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CHAP. VII. 
The Flower of the Coffee Plant. 
^ H E Flower arifes from the very Middle of the Alee folio- 
* ^ rum, or Jundure of the Leaves and Branches,, by a fmall 
sreen Pedunculus. or Foot Stalk, which tho’ not above the eighth 
Part of an Inch in Length, may neverthelels be plainly perceiv’d 
not to run in the lame Plain with the Branches, but to be a lit- 
tle inclin’d upwards j and for that Realon the reil of the Flower 
appears to be fituated not lo much between the Leaf and Branch 
as above them both. 
Round the Edges of the upper Extremity of the Pedunculus, 
arifes the Calix or Cup of the Flower, and is prefently after di- 
vided into four or five fmall Segments j two of which, commonly 
larger than the reft, we may obferve to be of the lame Texture 
and Shape with the Leaves of the Plant, and to run up a little 
way upon the tubulous Part of the Petalum, at a little Diftance 
from it 5 for this Reafon, and alfo becauft the Foot Stalk being 
fo very fhort, it is not always eafy to diftinguifli whether thefe 
Segments arile from it, or immediately from the^/^fj they might 
equally be fuppos’d to be the Beginnings of new Leaves Ipring- 
ing out with the Flower, only that they decay loon after it, leav- 
ing the Fruit naked. This evidently proves that they are all of 
the Nature of a Calix, the Ufe of which is to ferve firft for a 
Perianthium, before the Flower is quite blown, and afterwards to 
defend the tender Ovarium. 
O V A R I U M. 
This Onjarium, or Seed Veflel, is fix’d to the upper Extremity 
of the Pedunculus within the Calix •, and confider’d in this State, 
that is, as making a Part of the Flower, it is only a fmall green 
Globule, in which nothing farther can with Certainty be diftin- 
guifh’d, till after the Decay of the Flower. Then it begins to 
Iwell, and by degrees advances to a perfed: Maturity, as we 
lhall fee in deftribing the Coffee Fruit. 
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