26 The Cultivation and Preparation of Coffee 



I find in the bulletin of the Ministry of 

 Public Works of the Eepublic of Venezuela 

 that a new species of coffee known in the 

 market as Eobusta coffee, originating from 

 Africa, was put into the market by a firm 

 in Brussels. It is said that the representative 

 of this firm found this species of coffee in the 

 Congo, and in the catalogue for 1900 it was 

 described and offered for sale for the first time. 

 It is due to its vigorous vegetation that the 

 name " Kobusta " was given to this species of 

 coffee. However, this is not its scientific name, 

 because its description is not complete. 



Some people are of the opinion that Bobusta 

 and Laurentii coffee are identical, this latter 

 being a new species of coffee discovered in the 

 Congo by the Belgian explorer, M. Emile 

 Laurent. There is a great similarity between 

 the two. Eobusta coffee and Laurentii coffee 

 are distinct new species from the others, 

 Arabian or Liberian, the difference being as 

 much as there is between Arabian and 

 Liberian. 



When Eobusta coffee was sold for the first 

 time several coffee planters in Java ordered 

 young plants from Brussels, which were 

 specially packed, and at the end of 1900 this 

 new species was planted in various plantations 

 in the east and centre of Java. During the first 



