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COFFEA ARABICA. CoFFEE-Tr£E. 



Clafs and Order. 

 Pentandria Monogynia. 

 Generic Character. 

 Cor. hypocrateriformis. Stam. fupra tubum. Bacca infera 

 difperma. Sem. arillata. 



Specific Characler and Synonyms. 

 COFFEA arabica; foliis oblongo-ovatis acuminatis, pedun- 



culis axillaribus aggregatis, corollis quinquefidis. 



Wiild.Sp. PL i.p.973. 

 COFFEA arabica ; floribus quinquefidis, baccis difpermis. 



Sp. Pi. 245. Aman. Acad. v. 6. p. 160. Gart. Sem. 



\*p. 118. /. 25. Hort. Kezv. 1. p. 229. Kniph. Cent. 



\\. n. 32. Regn. Bot. 

 COFFEA Hort. Cliff. 59. Blackzv. t. 37. Pienck Ic. t. 130. 



Ellis Monogr. Douglas Monogr. Mofcley Monogr. 



SitanderAtl.Slockh. 17 57. p. 236*. Lamarck II. 1. 16*0. 

 JASMINUM arabicum lauri folio, cujus femen apud nos 



CofTe dicitur. Jujfieu Act. Paris 1713. p. 291. /. 7. 

 JASMINUM arabicum, caiianeae folio, flore albo odoratiflimo. 



Till. Pi/. 87. /. 32. 

 EUONYMO fimilis ^Egyptiaca, fru&u baccis lauri fimili. Bauh. 



Pin. 498. 

 BON. A/ fin. JEgypt. ed. 1. p. 26. t. 27. ed. 2. />. 63. t. 65. 



<?</. 3. />. 36. /. 16. 

 £ON. **/ BAN arbor. Bauh. Hijl. 1. p. 422. Pink. Aim. 6g. 



Phyt. t. 272./. l. Park. Theat. 1622. 



The Coffee-tree is fully defcribed by Ellis and feveral other 

 writers; and Gartner has given an elaborate defcription of 

 the fruit. Some points however are better explained by the 

 fecond figure from the left hand in our plate, which reprefents 

 a tranfverfe feclion of the ieed t feparated from its arillus. This 

 jhews the manner in which the feed is, as it were, rolled up, as 

 j* it had been originally comprefled and orbicular ; for that it 

 is not the albumen atone, which is i'o convoluted, is proved by 

 l &i«, that the arillus can be vifibly traced through all the con- 

 volutions. It is on account of this ilru&ure, that, when a per- 

 pendicular fe&ion of the feed is made, a portion of it falls out 

 a nd leaves a cavity, as is reprelented both in Gartner's and 

 our figures. The embryo does not lie expofed in this cavity, 

 as might be conceived by the figures, but is imbedded in the 

 °uter or dorfal convolution and brought into view by difleft- 

 ln g away part of the albumen. 



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