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PSYCHOTROPHUM 5. Birfutum filiis evatis. 



The hairy Pfychotrophum. 



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PSYCHOTROPHUM 



6. Fruticofum foliis plumb eis ovato 



rib us I axe racemofis. 



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The fhruby Pfychotrophum with a livid foliage* 



PSYCHOTROPHUM 



Herbaceum repem filvaticum foliis Jubrotundo-cor- 

 datis oppojitis, jioribus paucioribus alaribus, fori- 

 nils corollce erefto-patentibus* 



Viola folio Bacifera. Slo. Cat. 115. 



Jafminum. Inodorum repem &c. Barren 62* 

 Karinta Kab. H. M. tab. 21. 



The fmali creeping Pfychotrophum with Ground-Ivy Leaves 



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All thefe plants are very common in ¥, 



they are for the mod part fhruby 



and rife generally from three to fix or feven feet in height. The leaves are 

 difpofed in an oppofite order in all of them, and the foot-ftalks generally fupported 

 with fiipulce at their infertions : the flowers are commonly in loofe clufters, and ter- 

 minate the flalks and branches ; but the laft fort, whofe characters agree pretty well 



ely a creeper, moots by a veryflender fralk, 



both with thefe and the coffi 



and root6 almoft at every joint : They are all natives of the woods, and gro; 

 in a rich fhady foil. 



The feeds of all the fpecies are pretty much like thofe of coffee. 



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COFFEA 



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FruBicof a foliis oppojitis, Jioribus plurimis fejjillbus ad alas 



CofFea. L. Sp. PI. & H. CI 



CofFea. Arabica, &c. Pk. Ph. t» 27 

 Arbor Yemenfis. Fruftum Coffe feret 



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&c. &c. Dugl 



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The Coffee- tree. 



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mrub has been long introduced and cultivated in the jfland of J 



where it grows very luxuriantly, and rifes frequently to the height of eight 

 feet, fpreading its flexile branches to a confide rable diflance on every fide : it thr 

 beft in a rich foil, and cool (haded fit 

 moderate mare of moifture : and in fuch a foil and fituat 



fo great a quantity of fru 



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the branch 



where it can be duly refrelhed With 



generally prod 



hardly fuftain the weight, tho* 



bending to the ground > and you may frequently obferve the very trunk 



yield 



load 



The 



obferved to grow and thrive almofi: in every foil 



about the mountains, and will frequently produce great quantities of fruit 



in the 

 drieft fpots, tho' in Arabia, where this plant is a native and had been firft propa 



d brought into ufe, it is obferved to be cultivated between the hills; an 

 drought of the place is fuch, that they are frequently obliged to refrefh the 



gated 



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th water, which 



by 



chanels thro' every piece 



often wanted in that country is generally conveyed 



It is a general remark in England, and indeed 



one, that the coffee im 



ported from America does not anfwer fo well as that of the growth of Arabia, 



it owing (as fome imagine) to any foreign fume, or vapours it might have 



nor is 



(fled in th 





quifitio 



of th 



paffag 



great care mould be always taken to prev 

 for even there, what is commonly ufed 



any 

 ther 



parch 



mix like the Turkev coffee ; but this has been hitherto owing to the War 



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