Coffea. | LXX. RUBIACEE (HIERN). 183 
just before expansion, }—} in. long when expanded ; bracteoles 4, in 2 
pairs, one pair deltoid-apiculate, the other pair longer, outer lanceolate, 
all connate at the base into a tube nearly equalling the ovary, the free 
parts much exceeding the obsolete calyx-limb. Corolla lobes 5~6, oval 
or oblong, g-? in. long. Stamens 5-6; anthers wholly exserted, 
3~ in. long, fixed at the back rather below the middle, about twice the 
length of the filaments. Fruit ellipsoidal, smooth, } in. long, 2-celled, 
2-seeded. Seeds ? in. long, smelling of coffee. 
Upper Guinea. Cameroon Mountains, at 2-3,000 ft. alt., Mann’ 
6. G. melanocarpa, Welw. ex Hiern in Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond. 
ser. ii., i, p. 173. A glabrous shrub, 4-6 feet high, or sometimes a 
small tree of the same height. Branchlets slender, erect-patent ; bark 
pale. Leaves opposite, oval, acuminate, usually wedge-shaped at the 
base, membranous, of the same colour on both surfaces, 2-6 by 3-24 in.; 
lateral veins about 4—5 pairs, slender, inconspicuous ; petiole 4—# in. ; 
stipules depresso-deltoid, very short, apiculate. Flowers few together 
or solitary, subsessile, axillary, sometimes also in the uppermost axils, 
i company with the leaves, about 1 in. long when expanded ; bracteoles 
calyculate, falling short of the annular abbreviated denticulate calyx- 
limb ; buds gummy. Corolla caducous; lobes 5, about 3 in. long; 
throat bearded. Anthers nearly or wholly included. Style included. 
Berry subglobose, quite black, 4-3 in. diam. 
D Lower Guinea. Golungo Alto, in dense woods, at St. de Bumba, near the 
elamboa River, Welwitsch ! 
’. G. hypoglauca, Welw. ex Hiern in Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond. 
Ser. 11., i, p. 178. A small glabrous tree, 8-20 feet high. Branches 
Patent, from a straight erect trunk, forming a lax crown. Leaves op- 
Posite, oval or somewhat ovate, acuminate, rather wedge-shaped at the 
Se, thinly coriaceous, shining, whitish or glaucescent beneath, 3-9 by 
~83 in. ; lateral veins about 4-6 pairs, rather slender ; petiole 3-4 in. ; 
stipules lanceolate-subulate from a broad base, 4-3 in. long. Flowers 
Solitary or 2-3 together, subsessile; bracteoles imbricate, rounded, 
1 e apiculate. Berries solitary, subglobose, green when immature, 
in. diam., crowned by the persistent 5-partite broadly imbricated 
calyx-limb. Calyx-lobes broad, rounded. 
Lo . he 
River Te ngle, Hae ech te Andongo, in wooded places near Catete, and by t 
is C. ? microcarpa, DO. Prodr. iv. p. 499 (1830), non Ruiz 
oh avon. A shrub with glabrous branchlets. Leaves elliptic-oblong, 
i ortly acuminate, 24 by 3 in., glabrous; stipules acuminate-subu- 
i® deciduous, undivided, solitary. Fruits ellipsoidal, 3 times the 
ength of the pedicel, crowned by the cup-shaped 5-dentate calyx-limb.— 
(leggy tt (?), Steud. ex Buek, Index DC., pars i., pref. p. ix. 
Upper Guinea. Senegambia, at Cape Rouge Casamancia, Leprieur § Perrottet. 
ve seeen no specimen of this species. 
