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; and the Growth of the Branches is perform’d in the 
lame manner. 
On thefe all the other Leaves are to be found. They arife 
from the Nodi already mention’d in an oppofite Situation to one 
another j that is, one on each Side 3 but they are all in the fame 
Plain, in which they differ from thofe of the Trunk; and in 
their natural Situation, before they come to be bent and diflorted, 
both Edges are at an equal Diftance from the Horizon. The 
Number of Leaves on each Branch, is, I believe, pretty nearly 
proportionable to the Length of the Branches. On one, which 
meafured eighteen Inches, there were fixteen Pair of Leaves, but 
the Diftance between each Pair is not always the fame. 
The Size of the Leaves on the fame Branch is (till more diffe- 
rent,- neither are the largefl always nearefl: the Trunk, but indif' 
ferently on any other Part of the Branch *, and it is certain that 
all of them do not arrive at the fame Dimcnfions before they de- 
cay. The firfl Sign of that is a Change of the Colour from 
Green to a light Yellow towards the Top, from thence it fpreads 
over the whole Leaf, and to that a browniili Colour fucceeds, 
but not till that Parc of the Leaf where it is found is quite dry’d 
and wafted. The Time when this happens, with refped to eve- 
ry fingle Leaf, is not long after it has grown to its full Extent; 
tho’ I am apt to think that their being fo clofely pent up in Stoves 
may contribute fomething to the Shortnefs of their Duration ; the 
Plant it felf, neverthelefs, is undoubtedly an Ever- green; and I 
believe there is very little Difference to be obferved in the Num- 
ber of green Leaves in any Seafon of the Year; but whether, or 
in what time young ones grow out from the fame Nodus from 
whence the old ones fell, I have not had an Opportunity of ob- 
ferving. 
jilpinui has only obferv’d about the 
Leaves of this Plant, that they are thicker, 
harder and greener than thofe of the Em- 
njmus^ and that they remain always green 
(pe:petnb 'viremia) : This laft, as we have 
heard, muft be meant of the whole Plant, 
not of any lingle Leaf. In his Figure the 
Shape of the Leaves is very ill reprefented ; 
but the Manner in which they arife from 
the Branches tolerably well, if we except 
the crolTing. 
Monf. Du Four obferves further. That 
they are not very large, but pretty thick, 
in proportion to their Extent ; that they are 
intire, or without Incifures; and that in 
every refped they are very much like thofe 
of a middling Cherry Tree. He takes 
Notice like wile that this Plant is an Ever- 
green, but however that the Leaves decay 
and fall off very foon, the Fruit remaining 
naked and expos’d upon the Tree. This 
Defeription is meant of the Coffee Leaves 
\n Arabia FeliXi none of which Monf. Du 
Four ever faw,- and therefore the Inaccuracy 
of it is to be imputed not fo much to him 
as to thofe from whom he had his Infor- 
mations. 
Sir Flam Sloane is the firfl who has ex- 
prefs’d the Manner in which thefe Leaves 
arife from the Branches ; and be has like- 
wife added feveral new Obfervations about 
them. ‘ After the fame manner, fays he, 
‘ fland the Leaves on the Twigs, as the 
‘ Twigs on the Branches, at fome times an 
‘ Inch, fometimes two Inches Diftance, 
‘ each Pair of Leaves from the other. The 
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