Both the natives and French traders at Freetown say that 
it has a superior flavour, and prefer it to the Liberian. In 
fact, latterly a certain amount has been exported to a 
wholesale French dealer, who is said to sell it at 4 frs. 50 
cents. a lb. as ‘best Mocha.’ Considering that it is 
worth at Freetown 6d. a Ib. this should be a fairly pro- 
fitable trade, and a trial shipment should be made by the 
English merchants to find out exactly what the market 
value in Liverpool would be. The plant appears to thrive 
best in the higher hills about Sierra Leone on gneissose or 
granitic soil, and can be grown at from 500 to 2000 ft.” 
Mr. Scott Elliott’s specimens are of a very slender 
state, with lanceolate leaves only two to two and a half 
inches long by one-third of an inch to two-thirds of an 
inch broad, very different from that here represented, and 
these together favour the opinion entertained by Bentham, 
that both are forms of C. arabica, Linn. 
Coffea stenophylla was raised at the Royal Gardens, Kew, 
from seeds sent in May, 1894, by Sir W. H. Quayle Jones, 
late Chief Justice of the West African Settlements, and 
acting Governor of Sierra Leone, and the plant here figured 
was raised therefrom, and flowered as early as September, 
1895, in a tropical house. Supplies of the seed have been 
distributed from Kew to the Botanical Gardens of India 
and the Colonies, from whence, if the plant resists the 
coffee disease, and proves to be as excellent a coffee as 
the French merchants declare it to be, good results may 
be expected. 
 Deser.—An evergreen shrub, or small tree, up to twenty 
ft. high, perfectly glabrous, with brownish bark, and © 
green, terete branches; youngest leaf-shoots and leaycs _ 
pink. Leaves four to six inches long by one to one 
and a half inches broad, shortly petioled, ovate- or 
oblong-lanceolate or oblanceolate, obtusely caudate-acumi- 
nate, bright green and glossy, paler beneath; nerves six 
to ten pairs, very slender, with small vlands at the axils, 
which are white, and perforated in the upper surface, 
green on the under; stipules triangular-ovate, acuminate. 
Flowers very shortly peduncled, solitary or 3-nate, ter- 
minal and axillary, one to one and a half inch across the 
corolla-lobes; bracts linear, caducous. Calyx limb erose. 
Corolla-tube about a third of an inch long, lobes 6-10, 
