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for I only detected a few, scattered singly here and there on a 

 large leafy branch, many large branches being without any. 



II. I sought diligently throughout several days for the 

 male plant, but was unsuccessful. Is it likely that the great 

 paucity of its fruit, very unusual in the genus, was owing to 

 the scarcity of male specimens ? 



3. C. coffcBoides, sp. nov. 



A small tree, slender, erect, 12ft. -15ft. high, perfectly 

 glabrous throughout, bark smooth light-grey ; much branched ; 

 branchlets erect, scarcely cylindrical, stout, drooping in fruit. 

 Leaves decussate, distant sub-2in. apart on main branches, 

 coriaceo-membranous (membranous and flaccid when young), 

 oblong inclining to obovate-lanceolate, tips sub-acute, slightly 

 mucronate, recurved, tapering to petiole ; margins entire, but 

 slightly and closely serrulate (sub Icnte), generally of two sizes 

 — (1) large, on main branches, 3^in.-4Jin. long, 2in. broad, 

 petioles iin., stoutish ; (2) smaller, on axillary branchlets ; 

 darkish-green above, a little glossy, paler and dull below ; 

 primary veins diagonal, prominent below ; venules obsoletely 

 reticulate. Stipules large, deltoid -acuminate, -^in. long ; tips 

 thickened, hard, acute, black. Flowers : male, peduncles axil- 

 lary, the middle one fin. long ; flowers sessile in glomerate 

 heads, 20 and upwards, with several small leaflets interspersed, 

 and narrow oblong bracts at base, their margins minutely 

 ciliolate; calyx a small shallow circular cup, its margin nearly 

 even; corolla pale-green, narrow campanulate, 3 lines long, 

 4- (sometiixies 3-) lobed ; lobes one-third length of corolla, 

 ovate, tips sub-acute, recurved ; stamens 4 (but only 3 in 3- 

 lobed corolla), slender, exserted, pendulous, flexuous, thickened 

 at top, 3-4 lines long, minutely pilose ; anthers narrow oblong, 

 sub-acute, 2 lines long, deeply grooved, largely sagittate : 

 fern., clustered, decussately arranged on short axillary 

 branchlets or peduncles, lin. long, forming dense, crowded, 

 sub-glomerate heads — 20-40 (or more) together ; peduncles 

 compressed, with short opposite branchlets or sub-peduncles, 

 each bearing 5-9 sessile flowers, and usually with 1 minute 

 leaf at its base, the main peduncle often continued and pro- 

 duced at top into a leafy branchlet ; calyx ; corolla very 

 small, yellowish-white, -^o^yi. long, somewhat tubular, broadest 

 at top, 4- (sometimes 3-) lobed ; lobes very short, obtuse, 

 slightly recurved, their margins dark pink-red, stigmas 2 

 (rarely 3), short, sub 3-lineslong, erect, white, stoutish, obtuse. 

 Drupe glossy, 3-3i lines long, broadly ovoid, sub-compressed, 

 sides furrow^ed, tip obtuse, sub-truncate ; when quite ripe 

 oblong-ovoid, turgid, juicy, vermilion. Seeds narrow ovoid- 

 acuniinate, 3 lines long, slightly curved, somewhat rugulose, 

 dull dirty- white. 



