96 Select Plants for Industrial Culture 



Cocos flexuosa, Martius. 



Brazil, extending far south. This slender and rather tall decorative 

 Palm belongs to the dry Cactus-region with C. coronata, C. capitata, 

 Astrocaryum campestre, Diplothemium campestre arid Acrocomia 

 sclerocarpa (Martius). Cocos coronata withstood at Hyeres a tem- 

 perature of 22 F. (Bonnet). 



Cocos plumosa, Loddiges. 



South-Brazil. This splendid Feather-palm attains a height of 60 

 feet. It is one of the hardiest of all palms, requiring no protection 

 at Port Phillip. Stem comparatively slender. 



COCOS regia, Liebmann. 



Mexico, up to 2,500 feet. A Palm of enormous height; almost 

 sure to prove hardy in the mildest extra-tropic latitudes. 



Cocos Romanzofliana, Chamisso. 



Extra-tropic Brazil. This noble Palm attains a height of 40 feet. 



Cocos Yatay, Martius.* 



Rio Grande do Sul, Uruguay and Argentina. Forms distinct 

 forests mainly with C. australis and C. Datil (Drude). The last 

 mentioned bears date-like fruits, according to Dr. Lorentz. The 

 kernels of the nuts of C. Yatay are edible. The incomparably 

 valuable strictly tropical Cocoanut-palm Cocos nucifera (Linne) has 

 fruited at the verge of the tropics in Queensland at Rockhampton 

 under the care of Mr. J. S. Edgar. 



Coflfea Arabica, Linn. 



Mountains of South-Western Abyssinia, extending as indigenous, 

 according to Welwitsch and Peters, to Mozambique and Guinea. 

 The Coffee-plant. This shrub or small tree has been admitted into 

 this list, not without great hesitation, merely to avoid passing it. The 

 cultivation within extra-tropical boundaries can only be tried with any 

 prospect of success in the warmest and at the same time moistest 

 regions, frost being detrimental to the Coffee-plant. In Ceylon the 

 coffee-regions are between 1,000 and 5,000 feet above the ocean; but 

 Dr. Thwaites observes, that the plant succeeds best at an elevation of 

 from 3,000 to 4,500 feet, in places, where there is a rainfall of about 

 100 inches a year. The temperature there hardly ever rises above 

 80 F., and almost never sinks below 45 F. Coffee requires moist 

 weather, whilst it ripens its fruit, and a season of drier weather to 

 form its wood. Average-yield in Ceylon 4 to 5 cwt. per acre. An 

 extraordinarily prolific variety of coffee was introduced twenty years 

 ago by the writer of this work into Fiji, where it now forms the main 

 plantations. The Coffee-plant has been found hardy as far north as 

 Florida. For many particulars see the papers of the Planters' Associa- 

 tion of Kandy. The importations of Coffee into the United Kingdom 

 in 1884 amounted to 1,134,000 cwt. (about one-quarter being for 

 home-consumption) valued at 3j million pounds sterling. Chemical 





