COFFEE-TREE* 
ing a callous dot : the pulp is pale, insipid, and 
gelatinous. There are two cells within, the 
partition of which is fleshy and vascular ; this 
is the only receptacle, and penetrates the cleft 
of the seeds. In each cell there is only a single 
seed; which is of an elliptic form, convex on 
one side and flat on the other, with a longi- 
tudinal cleft : it is of a pale glaucous colour ; 
and loosely covered by an elastic, diaphanous 
aril, the substance of paper. 
The agreeable beverage which we call 
Coffee, prepared from the berry of this tree, 
is said to have been used in ^Ethiopia from 
time immemorial. 
According to Mr. Bruce, the Galla, a wan- 
dering- nation of Africa, in their incursions on 
Abyssinia, being obliged to traverse immense 
desarts, and being also desirous of falling on 
the Abyssinians without warning, that they 
may be encumbered as little as possible with 
baggage, carry nothing with them to eat but 
Coffee roasted till it can be pulverized, mixed 
with butter into balls, and placed in a leather 
bag : one of these, about the size of a billiard 
ball, 
