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closely grained. Pores very fine. Wood rays very fine, numerous, 

 short. Branches terete or at the extremities rather compressed. 

 Leaves borne in pairs, usually papery in texture, 7.5 cm. to 20 cm. 

 long by 3.2 cm. to 7.5 cm. wide, oval or elliptical, acuminate, 

 cuneate at the base, subcoriaceous, evergreen and usually persisting 

 for three years, somewhat undulated at the margin; 7-12 paired 

 lateral veins of first rank; petiole O.41 cm. to 1.25 cm. long; stipules 

 broadly ovate, apiculate, connate at the base, 0.41 cm. to 0.62 cm. 

 long. Flowers fragrant, 1.25 cm. to 1.87 cm. long just prior to 

 expansion, about half as long after expansion, subsessile or very 

 shortly pedicellate, 2 to 9 or more together in very short, axillary 

 or lateral bracteolate clusters; bracteoles ovate, the inner ones con- 

 nate at the base of the pedicels, falling short of the shallow sub- 

 truncate or obtusely 5-denticulate calyx-limb; corolla white; lobes 

 oval, obtuse or mucronulate, equalling or exceeding the corolla-tube, 

 spreading. Anthers rather shorter than the corolla-lobes, wholly 

 exserted, fixed rather below the middle to the filaments which are 

 about half as long as the anther. Disk glabrous. Style about equalling 

 the unexpanded flower, bifid ; lobes linear, narrower toward the tip. 

 Berry ellipsoidal, 0.93 cm. to 1.25 cm. long at first green, then red, 

 and at length blue-black; chartaceous integument ("parchment skin") 

 usually thin; seeds 0.83 cm. long. Caffeine-content of seeds varies 

 from 0.69 to 1.6%. 



Diagnostic Characters of the Species: — ^At least four flowers in 

 a fascicle. Leaves evergreen or perennial, ovate or elliptical, with 

 pointed apex, and 9 to 12 first-rank veins in the leaf lamina. Gamo- 

 sepalous calyx with a short 5-denticulate margin. 



Synonymy: — Cojfea vulgaris Moench Meth. PL (1794) 504. — 

 Coffea laurifolis Salisb. Prodr. (1796) 62. — Cojfea moka Hort. ex 

 Heynh. Nom. 2 (1846) 153. 



Common names: — Arabian Coffee; Maragogype Coffee; Moka or 

 Mocha Coffee; Blue Mountain Coffee; Chato Coffee; Common 

 Coffee; Nalknad Coffee; Peaberry Coffee. 



Dialect names of the East: — See in Appendix A, 'Eastern Dialect 

 Terms Synonymous with Coffee,' page 220 et seq. 



Geographical Distribution : — Abyssinia, Nile Land, Angola, Upper 

 Guinea, Lower Guinea, Mozambique Coast; Sierra Leone; Arabia. 

 Now widely cultivated following its introduction into the Celebes 



