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tries combined. Other 
prominent coffee-grow- 
ing countries are Mexi- 
co, Central America, 
Java, Sumatra, India, 
Ceylon, Arabia, Ha- 
waiian Islands, and the 
West Indies. Of the 
many thousand tons 
shipped from these 
countries, the United 
States consumes nearly 
one-half, averaging over 
nine pounds a year for 
each inhabitant. Mocha 
Pic. 296.-Coffee-plant: 4A, flowering branch; 
B, berry; C, section of berry; D, seeds 
(coffee-heans),—After WossipLo. 
coffee comes from Ara- 
bia, while the sources 
of the other kinds are 
usually indicated by the 
names. 
Cinchona. — This is 
the name of a genus 
containing numerous 
species of trees that 
grow in South America, 
chiefly along the east- 
ern slopes of the west- 
ern mountains (Fig. 
297). The bark yields 
Fia, 297.—Flowering branch of a cinchona aes 
plant.—After Baruon. the well-known quinine, 
