Coffea. PENTANDRTA MONOGYNIA. 539 



Branchlets 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 subulate. Peduncles 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 ovnlum 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 convex 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 

 the perisperm, with the two reniform cotyledons pointing up 

 and in, the oblong radicle out and down. 



2. C. arabica. Willd. spec. i. 973. 



Leaves oblong, ovate, acuminate. Flowers axillary, crowd- 

 ed. Stamina without the tube of the quinquifid corol. 



Coffee. FothergilVs Works, ii. p. 279. t. 3. 



A native of Arabia, and now common in both Indies. In 

 Bengal it blossoms in March, and the berries ripen in Decem- 

 ber. 



In the West Indies Coffee plants are said to produce on an 

 averao-e from six to sixteen ounces of clear coftee annually. 

 FothergilVs Works, ii. p. 323. At St. Domingo they calcu- 

 late on one pound per plant. At Jamaica one pound and a 



