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seen from inside) in sestivation. Stamens 5 to 7, rarely 4 or 8, inserted 
at the mouth of the corolla, eiserted or partly included, glabrous ; 
filaments short or obsolete, or even two-ihirds of the length of the 
anthers ; anthers linear, fixed at the back above the base. Disk 
fleshy, glabrous. Ovary 2-celled ; style filiform, glabrous, usually 
shortly esserted, bifid; lobes linear, spathulate or tapering; ovules 
solitary, snbpeltately attached about the middle of the ovary or rather 
lower, amphitropouH. Berry ellipsoidal, oblong, or subglobose, more 
or less fleshy; pyrenes 2 (one Bornctimes abortive), papery or 
conaceous, convex on the back, flat with a narrow usually deep 
longitudinal furroAv on the face. Seeds plano-convex ; umbilicus 
ventral; testa membranous, intruded within the furrow of the face; 
embryo soiiunvhat curved ; cotylodoas foliaceous ; radicle subterete, 
inferior, longer than the cotyledons; albumen horny. Shrubs or 
small trees with opposite branches and leaves. Leaves ovate or 
lanceolate, apicuiate intrapetiolar stipules, axiilaiy or terminal solitary 
or clustered white fragrant herniaphrodito flowers, and bracteoles 
usually cgnuate into a single or double cup at the base of the calyx or 
on the short jiedicel or peduncle. 
C- arabica, Linn. The Cofee. A glabrous glossy shrub or small 
tree. Brandies terete, or at the extremities rather compressed. 
Leaves oval, or elliptical, acuminate, wedge-shaped at llie base, 
subcoi'iaceous. evergreen (usually persisting for three years), aome- 
wdiat undulate, 3 to 8 by If to 3 inches; lateral veins 7 to 12 pairs ; 
margins rather undulate ; petiole 2 to 6 lines long; stipules broadly 
ovate, apieulate, connate at the base, 2 to 4 lines long. Flowers 
fragrant, i to | incli long just before expEinsion, about half as long 
after expansion, BubseBBiio or very shortly pedicellate, 2 to 9 or more 
together in very short axillary orlatcralbracteolatc clusters; bracteoles 
ovate, the inner ones connate at the base of the pedicels, falling short 
of the shaUo^v subtruncate or obtusely 5-dentieuIate calyx limb. 
Corolla white; lobes ova!, obtuse, or mucronulate, equalling or exceed- 
ing the tube, Bpreading. Anthers ratlier shorter than the corolla- 
lobes, wholly exserted, fixed rather below the middle to the filament, 
■which are about half as long. Disk glabrous. Style about equalling 
the unexpancled flower, bifid ; lobes linear, narrower towards the tip. 
Berry ellipsoidal, i-inch or more long, red when ripe. Seeds from 
4 to 0 lines long. 
Order COMPOSITE. 
This is the most extensive family amongst flowering plants, 
number of species 10,000 in 800 genera, and represented in every 
quarter of the globe and in every variety of station. 
Flowers or Jlonets collected together in a head (rarely reduced to 
a single floret), surrounded by an involucre of several bracts, either in 
one row or imbricated iu several rows, the whole having the appearance 
of a single flower. Beccptacle on which the florets are inserted either 
naked or hearing chaffy scales or hairs or bristles between the florets. 
In each floret the calyx is w^anting or converted into a pa/}pi(>s or ring 
of hairs or scales on the top of the ovary. Corollas cither all 
hermaphrodite, tubular, and 5 or rarely 4-toothed (heads discoid) 
or all hermaphrodite and that is, with a slender tube and a 
fiat strap-shaped lamina, or those of the centre or disk tubular and 
