Correa. RUBIACEA. : 435 
XXVII. COFFEA. Linn.; Gaertn. fr. 1. t. 25; Lam. il. t. 160. 
Calyx-tube ovate, globose or turbinate ; limb small, 4—5-toothed. Corolla 
tubular, infundibuliform ; limb spreading, 4-5 partite, the lobes oblong: eesti- 
vation twisted. Stamens 4-5, inserted on the summit or middle of the tube, 
exserted or included. Style bifid at the apex, the lobes rarely cohering. 
Berry umbilicated, naked or crowned with the calyx-limb, containing two 
somewhat parchment-like 1-seeded nuts. Seed conyex on the outer side, 
flat and marked with a longitudinal furrow on the inner. Embryo erect in a 
horny albumen ; radicle terete, obtuse ; cotyledons foliaceous.—Trees or 
shrubs. Leaves opposite. . Stipules interpetiolar. 
This character is adopted from De Candolle, except what we have added relative- 
to the xstivation of the corolla: we fear it is not sufficient to distinguish the genus 
from several others ; and moreover it is exceedingly doubtful that several species, of 
which the fruit is unknown, do accord with it : the anthers in all the specimens we 
have seen are long-linear. 
* 1389. (1) C. Arabica (Linn.:) stipules on both sides solitary, entire: 
leaves oblong-ovate, acuminated, glabrous: peduncles axillary, short, aggre- 
gated: calyx-limb not increasing after flowering: corolla 5-cleft, glabrous in 
the throat: anthers linear, entirely exserted: style much exserted : stigma bi- 
partite, lobes linear: berry ovate-—DC. prod. 4. p. 499 ; Spr. syst. 1. p. 755 ; 
Roxb. fl. Ind. 1. p. 539; (ed. Wail.) 2. p. 193; Wail.! L.n.6243; Wight! 
cat. n. 1355.— Pluk. t. 243. f. 1. 
1340. (2) C. Benghalensis (Roxb.:) shrubby and bushy: leaves oblong or 
ovate, obtuse-pointed, glabrous on both sides or liairy on the nerves under- 
neath ; stipules subulate: flowers somewhat sessile, usually 1-3 (sometimes 
more) together: limb of the calyx almost entire, not increasing after flower-. 
ing : corolla 5-cleft, glabrous within, segments oval-oblong : anthers attached 
by the middle of their back to the tube of the corolla, linear, with the point 
curved and alone exserted : style about half the length of the corolla: stigma. 
bipartite, lobes linear: berry shortly ovoid.— Roab. fl. Ind. 1. p. 540 ; (ed. 
Wall.) 2. p. 194; in E. I. C. mus. tab. 1031; Roth, nov. sp. p. 148; DC. 
prod. 4. p 499 ; Spr. syst. 1. p. 755 ; Wall. L. n. 6244 ; Wight! cat. n. 1356. 
We have great doubts if this and the two next be not varieties of one spe- 
cies: in Roxburgh's drawing, from cultivated speeimens, some of the leaves 
are represented scarcely above an inch long, while in C. Wightiana they are 
occasionally as large, although usually not above half an inch in length ; C. 
Travancorensis is intermediate: the three agree in all the remarkable or es- 
sential points, the long tube to the corolla, and included stamens attac’ ed by 
the middle of their back. Perhaps none of them sie. d to the present ge- 
nus: in the only ripe berry (in C. Travancorensis) which we have seen, we 
could find no trace of the parchment-like nut; the seed lay loose in the in- 
terior of each cell, so that if the nut were present it must have been incorpo- 
rated with the pericarp : as, however, too much injury has been already done 
to the science by naming or constituting species and genera from isolated 9r 
imperfect materials, we prefer leaving them for the present n Coffea. 
1341. (3) C. Travancorensis (herb. Madr.:) hrubby and bushy: leaves 
ovate or oblong, bluntly or shortly pointed, glabrous on both sides: stipules 
short-roundish, with a cuspidate point: flowers 3-4, nearly sessile on very 
short axillary somewhat abortive leafless branchlets: limb of the calyx almost 
quite entire, not increasing after ide corolla 5-cleft, glabrous within, 
ents obovate or cuneate oblong: anthers attached by the middle of their 
back to the tube of the corolla, linear, with the pP curved and. 
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