An historical account of coffee. With an engraving, and botanical description of the tree. To which are added sundry papers relative to its culture and use, as an article of diet and commerce ... / [John Ellis].

  • Ellis, John, 1710?-1776
Date:
1774
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Credit: An historical account of coffee. With an engraving, and botanical description of the tree. To which are added sundry papers relative to its culture and use, as an article of diet and commerce ... / [John Ellis]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    A Botanical Defcription of the Flower and Fruit, &c„ Stamina. Filamenta quinque, fubulata, tubo corollae impo- fita. Antherre lineares, in- cumbentes, longitudine fila- mentorum. Pistillum. Germcn fubrotun- dum. Stylus fimplex, longitu¬ dine corolla. Stigmata duo, reflexa, fubulata craffiufcu- la. Fsricarpium. Bacca fubro- tunda, pundo umbilicafca. Semina. Bina, elliptico-he- mifphaerica, hincgibba, inde plana, arillo involuta. fegments. Thefe are longer than the tube, are fliarp- pointed, and reflexed on the Tides. The Chives confift of five awl- lhaped filaments fixed on the tube of the flower. On thefe are placed the linear-fhaped fummits, containing the male duft. Thefe are of the fame length with the filaments. The Pipl confifts of a round¬ ish germen, or embryo feed veflel. The ftyle is ftreight and even, of the length of the flower, and ends in two {lender, reflexed, Spungy tops. The Fruit is a roundifh berry, marked at the top with a pundure like a navel. It has two feeds, of an oblong o hemifpherical form, convex on the one fide, and flat on the other ; each of which is enclofed in a membrane, commonly called the parch¬ ment. Linnaeus has omitted taking notice of the feptum or membrane that divides the ieeds into two cells or loculaments; and alfo the li ttle furrow on the flat fide of each feed.—It frequently happens that in the Mocha Coffee only one feed is to be found, the other being defe&ive, AJhcrf