Tin 747. , 
COFFEA stTENOPHYLLA. 
Native of Sierra Leone. 
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Nat. Ord. Rusracez.—Tribe [xonEz. 
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Genus Correa, Linn.; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p. 114.) 
Correa stenophylla; foliis breviter petiolatis ovato- v. oblongo-lanceolatis 
- oblanceolatisve obtuse caudato-acuminatis glaberrimis lucidis nervis 
gracilibus axillis glandulosis, stipulis triangulari-ovatis acuminatis, 
floribus axillaribus et terminalibus brevissime pedicellatis, bracteis 
linearibus, calycis margine brevissimo eroso, corolla tubo lobis 6-10 
linearibus stellatim patentibus multo breviore, staminibus 6-10  fila- 
mentis brevibus erectis, antheris elongatis lineari-subulatis baccis 
globosis. 
C. stenophylla, G. Don Gen. Syst. Gard. vol. iii. p. 581. Hiern, in Oliver, Fl. 
Trop. Afric. vol. iii. p. 182. Kew Bulletin, 1893, p. 167. 
_ C. arabica, Benth. in Hook. Niger Flora, p. 413, in part. 
Coffea stenophylla is an interesting plant, as being one 
of the two* indigenous West African species which, in 
point of commercial value, may prove a formidable rival 
of the Arabian. It was discovered by Afzelius upwards 
of acentury ago; but was not published till 1834, when G. 
Don described it from specimens collected by himself at 
Sierra Leone. It was regarded by Bentham, perhaps 
rightly, in the ‘‘ Niger Flora” as a variety of OC. arabica 
(Plate 1303). The following notice of its oecurrence in 
West Africa is extracted from the report of Mr. G. F. 
Scott Elliott, F.L.S., on the Botany of the Sierra Leone 
district traversed by the Anglo-French Boundary Commis- 
sion in 1892, issued by the Colonial Office, and reproduced 
in the Kew Bulletin l. c. 
** Coffea stenophylla, the narrow-leaved ‘ wild,’ ‘bush,’ 
or ‘native Coffee,’ is sometimes found wild in the hills, 
and is more often cultivated than the Liberian. It grows 
very freely, and appears to yield quite as much as the 
Liberian, but is somewhat longer in coming into bearing. 
* CO. liberica, Bull.; Hiern, |. ¢. 
May Ist, 1896. 
