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SUB-VARIETIES. 



Natal, Java, Sumatra and other islands in the Malay- 

 Archipelago, as well as in Mexico, the West Indies, 

 Central and South America and recently in Austral- 

 asia, furnishing almost the whole of the coffees of 

 commerce. 



Coffea Liberica, 



Or " Liberian Coffee plant," which has recently been 

 brought forward as a rival to the Arabian variety, is 

 an indigenous species found both in a wild and culti- 

 vated state on the west coast of Africa, and which in an 

 adult cultivated state ranges in height from fifteen to 

 twenty feet, being of tree-like habits. The trunk is thick, 

 very erect, and covered with a dark -brown bark of a 

 downy texture. The branches also differ from those of 

 the Arabian species insomuch as they do not possess 



