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154 LXXV. RUBIACEZ. (J. D. Hooker.) [ Coffea. 
Tnorrcar HIMALAYA, from Kumaon to Mishmi, ascending to 3000 ft. BENGAL, 
Assam, SILHET, CHITTAGONG, and Tenasserim.—Disrrin. Siam, Java. 
A shrub with horizontal slender branches. Leaves deciduous, sometimes 5 by 3 
in., but usually much smaller, membranous, green when dry, nerves beneath some- 
what hairy, base rounded or acute, always shortly contracted into the short petiole; 
stipules subulate. Flowers axillary, pure white, fragrant, 1-1} in. diam. ; corolla- 
lobes obovate-oblong. ^ Calyz-limb with many glandular teeth. Fruit À in. long, 
didymous when 2-seeded, “ black, and size of a small eherry," Roxb. 
2. C. Wightiana, JV. $ A. Prodr. 420; glabrous, leaves small subsessile 
ovate obtuse glabrous or woolly in the nerve-axils beneath, flowers subsolitary 
5-merous appearing before the leaves, ealyx-limb many-toothed, corolla-tube 3 
in., fruit small broadly didymous. Wight Ie. t. 1598; Wall. Cat. 6246; Thw. 
Enum. 154, 
Western PrxiNsULA; in arid places from Kurg to Travancore, Wight, Ze, Cey- 
LON ; in hot drier parts of the island. 
A much branched almost spinescent shrub, with slender divaricate branches. 
Leaves 3-15 in., rather coriaceous, pale when dry; stipules spinescent. Flowers white, 
with much narrower corolla-lobes than C. bengalensis, Fruit much broader than long, 
3 in. diam., with a deep furrow between the lobes. Thwaites and Wight & Arnott re- 
gard this as a probable variety of C. travancorensis. 
3. C. travancorensis, JV. $ A. Prodr. 455; glabrous or branches 
puberulous, leaves elliptic-lanceolate or broadly elliptic obtuse or obtusely 
caudate-acuminate, flowers 3-4-nate 5-merous appearing with the leaves, calyx- 
limb subentire or 2-3-toothed, corolla-tube $-l in., fruit broadly didymous.— 
Wall. Cat. 6245; Thw. Enum. 154. C. triflora, Moon. Cat. 15. 
WESTERN PENINSULA ; Travancore, Wight. Ceyiow~; in warm moist parts of the 
island, ascending to 3000 ft., Thwaites. 
A bush. Leaves pale yellowish when dry, 3-4 by 1-1} in., in Ceylon specimen 
very broadly orbieular-elliptie and 21 in. diam. Flowers much as in C. bengalensis, 
but smaller. Fruit broader than long, 4 in. diam, 
4. C. fragrans, Wall. iss. ; glabrous or branches puberulous, leaves 
elliptic-lanceolate obtuse or obtusely caudate-acuminate, flowers subsolitary 5- 
merous appearing with the leaves, calyx many-toothed, corolla-tube 2-1 in. 
Coffea, Wall. Cat. 8450. 
SILHET, Gomez; TENASSERIM, Helfer; Murevt, Griffith 
Very similar indeed to C. ‘ravancorensis, and perhaps a variety of it, but the leaves 
are more shining, with the nerves more raised, and the ealyx-limb, which is deeply 
cupped, is many-toothed. Fruit in Tenasserim examples 3 in, diam., broadly didy- 
mous, exactly as in C. travancorensis. 
Secr. II. Lachnostoma, Korth. (Gen.) — Calya-liinb regularly 4-toothed. 
Corolla-tube short; lobes 4, small, acute. Fyuit glabrous or ellipsoid, not didy- 
mous when 2-seeded.—F lowers very small, in small axillary cymes. 
5. C. khasiana, Mook. f.; branches aud nerves beneath puberulous, 
leaves elliptic-lanceolate caudate-acuminate, base acute, nerves 7-8 pair, calyx- 
teeth 4 acute, corolla-tube equalling the lobes, mouth villous, lobes acute, fruit 
globose.—? Lachnostoma triflorum, Korth. in Ned. Kruidk, Arch, ii, 202; Mig. 
Fl. Ind. Bat. ii. 257. Coffea, No. 6, Herb. Ind. Or. H. f. $ T. 
Kuasra and Jynrea Mrs., alt. 2-4500 ft. frequent, J. D. H. & T. T., C. B. Clarke. 
A large rambling bush or small tree; branchlets with appressed hairs.. Leaves 
Breenish when dry, 3-8 by 1-3 in., membranous, not shining, nerves very oblique; 
petiole 4 in.; stipules triangular, cusp long slender. Flowers in very short branched 
pubescent cymes; pedicels very short with a cup of connate bracteoles, Calyx 
