42 SUB-VARIETIES. 



Guinea coast and is to be distinguished from the ordinary 

 shrub by much more vigorous growth, by affecting flat, 

 low and coast lands as well as hill sides, by attaining 

 greater size and withstanding greater extremes of cli- 

 mate. It also possesses the additional advantage in that it 

 is capable of improvement by cultivation, and though as 

 liable to disease as the Arabian plant, appears to be 

 affected only in a minor degree, while on the other hand 

 the product is much coarser flavored, which is considered 

 no drawback- to its being used for admixture with 

 better sorts, by which means it yields a cheap, yet gen- 

 uine beverage. Experiments have been lately tried in 

 Ceylon of grafting the finer flavored Arabian on the 

 stocks of this species, thus producing a hybrid from 

 which great benefits are anticipated in the future. It 

 is a species, moreover, which grows w^ell in low alti- 

 tudes, and would probably flourish is situations that have 

 proved unsuitable for the Arabian plant, and should it 

 come up to the sanguine expectations of the Java, Cey- 

 lon, Mexican, South American and other planters, to 

 whom it has been submitted for experiment, there is no 

 doubt but that it will prove a formidable rival to the 

 species which have hitherto received the exclusive atten- 

 tion of planters generally. 



