124 Select Plants for Industrial Culture find 



Hemileia, the evaporation being effected from sheltered vessels 

 placed somewhat above the ground. Another fungus-disease is the 

 leaf-rot or Candelillo, caused by Pellicularia Koleroga, (.Cooke.) 

 The Coffee-plant is also liable to suffer from the attacks of several 

 insects, viz : Xylotrechus quadrupes, called the borer, the bugs 

 Lecanium coffeae, L. iiigrum, Pseudococcus adonium and the 

 larvae of the moth Agrotis segetum [Dr. Gr. Watt]. See also, 

 essay by Mr. T. Dyer in Journal of Microsc. Soc., new series, vol. 

 xx. The Coffee-plant succeeds well even in the low regions of New 

 Britain [R. Parkinson]. Southward Eastern sub-tropical Australia 

 is still adapted for the culture of this important plant. A new 

 f prolific variety has come into use in Brazil, the " Maragogyne " 

 [Christy]. In America Coffee-plantations have suffered not only 

 from the attacks of an erysiphoid fungus, but also the Cemiostoma- 

 fly. Coffee-leaves have recently come into use as a substitute for tea. 



Coffea Ziiberica, Bull. 



Guinea. The Liberian Coffee-plant, distinguished already by 

 Afzelius. According to Dr. Imray this species has shown immunity 

 from the Cemiostoma-fly, and it is less effected by the Hemileia- 

 mould. It grows to the size of a real tree, is a rich bearer, and 

 the berries are larger than those of the ordinary Coffee-bush but 

 the (useless) pulp is about twice as large in proportion to the 

 seeds. The fruit requires a longer time to ripen (a year), but this 

 species can be grown in hot tropical countries down to the coast 

 [Lietze, Regel]. This species is highly ornamental in foliage and 

 its flowers are deliciously scented. 



Coix Xiachryma, Linne. 



South- Asia, New Guinea, Polynesia. "Job's Tears." This plant 

 is cultivated for food by the eastern hill-tribes of India and supplies 

 a staple-article of diet to the Tankhul Nagas of Manipur ; it is also 

 grown in Burma. The form cultivated for food has an easily 

 .breakable deeply furrowed shell, that of the wild plant being 

 extremly hard and shining. Seeds require long soaking before 

 they are sown [Dr. Watt]. The plant likes humidity ; it comes to 

 perfection at Port Phillip. C. tubulosa (Hackel) is a Papuan species. 



Cola acuminata, Schotfc and Endlicher. (Sterculia acuminata, BeauvQis.) 

 Western Africa. A small or middle-sized tree, perhaps -hardy 

 like many of the allied Sterculias, also outside the tropics in mild 

 regions. In Jamaica it is cultivated up to an elevation of 3,000 

 feet [W. Fawcett]. It furnishes the famed Cola-seeds, already 

 brought under notice by Caspar Bauhin. They have highly stimu- 

 lating-properties, reminding of those of Coca, and can be made into 

 an agreeable uiifermented beverage, against the pernicious custom 

 of indiscriminately treating with alcoholic liquids. Prof. E. Heckel, 

 of Marseille, converts the nuts as " Cola-paste " into an exceedingly 

 concentrated nutritious product [T. Christy]. Used now also for 



