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NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



neut,' sometimes nil, and a hypocrateriform or infundibuliform 

 corolla, glabrous or hairy in the throat, with a limb divided into four 



Coffea arabica. 



Fig. 254. Fructiferous branch (^). 



or five^ lobes twisted in the bud. The stamens,^ alternate, are 

 composed of a filament, generally short, attached to the throat of 

 the corolla or in the sinus of its divisions, and supports a dorsifixed 



V. 17, t. lbis-4.— B.H. Gen. ii. 114, n. 238.— 

 Baker, Fl. Maurit. \b1.—Coffe Eay, Bist. PL 

 ii. 1691. — Cofea Apans. Fam. des PI. ii. 145 

 (1763). 



1 Often accompanied by a bed of waxy matter 



covering the top of the bud and secreted in 

 abundance between it and the surrounding 

 bracts. 



2 There may be six. 



^ Dimorphous in C. arabica and others. 



