ROS. NATURAL HISTORY. 
or ten feet. The twigs and leaves rife by pairs: The | 
leaves are two inches broad in the middle, from 
whence they decreafe toa point at each extremity. 
As this tree will not thrive when tranfplanted, unlefs © 
kept in mould, it has been found very difficult to rear | 
it in diftant climates: But this inconvenience has, by 
attention and perfeverance, been fe confiderably di- 
minifhed, thatit is now cultivated, with the molt 
Pere fuccefs, in the Weft as well as in the Fait 
indies. | 
The fruit hangs on the twigs, by a foot ftalk, con- © 
taining one, two, or more, in the fame place. Thefe © 
thrubs are watered by artificial channels, like other — 
vegetables; and, after three or four years bearing, 
the natives plant new fhrubs, in confequence of the © 
old beginning then to decline. They dry the berry | 
in the fun, and afterwards diveft it of the outward © 
hufks, with hand mills. In the hot feafons, they ufe 
‘thefe hufks, roafted, inftead of the coffee berries; and 
efteem the liquor impregnated with them more * 
cooling. ; 
The coffee berries are generally ripe in April: 
‘They are efteemed, as being of an excellent drying 
quality, comforting the brain, eafing pains in the — 
head, fupprefling vapours, drying up erudities, pre~ — 
venting drowfinefs and reviving the fpirits. ' 
Sep NEMENG2494— 
TEA SHRUB. 
‘Tar tea fhrub grows plentifully in feveral parts 
of the Eaftindies, and affords a leaf which is too well 
known, according to the opinion of our phyficians, in 
every country in Europe. It is brought from China, 
Japan and Siam. The leaves are gathered in the 
{pring ; and bear a flower of five leaves, refembling a 
rofe ; and thefe fucceed a cod, like a hazel nut. The 
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