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.2005.27.1383
notes:	Specimens 2005.27.1382-1384 appear to be the samples of tea-plants exhibited by William Bell during his communication 'Notes on the varieties of Tea cultivated in India' at a meeting of the Botanical Society of Edinburgh on 8.4.1869 (see Trans. Bot. Soc. Edin. Vol. X pages 162-164); note William Bell was head gardener at Saharanpur, India 1862-1869; the specimens are probably from Saharanpur.

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