Kola Nut
the product of a tree whose habitat is a West African region stretching 500 miles from the coast into Lower Guinea. The tree is from 20 to interior, between Sierra Leone and 30 feet high, has smooth cylindrical branches, and bears a profusion of purplish flowers. The flower yields a large brownish-yellow fruit, which enfolds in the same follicle the red and white seeds that are inaptly called kola nuts. The tree begins to bear in its fourth or fifth year, but attains its greatest fecundity only in its tenth. Kola contains nearly cocoa, and other constituents not posall the constituents of coffee, tea, and sessed by them. It has a larger proporhe w ne he s of th ged at M KOLCHAK tion of caffeine than coffee or tea, and more theobromine than cocoa