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CHAP. VIII. 
The Coffee Fruit, 
T o the Flowers of the Colfee Plant, fucceeds the Fruit; 
which, as it is the only Part of the Plant that is ufed, will 
require to be treated at more Length than the reft. In order to 
do this with the greater Clearneft, I have thought it convenient 
to throw all that I have to fay upon this Subjed: into three di- 
ftind Articles 5 in the firft of which I lliall examine the whole 
outward Appearance and Coverings of the Fruit; in the fecond, 
the Nuclei or Kernels which thefe Coverings inclofej and in the 
third, the feminal plant, or true Seed : And under each of thefe 
Heads I fliall fabjoin fuch a Part of the hiftorical Remarks about 
the whole Fruit, as belongs to what is there treated. I fhould 
willingly have added a fourth Article, no lefs curious and enter- 
taining than the reft, concerning the Progrefs of the Fruit from 
the Time that the Flower decays, and the Vafcultm feminale be- 
gins to fwell, till it arrives at a State of perfed Maturity, in 
• which I here conftder it ; but in order to do that with all the Ac- 
curacy that is neceffary, I muft have deftroy’d a great many • 
more frefh Berries than I could poflibly obtain in this Place. I havo' 
been obliged therefore to content my felf with remarking the 
Changes that may be perceiv’d while the Fruit remains upon the 
Tree; and as thefe only regard the Size and Colour of the Pm- 
carpium or Coverings of the frelli Fruit, I have fet them down 
in the Article which is deftin’d for thefe. 
ART. I. 
The Coi^erings of the Coffee Fruit. 
I N a frefh Berry thefe Coverings may in a proper Senfe be 
term’d the Pericarpium of the Fruit, and therefore all that re- 
lates to the outward Appearance thereof can only be taken from 
this. The Situation of the Fruit upon the Trees, is the fame 
with that of the Flower, to which it fucceeds j only the Foot- 
Stalk flioots out by degrees to a greater Length, being, when the 
Fruit is ripe, above a quarter of an Inch long, its green Colour 
ftill continuing. 
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