194 PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Cojfeff* 



Coffee, FpthergiU's Works, ii. p. 279. t. 3. ' \ 

 A native of Arabia, and now common in both Indies. In Bengal 

 it blossoms in March, and the berries ripen in December. 



In the West Indies Coffee plants are said to produce on an average 

 from six to sixteen ounces of clear coffee annually. Fother gill's 

 Works, ii„ p. 323. At St. Domingo they calculate on one pound 

 per plant. At Jamaica one pound and a half, and at Terra-Firma 

 two pounds, where the plants stand in quincunx, at from four to 

 eight feet according to the richness of the soil. English translation 

 of Depon's Travels in South America, i. 434. 1809-10. Two mid- 

 dling plants at the age of six or seven years produced in the botanic 

 garden in, one year or crop, seven pounds of the dry berries which 

 gave three pounds of clean coffee, equal to the Jamaica produce, 



3. C. bengalensis, R.* 



Shrubby. Leaves opposite, oblong. Flowers axillary. Segments 

 of the corol oblong. Filaments none. Anthers long and within the 

 tube. 



This is evidently distinct from C. arabica. Is found indigenous 

 amongst the mountains of the north-east frontier, 1 ]- chiefly about 

 Silhet, and from thence brought many years ago to Calcutta where 

 it was for some time much cultivated under the idea of its being the 

 real coffee of Arabia. It is now neglected, being of an inferior 

 quality, and not productive ; however the number and beauty of its 

 flowers entitles it to a conspicuous place in the flower garden* 

 Flowering time the beginning of the hcjt season. 



Root ramous. — Trunk short, and clothed with innumerable, ho- 

 rizontal, opposite branches and branchbts, to the surface of the 

 earth, forming in our gardens, a pjramidical bush of from four to 

 six feet in height. — Leaves opposite, sub-sessile, from ovate to ob- 

 long ; smooth on both sides, obtuse, pointed as in C. arabica (both 

 are now before sne just taken from the plants,) here are also pores 



* C. benghaknsis Heyne et Willd. ; Syst. Veg. v. 200.— N. W. 



J It is indigenous in every part of Bengal. Ed— My people brought it to D}Q 

 from Noakoteia NipaJ, blossoming in May,— N. W. 



