182 LXX, RUBIACEH (HIERN). [ Coffea. 
The source of the Liberian coffee, and probably also of the Cape-Coast coffee ; it 
is said to be far superior to C. arabica, Linn., having larger berries and a finer 
flavour, and being at the same time more robust and productive. 
3. ©. stenophylla, G. Don, Gen. Syst. iii. p. 581. A small 
tree of 20 feet or a shrub of 4-6 feet, glabrous, glossy. Stem 
about 10 feet high, 13 in. diam. near the base; bark smooth, grey. 
Branches slender, terete, compressed towards the extremities, the 
lower ones irregularly scattered, the upper ones opposite, brachiate, 
leafy. Leaves elliptic-oblong or obovate, caudate-acuminate, wedge- 
shaped at the base, subcoriaceous, somewhat undulated, 14-5¢ by 
1_j1 in.; lateral veins about 7-9 pairs, inconspicuous above, marke 
beneath with small punctured glands in the axils; petiole 7,—¢ in. long; 
stipules apiculate from broad ovate or subtruncate connate base, about 
equalling the petiole. Flowers 3-Z in. long just before expansion, 
4-3 in. after expansion, 3-1 together, subsessile, in axillary clusters ; 
bracteoles ovate or lanceolate-oblong, the upperones connate below and 
rather exceeding the small pale green subentire calyx-limb which just 
exceeds the disk. Corolla-tube } in. long ; lobes 6-8, oval or oblong, 
obtuse, +°;~2 in. long, spreading. Anthers wholly exserted, fixed at ard 
above the base, three times the length of the filaments, }-3 in. long. 
Style nearly equalling the unexpanded flower, bifid ; lobes narrowly 
linear. Berry prolate-spheroidal, 4 in. long, black when ripe, shortly 
pedicelled. Seed 4in. long.—O. arabica, Benth. in Hook. Niger Fi. 
413 (pwt.), non Linn. 
Upper Guinea. Sierra Leone, Afzelius! Morson! G. Don! Barter! 
The highland coffee of Sierra Leone (Dr. Daniell). 
4. G. Zanguebariw, Louwr. Fl. Cochinch. p. 145 (1790). A 
glabrous erect closely branched small tree, 6 feet high. Branches 
cinereous, rather thick, short, subterete, the young ones compressed. 
Leaves oval or obovate, obtuse or shortly pointed, wedge-shaped at the 
base, chartaceous, 2-4 by $-21 in. ; lateral veins about 5-6 pairs, with 
little hairy tufts in the axils; petiole ,,-1 in.; stipules ovate ap» 
culate connate at the base, 7-4 in. long. Flowers white, axillary, 
many together, hexamerous or heptamerous, shortly pedicellate, clus- 
tered; bracteoles deltoid or subtruncate, apiculate, all falling short of 
the minute calyx-limb. Corolla-lobes 6-7. Berry red, turning black, 
oblong, longitudinally nerved, 4-3 in.long.— Amajoua africana, Spreng: 
Syst. Veg. 1. 126. 
Mozamb. Distr. Zanzibar coast (in woods, native), Loureiro ; Mozambique, 
Forbes ! Loureiro (cultivated). 
5. G. brevipes, Hiern in Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond., ser: il., } 
p. 172. A glabrous glossy shrub, 4-6 feet high. Branches slender, 
smooth, terete, somewhat compressed at the extremities. Leaves 
elliptic-obovate, acuminate, wedge-shaped at the base, firmly charta- 
ceous, 4-84 by 14-2? in. ; lateral veins about 6-8 pairs ; petiole qa iB 
stipules ovate, apiculate, connate at the base, exceeding the Pe 
tioles, }~2 in. long. Flowers solitary, subsessile, axillary, $-§ in- 108 
