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NATUBAL HISTOBY OF PLANTS. 



neut,' sometimes nil, and a hypocrateriform or infundibiiliform 

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



Coffea araliea. 



Fig. 254. Fructiferous tranoh 



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. — covering the top of the bud and secreted in 



Batcee, Fl. Mauril. 152. — Cqfe Eay, Mist. PI. atundauce between it and the surrounding 



ii. 1691. — Cofea Abans. Fam. des PI, ii. 145 bracts. 

 (1763). " There may be six. 



' Often accompanied by a bed of waxy matter ' Dimorphous in C. arahica and others. 



