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COFFEA ARABICA. : COFFEE TREE. 
SYNONYMA. Euonymo fimilis zgyptiaca, frudu baccis lauri 
fimili. Baub. Pin. 498. Coffee frutex, ex cujus frudtu fit potus. 
, Ray. Hif. 1691. Bon. Alpin, Pl. “i gypt. 63. Jaf{minum arabi- 
.cum, lauri folio, cujus femen apud nos Coffé dicitur. Fuffieux. Mem, 
| de L’ Acad, des Sc. de Paris. 1713. p. 388. 4,7. Conf. Monogr. 
in Linn, Amoen, Ac. T. 6. p. 160. Alfo Ellis. Hiftor. Account of 
Coffee. 1774. a ee 
Correa, (femen) Pharm. Dale. 317. Alfton. ii. 274. Murray. i. 
— 386. Bergius. 111, Lewis. 243. Edinb, New Difpenf. 174. 
Pentandria Monogynia. Lin. Gen. Plant. 2306 
Gen. Ch. Cor. hypocrateriformis. Stamina fupra tubum., | Bacca 
infera difperma. Sem. arillata. 3 
Sp. Ch. C, floribus quinquefidis difpermis. 
A TREE of low ftature, feldom exceeding twelve feet in height, 
flender, at the upper part fending off long trailing branches: bark 
brown, and almoft {mooth. Leaves nearly elliptical, {mooth, entire, 
pointed, waved, three or four inches in length, oppofite, on fhort 
footftalks. Stipule in pairs, pointed. Flowers white, axillary, on 
fhort fimple peduncles, or feffile, two or three together. Calyx bee 
fmall, tubular, five-toothed. Corolla monopetalous, funnel-fhaped, 
cut at the limb into five reflexed oval or lanceolate fegments : tube 
long, narrow, almoft cylindrical. Filaments five, tapering, inferted 
at the mouth of the tube: antherz linear, incumbent, of the lenge 
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