540 PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA, Coffea. 
half, and at Terra-Firma two pounds, where the plants stand 
in quincunx, at from four to eight feet according to the rich-. 
ness of the soil. English Translation of Depon’s Travels in 
South America, i, 434, 1809-10. Two middling plants at 
the age of six or seven years produced in the Botanie garden 
in one year or crop, seven pounds of the dry berries which 
gave three pounds of clean coffee, equal to the Jamaica pro- 
duce, 
3. C. bengalensis. R. 
Shrubby. Leaves opposite, oblong. Flowers axillary, 
Segments of the corol oblong. Filaments none, Anthers 
long and within the tube. : 
This i is evidently distinct from C, arabica, It is found in- 
digenous amongst the mountains of the north-east frontier, 
_- chiefly about Silhet, and trom thence brought many years, 
ago to Calcutta where it was for some time much cultivated 
under the idea of its being the real coffee of Arabia. It is’ 
now neglected, being of an inferior quality, and not produc- 
tive; however the number and beauty of its flowers entitle 
it to a conspicuous place in the flower garden, Flowering: 
time the beginning of the hot season. 
. Root ramous. Trunk short, and clothed with rachel 
horizontal, opposite. branches, and branchlets, to the surface. 
of the earth, forming in our gardens, a pyramidical bush of 
from four to six feet in height. Leaves opposite, sub-sessile, 
from ovate to oblong ; smooth on both sides, obtuse, pointed 
as in C, arabica (both are now. before me just.t: aken from the 
plants,) here are also pores in the axills of the nerves on the 
under side, Stipules within, subulate. Flowers in the axills 
of the leaves, and of the young shoots, sub-sessile, pure white; 
generally from one to three, though sometimes more. Mar- 
gin of the ealyx crowned with an undetermined number of — 
minute sige Corol contorted ; divisions of the border. pb-, 
