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COFFEE AND CHICORY, 



COFFEE. 



SECTION I. 



BOTANICAL DESCRIPTION. 



THE coffee-tree Coffea ardbica, Linn. is a plant belong- 

 ing to the natural order CincJionacecB. It is a large erect 

 bush, quite smooth in every part ; leaves oblong lanceolate, 

 acuminate, shining on the upper side, wavy, deep green 

 above, paler below ; stipules subulate, undivided. Peduncles 

 axillary, sbort, clustered ; corollas white, funnel-shaped, 

 sweet-scented, with four or five oblong-spreading twisted 

 lobes. Fruit a compressed drupe, furrowed along the aide, 

 crowned by the calyx. Seeds solitary, plano-convex, with a 

 deep furrow along the flat side. Putamen like parchment. 



The generic name given to the plant by Linnaeus was 

 taken, it is said, from Coffee, a province of Narea, in Africa 

 where it grows in abundance. 



Plate 1 represents a branch of the coffee-tree in blossom 

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