Coffea. ] LXX. RUBIACEN (HIERN). 185 
the small subtruncate or denticulate not obsolete calyx-limb. Corolla- 
tube $ in. long ; lobes oval, obtuse, in. long. Anthers 5 (or rarely 
4°), sessile, inserted at the back at or rather above the middle, mostly 
included, 4-1 in. long. 
Upper Guinea. Abbeokuta, on rocks, Barter ! 
12. C. jasminoides, Welw. ex Hiern in Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond., 
ser. i. p. 175. A trailing, much branched, deciduous, undershrub 
of 2-5 feet. Branches terete, glabrescent, elongated, spreading ; leafy 
shoots pubescent, short. Leaves oval, shortly pointed or acuminate, 
mucronulate, rounded at the base or nearly so, hispidulous with scat- 
tered short hairs especially on the margins and veins, chartaceous, 
Sometimes subverticillate in fours by the approximation of the upper 
internodes, 1-3 by 2-14 in.; lateral veins about 5 pairs, slender ; petiole 
Tz-¢ in., pubescent ; stipules ovate, acuminate-apiculate, imbricating, 
Setaceus-apiculate, about 3-}in. long. Flowers precocious, white, out- 
side often rose-red, ranging up to 14 in. long when expanded, fragrant, 
Solitary or few together, lateral, terminating incipient lateral shoots, 
subsessile, heptamerous or hexamerous (rarely pentamerous ?); brac- 
teoles glumaceous, ovate or lanceolate, acutely acuminate, glabrous, 
€xceeding the cleft calyx-limb; sometimes some of the inner 
racteoles are subfoliaceous. Calyx-lobes rounded, usually 8-7 ; limb 
about, in, long, glabrous. Corolla fugacious ; tube slender, fannel- 
shaped above ; limb 2-1 in. diam., lobes 4-3 in. long, oval. Anthers 
fixed by the middle, half included, subsessile, } in. long. Style 
shortly exserted. Berry shortly ellipsoidal, 3 in. long, white. 
Upper Guinea. Niger Expedition, at Onitsha, Barter! Old Calabar, abundant, 
ev. W. C. Thomson! 
Lower Guinea. Angola, Golungo Alto, sparingly in very dense thickets near 
1855 ne? at the base of Serra de Alto Queta, in flower at the end of October, 
» Yelwitsch ! in dense woods, Serra de Alto Queta, in young fruit at the end of 
ovember, 1855, Welwitsch ! 
P 13. ©, racemosa, Lour. Fl. Cochin. p. 145 (1790), non Rutz et 
“von (1799.) A much-branched little tree, 4 feet high; branches 
iffuse, terete. Leaves opposite, ovate-lanceolate, scattered with 
numerous tubercles, scabrous; petioles short. Flowers subterminal ; 
noctnios erect, brachiate ; common peduncle long, 4-sided, the partial 
rel shorter, terete, opposite or whorled. Berries subglobose, small, 
Sek Watery, 2-seeded; seeds hemispherical.—C. ramosa, Roem. et 
ult. Syst. Veg. i. p. 198; OC. mozambicana, DC. Prodr. iv. p. 500. 
Septens nm: Distr. Mozambique Island, Loureiro, in young fruit from July to 
have seen no specimen of this species. The seeds are used for coffee. 
8. PSILANTHUS, Hook. f. in Benth. ot Hook.f. Gen. Pl. ii. p. 115. 
daene, x-tube short, turbinate or ovoid; limb shortly cup-shaped, 
folian = teeth ovate, accrescent, at length elongated, persistent, sub- 
el cous. Corolla salver-shaped, membranous ; tube very sleuder, 
ngated ; throat naked ; limb spreading, 5-4-partite, segments oval 
