Coffea. | LXX. RUBIACE® (HIERN). 181 
before expansion, about half as long after expansion, subsessile or very 
shortly pedicellate, 2-9 or more together in very short axillary or late- 
ral bracteolate clusters ; bracteoles ovate, the inner ones connate at the 
base of the pedicels, falling short of the shallow subtruncate or obtusely 
5-denticulate calyx-limb. Corolla white; lobes oval, obtuse or mucro- 
nulate, equalling or exceeding the tube, spreading. Anthersrathershorter 
than the corolla-lobes, wholly exserted, fixed rather below the middle to 
the filaments, which are about half as long. Disk glabrous. Style about 
equalling the unexpanded flower, bifid; lobes linear, narrower towards 
the tip. Berry ellipsoidal, 3-4 in. long, at first green, then red, and at 
length blue-black. Seeds from 4 to nearly $ in. long.—C. laurifolia, Sa- 
lish. Prodr. Stirp. Hort. Chapel Allert. p. 62 (1796), non H. B. et K. 
Upper Guinea. Fernando Po, Barter! (cultivated). 
- Nile Land. Abyssinia, spontaneous and cultivated, Schimper ! Q. Dillon et Petit! 
erret et Galinier ; Karagué, a market produce, and Victoria Nyanza, Speke and Grant. 
Lower Guinea. Angola, teste Welwitsch! Apontamentos, p. 549 (1859), in 
lung Alto, indigenous and cultivated. . 
, Mozamb. Distr. Mozambique coast especially opposite the Querimba Islands, 
wild and cultivated, Peters, fide Klotsch in Peters Mossamb. 291. 
Cultivated also in Arabia (where it is said to be indigenous), in Natal, and 
t Toughout tropical India and America. It is probable that it is a true native of 
yssinia. 
Var. leucocarpa, Hiern in Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond., Ser. ii., i. p. 171. A glabrous 
shrub, Branches terete, somewhat compressed towards the extremities. Leaves 
elliptic-oblong, obtusely acuminate, wedge-shaped at the base, thinly coriaceous, 3-6 
Y 1-2 in. ; lateral veins about 6-7 pairs, inconspicuous, not glandular in the axils ; 
petiole 42 in, ; stipules sheathing at the base, subtruncate, subapiculate, 4 in. long, 
Flowers few together in short axillary clusters. Bracteoles ovate, falling short of 
° fruiting pedicel by about 7;-4 in. Berries white, solitary or 2 together, roundly 
spheroidal, % long, smooth. Seeds } in. long. 
Upper Guinea. Sierra Leone, Th. Vogel ! 
, 26, liberica, Bull ex Hiern in Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond., ser. il., 
1p.171, 4.24. A glabrous glossy shrub. Branches smooth, spreading, 
Subterete, somewhat compressed towards the extremities. Leaves 
elliptic-obovate, shortly acuminate, wedge-shaped or obtusely narrowed 
at the base, somewhat undulated, thinly coriaceous, 446-12 by 
1}-2-43 in. ; lateral veins about 8-12 pairs, with glands in the axils 
“pening by a small hole beneath ; petiole $-2 in. long; stipules broadly 
ovate, apiculate, connate at the base, shorter than the petiole, 34 in. 
ong. Flowers 7-6-merous, subsessile, several together, clustered, 
axillary, 1 in, long when expanded ; bracteoles connate, calyculate, 
depresso-deltoid, subtruncate, all shorter than the subtruncate calyx ; 
“ometimes one oval bracteole is produced above the others. Calyx-limb 
annular, very short. Corolla-lobes 7-6, oval, obtuse, about as long as 
the tube, spreading. Anthers 7-6, wholly exserted, } in. long; fila- 
ents 3 in, Berry oval, $ in. long or rather more, black when ripe. 
H $ in. or rather more. Style exserted, bifid.—C. arabica, Benth. in 
ook. Niger FI. 418 (part.), non Linn. 
Upper Guinea. Sierra Leone, Afzelius! Monrovia (native) and Cape Palmas 
(cultivated, July, 1841), 7%. Vogel! Daniell ! (Sierra Leone, cultivated). 
(in er Guinea. Golungo Alto, Welwitsch! Cazengo, Welwitsch! indigenous 
young fruit), 
