Tas. 6749. 
COFFEA TRAVANCORENSIS. 
Native of Southern India and Ceylon. 
Nat. Ord. Rustacem.—Tribe IxoRExz. 
Genus Corrga, Linn.; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. vol. ii. p. 114.) 
Corrga travancorensis ; frutex glaber, foliosus, foliis subsessilibus ellipticis ovatis 
lanceolatisve subacutis v. obtusis rarius obtuse- v. acute caudato-acuminatis 
membranaceis v. tenniter coriaceis, stipulis brevissimis triangularibus, floribus 
foliis coetaneis 3-4-nis 5-meris, calycis tubo brevi, limbo truncato, corolla tubo 
gracili }-pollicari, limbi lobis brevioribus ovatis obtusis, fructu late didymo. 
C, travancorensis, Wight et Arn, Prodr. p. 434; Wall. Cat. n. 6245; Thwaites 
Enum. Pl. Zeyl. p. 154; Hook.f. Fl. Brit. Ind. vol. iii. p. 154, 
: C. triflora, Moon Cat. Pl. Ceyl. p. 15. 
A small South Indian species of Coffea, allied to the 
C. bengalensis (tab, 4917), but with a very much smaller 
flower and different calyx, more resembling in these 
respects the true Coffea, C. arabica (tab. 1303), which has 
larger leaves and exserted stamens and style. It is a very 
variable plant, especially in the foliage, the leaves in some 
specimens from Malabar being lanceolate, very membranous, 
and much more acuminate. I am not aware that the seed 
has been used as coffee, as that of O. bengalensis has been, 
though it is very probable that owing to its small size it 
would hardly be worth cultivation on an extensive scale. 
The flowers are sweet-scented, as in the majority of the 
genus. : 
The plant was raised from seed received from Colonel 
Beddome, and flowered in the Royal Gardens in August of 
last. year. The flowers are probably dimorphic, judging 
from the reduced style and imperfect stigma of the specimen 
here figured. , 
Duscr. A bushy shrub, three to six feet high, copiously 
leafy. Branches slender, obscurely quadrangular, tips 
obscurely puberulous, bark brown. Leaves three to four 
inches long, very variable in shape from broadly ovate to 
APRIL Ist, 1884, 
