540 PENTANDRI/V MONOGYNIA. Coffed. 



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 Deports Travels hi 

 South America,*. 434. 1809-10. Two middling plants at 

 the age of six or seven years produced in the Botanic 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 is evidently distinct from C. arabica. It is found in- 

 digenous amongst the mountains of the north east frontier, 

 chiefly about Silhet, and from thence brought many years 

 aeo 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 innumerable, 

 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 taken 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 calyx crowned with an undetermined number of 

 minute points. Corol contorted ; divisions of the border ob- 

 lique, oval. Filaments none. Anthers long, linear, within 

 the tube, with their incurved apices just above its mouth. 



