Coffea, PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIAS 539 
Branchleis opposite, round, smooth, and slender, Leaves 
opposite, short-petioled, broad-lanceolar, entire, acuminate, 
smooth, and glossy on both sides; from four to five inches 
long, and scarcely two broad, ‘Stipules generally bifid, Seg- 
ments sitbulate. Peduncies terminal and axillary, several to- 
gether, long, slender, straight, one-flowered. Calyx four or 
five-toothed. Tube of the corol long, slender, somewhat cla- 
vate, smooth; segments of the border four or five, length of 
the tube, ensiform, spreading. Filaments scarcely any. An- 
thers four or five, linear, inserted within the tube, their api- 
ces even with its mouth. Germ inferior, turbinate, two-cell- 
ed, with one ovudum in each cell, attached to the middle of. 
the partition. Style two-cleft. Stigmas simple. Berry in- ° 
ferior, round, size of a small cherry, smooth, when ripe black- 
ish purple, and with but a small portion of pulp, one or two~ 
celled ; generally one-celled, the other cell being abortive, 
and then the berry has an oblique direction. Seeds solitary, 
when the berry is two-celled nearly round ; when one-celled, 
flat on one side and conyex on the other, in which case there 
is a deep round cavity on the flat side. Perisperm conform 
to the seed, horny. Embryo erect, very small, and lodged 
in an » oblique. direction in the middle of the convex side of 
( rm, With the two reniform cotyledons pomiing uP 
and in, the obleng radicle out and down, tcnmbverd: 
- 2. C. arabica. Willd. spec. i, 973. 
Leaves oblong, ovate, acuminate. Flowers axillary, crowd- 
ed. Stamina without the tube of the quinquifid Sanh 
Coffee. Fothergill’s Works, ii. p. 279. t. 3. : 
A native of Arabia, and now common in both leihie i 
Bengal it — in iia en erTi¢ — 
ber. 
Tn the West Indies Coffee plies are said to produce on an 
average from six to sixteen ounces of clear coffee annually, 
Fothergill’s Works, ii. p. 323. At St. Domingo they caleu- 
late on one pound per plant, At Jamaica one pound and a 
