Coffea. | LXXV. RUBIACEX. (J. D. Hooker.) 155 
glabrous; teeth erect, triangular. Corolla j; in. yellowish; lobes short. Style short, arms 
linear, Fruit } in. diam., smooth ; calyx-teeth persistent. Seeds orbicular, ventrally 
concave.—The specimens seen of Lachnostoma triflorum are imperfect, and have smaller 
leaves than this, and the corolla is less hairy. Coffea densiflora, Blume, of Java and 
Sumatra, is evidently allied, but the description and our specimens are insufficient. 
6. C. Jenkinsii, Hook. f.; glabrous, leaves elliptic-laneeolate caudate- 
acuminate, base acute, nerves 5-6 pair, calyx-teeth 4, corolla-tube longer than 
the lobes, mouth glabrate, lobes acute, fruit ellipsoid. 
East Mrs., alt. 83-4000 ft., Jenkins, Griffith (Kew Distrib. 3015). 
Closely allied to C. khasiana, but almost entirely glabrous, the young shoots only 
puberulous, the leaves are narrower with fewer stronger nerves, the flowers are rather 
larger and the fruit and seeds quite different, the former being ellipsoid 4 in. long, 
and the latter plano-convex.—This approaches C. salicifolia, Miquel, of Java. It is 
remarkable that no Coffea has been collected in the Malay Peninsula, though such 
near allies of this and C. kkasiana inhabit Sumatra and Java. 
Trier XII. MORINDIEZE. 
69. MORINDA, Linn. 
Erect or climbing shrubs or trees, branches terete or 4-gonous. Leaves op- 
posite, rarely in threes; stipules connate, sheathing. Flowers in axillary or 
terminal simple panicled or umbellate peduncled heads, white, more or less con- 
nate by the calyces. Calyx-tube short ; limb short or 0.  Corolla-tube short or 
long; lobes 4-7, coriaceous, valvate in bud. Stamens 4-7, filaments short ; 
anthers linear or oblong. Ovary 2- or spuriously 4-celled ; style slender, branches 
long or short ; ovules solitary, ascending from towards the base of the septum 
in each cell. Fruit compressed, formed of the succulent enlarged calyces en- 
closing many cartilaginous or bony l-seeded pyrenes, which sometimes cohere 
into a 2-4-celled putamen; rarely of nearly free drupes. Seeds obovoid or reni- 
form, testa membranous, albumen fleshy or horny ; embryo terete, radicle inferior. 
—DisrRim. Species about 40, all tropical. 
* Corolla 5-7-merous, tube long. 
1 M. citrifolia, Linn.; DC. Prodr. iv. 446; glabrous, leaves usually 
6-10 in. broadly elliptic acuminate acute or obtuse shining, peduncles solitary 
leaf-opposed rarely 2-3-nate at the ends of the branches, flowers 5-merous, fruit 
of many drupes coalescent into a fleshy globose or ovoid head 1 in. diam. 
Cultivated and wild? throughout the hotter parts of India and Ceylon.— DISTRIB. 
Malay Archipelago, Australia, Pacific Islands. 
A small tree; trunk straight, bark smooth, branches obtusely 4-angled. Leaves 
shining, short-petioled, one of the pair next the peduncle often suppressed; stipules 
large, broadly oblong or semi-lunar, entire or 2-3-fid, glabrous. Peduncles usually in 
the axils of every other pair of leaves, 1 in. long or more. Calyx-limb truncate. Co- 
rolla white, tube 4 in. or less; lobes glabrous, fusiform in bud, throat pubescent. 
Anthers partly exserted. Head of fruit yellowish.—I have united M. citrifolia and 
bracteata, as this seems to meet the views of most Indian botanists, though Roxburgh, 
who alone seems to have studied these Morindas, keeps them apart, regarding M. 
bracteata as a native (of Ganjam, in Orissa). lle, however, gives us other distinctive 
characters of the latter than the foliaceous calyx-lobes and included anthers (a 
sexual character). Thwaites regards M. bracteata as both wild and cultivated in 
‘Ceylon, and finds the presence of bracts inconstant. Both are regarded by others as 
cultivated forms of M. tinctoria, which, however, looks different. Rheede, whose 
figures Roxburgh quotes for citrifolia, represents the flower of the upper head as with 
calycine lobes. 
