Note 60 — XII.

The Javanese agriculturist, especially the coffee planter, is sadly tormented by three kinds of grass, which Dr. Junghuhn has named the Javanese Trinity, and which are invariably found with the coffee plant—Erichthitas Valerianifolia (which was introduced from Mocha with the coffee-shrub, and was never before known in Java), Agerahun Conisoïdes, and Bideus Sundaica. The civet-cat, too (called Luah in Javanese, Jjáruh in the Sunda language), does great damage to the coffee plantations, just as the crop is being collected. It eats only the fleshy part of the brown berry, the beans, at least according to what the Javanese say, actually gaining a flavour by the process to which they are subjected in the maw of the animal!