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Catha

1911 Encyclopedia Britannica

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the khat of the Arabs, a shrub widely distributed and much cultivated in Arabia and tropical Africa from Abyssinia to the Cape. The dried leaves are used for the preparation of a kind of tea and also as tobacco. The plant is a member of the natural order Celastraceae, a family of shrubs and trees found in temperate and tropical climates and represented in Britain by the spindle-tree (Euonymus europaeus).

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Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Catha'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/​encyclopedias/​eng/​bri/​c/catha.html. 1910.
 
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