-eFFRr HORTUS JAM AI C-E'NS I , . ^]%, 



icut into small pieces, the heads of this, as v\xll as, of the other kincTs," which are all of- 

 _aa ustnngent, nature, arc a^ouu tood t\>v pouliry. '1 he seeds are good to feed chickens^ 



2. PERTviRINUM. 



ji:atile maximuni, Joliis cord.ito tagtttatis, radkelenitermordecante, 

 Browne, p. 333i . 

 Leaves cordate-obtuse, mucronate ; angles rovinded. 



This seerns only a variety of tire white coco, the pedicels- heing lightly tinged with 

 ^^rtrple, the etnbrios in the spadij;: grow at its base, above which arc a great mmiHer of 

 . iJiirpie glands, and the upper pait entirely taken up by the anthers, which are disposed 

 ^n bundles of about twelve together, and the thiii white filaments to which they adhere 

 co\er tiieii upper or exterior end. Tiie spadis is free all its length. 



Browne calls this the 5c7'tf/tA coco, fro ni the pangencj- with which its roots are ini-i 

 ;pregD;lted. * 



See Dumb Canb- Jive-Finger lNpuiy'iv\^E:-^WAK|; Robins^ 



COFFEEr COFFEA. 



"Ci.. 3, eR. 1. Pentandriamsnogynia. Nat. oR. Stellafa;, 



'This was so named from the Kingdom of Caffa, in Africa, -where it^ grows abimdantly, 



'.Gen. CHAR. The perianth is minutely five-toothed, very small, superior: the co- 

 rolla is OHe-peta!ed, salver-shaped; tube cyhndric (sweUing a httle towards the 



top), slender, many times longer tlian the calyx ; border hat, five-parted, longer 

 than the tube-, divisions lance-shaped, their sides rolled back : The staBien's are 

 five filaments, subulate, placed on the tube, at the divisions of the petals; an- 



thers linear-lanceolate, incumbent, length of the filaments : the pistil has a round- 

 ish inferior germ ; style simple, length of the .corolla ; stigmas two, reflected, 

 subulate, thickish : tlie pericarp is a roundish berry ; seeds two (sonielimesj only 

 one), solitary, elliptical ly hemispherical, gibbous on one side, flat on- the other, 



. where it is furrowed longitudivialiy, involved in an aril. One species of this genus 

 (4s a native of Jamaica,- the occidentalis ; the Ava^ica, or coffee tree, is an exotic, 



l.ARABICA, ARABI.1N. 



Fndicosafoliis oposilis, floribus plurirnis sessililtus ad alas. Browne, 

 p. 161. 



Flowers five- cleft ; berries two-seeded. 



'This valuable plant seldom rises, if left to itself, above seventeen or eighteen feet, 

 hwt in a state of cultivation is not allowed to grow above five or six feet in height. 

 The main stem grows upright, and is covered with a light brown bark. The branches 

 are produced horizontally and opposite, crossing each other at every 'joint, so that 

 every part of the tree is garnished with them ; they are brachiate, smooth, lax, and ia 

 old trees bend downward, the lower ones are the longest, gradually decreasing tpwards 

 the top, which gives the tree a most beautiful pyramidal figure when about two or threli 

 years old ; after that age, however, in a state of cultivation, the tops are generallv cut 

 ti' at the height of five or six feet, when ihe-upper branches by that means acquire 



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