( 4 ° ) 
Tlie Colour of the Fruit it felf is at firft green, which as it 
advances in Age and Size gradually changes, tirfl: to a red, and 
then pafling from one degree of that Colour to another, becomes 
very dark by the time that the Fruit is ripe. In all States it is 
of an oval or fpheroidical Figure, not unlike the Cornelian Cherry ; 
and I never found the longefl Diameter of it to raeafure much 
above half an Inch j nor the greateft Circumference above an 
Inch and an half. The tranfverle Diameter in thefe fame Berries 
was about feven fixteenth Parts of an Inch 5 and the Circumfe- 
rence that way an Inch and three eighth Parts. The Weight of 
the whole about eight Grains. 
The Pulp and Infide of the Pericardium is of a light red Co- 
lour, but this laft is variegated with many Streaks of white 3 even 
when the Fruit is come to Maturity-, this Covering is not very 
thick, and there appear no Signs then of its being lined with 
any inner Membrane; the Septum by which the two Kernels are 
parted, is Bill mucilaginous, and both of them are cover’d with 
a thick Subftance, of the fame Kind out of which the firft of 
the proper Coats is probably form’d by drying ; the fecond being 
vifible already. 
Thefe few Remarks concerning the Size, Appearance and 
Sublfance of the Pericarpium, are all which it is neceffiry to make * 
• about the frefh Fruit, as diftinguifh’d from the dry’d Berries. We 
fliall fee in another Place in what manner this is perform’d; and 
as the chief Defign of it is that the Husks and Kernels may after- 
wards be eafily feparated ; it is not often that we meet with many- 
dry ’d Berries intire in thefe Parts. I have however been at Pains 
to pick out a confiderable Quantity from Bales of raw Coffee at 
the Drugflers, and fome of them I found to contain two perfedl 
Kernels in one common Husk, others one only 5 I fay perfed: 
Kernels, becaufe even in thofe that arc fingle, there are moff com- 
monly, if not always, fome Remains of the abortive Kernel ly- 
ing like a Clypeus or Target upon the other, as fhall be explain’d 
more particularly afterwards. I have always obferv’d, that the 
Number of fucfi entire fingle Berries in each Bale exceeded the 
double ones 3 at a Medium of all the Tryals I made, the Propor- 
tion of them was nearly as feven to one. The Reafbn why we 
have any entire Berries at all imported can be no other than that 
they are fmaller than the reft, and fo efcape the Roller which the 
Arabians make Ufe of to take off the Husks; and as there are 
fewer double Berries of that fmall Size than finale ones, a greater 
Number of thefe muft remain with the Husks on. 
Thefe 
