COFFEE-TREE. 
The main stem grows upright, and is covered 
with a light brown hark. The branches are 
horizontal, opposite, brachiate at every joint, 
long, simple or undivided, slender, smooth, 
lax, and inclined to bend dowmvards : the 
lower branches are longest ; the others gra- 
dually decreasing, to the top, so as to form a 
pyramid. The leaves, when fully grown, are 
four or five inches long, and an inch and a 
half broad in the middle : they are opposite, 
and ovate-lanceolate ; the borders waved, the 
surface smooth, and of a lucid green, paler 
beneath. The petiole is only two or three 
lines in length; and, from the sides of the mid- 
rib, which is a continuation of it, issue twenty 
or more secretory punctures. The leaves ge- 
nerally continue three years. The flowers are 
produced in clusters of from two to four, at 
the base of the leaves, sitting close to the 
branches : they are of a pure white, and have 
a very grateful odour, but are of short duration. 
These flowers are succeeded by green berries ; 
which become red when they attain their full 
size, and change to black as they grow ripe. 
The berries are of an oblong spheroidal form . 
with a little circular area at the top, surround- 
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