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The line of growth, like the coffee-shrub and the copal-tree, suggests a connection across the Dark Continent: thus the similar flora of Fernando Po Peak, of Camarones volcano, and of the highlands of Abyssinia seems to prove a latitudinal range traversing the equatorial regions, where the glacial epoch banished for ever the hardier plants from the lower levels.
To the Gold Coast for Gold A Personal Narrative in Two Volumes.—Volume I Richard Francis Burton 1855
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Here is a coffee-shrub, with its ripe, aromatic berries; and here is the cacao-tree (_Theobroma cacao_).
The Forest Exiles The Perils of a Peruvian Family in the Wilds of the Amazon Mayne Reid 1850
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Here is a coffee-shrub, with its ripe, aromatic berries; and here is the cacao-tree.
Popular Adventure Tales Mayne Reid 1850
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Niebuhr is of opinion that the Arabian coffee-shrub might be cultivated in Palestine. [
Palestine or the Holy Land From the Earliest Period to the Present Time Michael Russell 1814
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