44 OTHER VARIETIES. 



berry, style of bean, strength and flavor, it is a species 

 to be recommended. 



There are numerous other varieties of the Coffee plant^ 

 closely allied, but still markedly distinct from the fore- 

 going species, inasmuch as they do not possess any 

 valuable or intrinsic properties, being cultivated only for 

 the sake of their foliage or flowers. Among which is 

 that of : 



GofTea Mauritiana. Found on the island of Mauri- 

 tius, and evidently belonging to the Arabian species, yet 

 claimed by LaMarche to be specifically distinct from it, 

 on account of the difference in the size and form of its 

 fruit. This eminent botanist must have been unaccount- 

 ably negligent with respect to its specific character, 

 having retained the description given by Linnaeus of the 

 Arabian plant, which is in the Plantarium described as 

 entirely opposite to it. 



Coffea Guinensis. A native of Guinea, on the 

 west coast of Africa, and a shrub from one to two feet 

 high, with flowers quadrified, berries small and violet- 

 colored, seeds two in number, cartilaginous and pointed 

 at the ends ; but found to be entirely devoid of the value- 

 able or stimulating properties so characteristic of those 

 of the true Coffee plant. 



Coffea Fanenlato. Another species, also found on 

 the Guinea coast, being a shrub having a large trunk, 

 from seven to eight feet high, covered with a gray, 

 cracked bark and yielding a fruit totally different from 

 that of Coffee. 



GofTea Racemora. A species found in a wild state 

 on the east coast of Africa, and in a state of cultivation 



