is cultivated m the West Indies and Brazil, and forms a 

 valuable property to the natives. There is another kind of 

 kola-mi it, known as the bitter kola, whose botanical history 

 is wholly unknown. The kola has been introduced into 

 the Koyal Gardens, Kew, repeatedly, from both West Africa 

 and the West Indies, but never flowered till January of the 

 pi esen t year. 



aooleTo/ S A ma " tT Z' ab ° Ut folty feet h 'S h ' resembling an 

 apple-tree. Leaves alternate, on petioles half an inch to six 



inches long; blade four to six inches long, oblons-obovate or 



obovate-lan ceolate, long-acnminate, coriaceous, n!," es strong 



sht^fnffT ° n , b0 ^ 5UrfaCeS - ft««»SS 

 shoit, mam-flowered axillary, corymbose racemes, about one 



inch across yellow m the garden specimens, described as 



treaked with purple in Africa. Perianth sen fy-tome„tose 



tube short, campanulate ; limb of five to six obZe sub' 



acute, spreading lobes. Anthers about ten, whorlcd round 



the apex of a very short column; cells superimposed ve ti 



an?he"l //*' ""^ at the bas * by imperfect 



magnified. ^pertect anthers at base of ditto :-„« i ut Mg. 1 



