NEILGHERRY PLANTS, 83 
by character as habit; the two bushes, even when ramifications : ig aoc 5-lobed ; lobes tee 
t tube of t throat, 
growing side by — generally Te 7 different ovate: e corolla bearded in the 
seasons. The flowering sea of the latter is the about Sloe the lee of the calyx-limb : lamnents 
autumnal months, aia of the: Dene at spring ones, exserted; anthers oblong: stigma nearly included, 
8 RIA BISULCATA ( -) shrub- short and thick, bipartite: berry ovate, 4 furrowed 
by diffuse, glabrous: leaves with 4 short petiole by drying: seed and albumen flat on the inner side, 
slightly dilated at the b oblong-lanceolate, taper- with two deep dorsal furrows and an intermediate 
ing @ ots sah base stipules triangular- acuminated, ca- broad clunt ridge_W. and A. Prod. p. 434. 
orym al, peduncled, vail, few- In woods about Ootacamund but rather mp 
caf termin 
deaed, bechstonees or with the primary rays in The leaves are = a lively green, and dry alm 
fives, with minute acute bracteas subtending the un —- in c 
COFFEA,—COFFEE, 
Calyx-tube ovate, globose or turbinate; limb small, 4-5-toothed. Corolla tubular, infundibuliform : 3 
limb spreading, 4-5 partite, the lobes oblong: zstivation 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 umbili- 
cated, naked or crowned with the calyx-limb, containing two somewhat parchment-like 1-seeded nuts. Seed 
convex onthe outer side, flat and marked with a longitudinal furrow on the inner. Embr ryo erect in a 
horny albumen; radicle terete, obtuse ; cotyledons foliaceous.—Trees or shrubs. Leaves opposite. Stipules. 
interpetiolar. 
This character is adopted from DeCandolle, except what we have added relative to the estivation 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,— 
A. Prod. p. 435 
This is an extensive genus of fine flowering shrubs including fully 50 species. It seems doubtful how- 
ever whether its limits are well defined. DeCandolle remarks the probability of its requiring to be divided, 
while Dr. Arnott in the above note doubts whether the characters are sufficient to distinguish it from several 
others. Be that as it may it seems sufficiently certain that, as regards the flora of Southern India, it is suffi- 
ciently distinct, at least if 1 am correct in referring here the two species described below, which I see no very 
obvious reason to doubt as they correspond well with one exception with the character, the exception being the _ 
clavate not bifid stigma and that I cannot consider of sufficient importance to nullify all the rest, especially on 
considering that they do sometimes cohere. Assuming then, which I think I may safely do, that both are true 
Coffeas, there can be no difficulty in distinguishing this genus from all the others ‘yet found in this part of 
India by the above generic character whether adequate or not as applied to the flora of the world. 
The genus as at present constituted occupies a very wide range—Africa, Asia, and America—both North 
and South—claim indigenous species, but all confined to the warmer regions, either actually within the tropics 
or within a’few degrees of either side. In Mexico, Brazil, and Peru they abound—there are several from 
Africa while India and her islands claim about } of the whole number. On the properties of Coffee I conceive 
it quite unnecessary to offer any remark, but it may be observed that the Coffea Arabica is the only one 
which contributes towards the support of man, and it, history informs us, has been in use as an aliment from a 
very ancient date, as records actually exist proving its use in Persia in the Sth century of the present zra, 
how much earlier it is impossible to say, and in the middle of the 16th century its use had become so far intro- 
duced into Europe that Coffee houses were established for its sale in both Paris and London, Now it has 
sone almost a necessary of life all over Europe, the Western portions of Asia, and adjoining pro- 
es of Africa, and it is much to be desired that its greater abundance in India enabled it to supersede the 
Adaaion Toddy, so generally consumed by nearly all the lower classes of Hindoos.. 
Let us hope therefore that this much to be desired result, which is already in progress, may soon be 
brought about by the activity of commercial enterprize so wee embarked in the production of Coffee. 
Correa Auprstris (R. W.) shrubby, glabrous: term: Sal joek oda: five cleft ; ~toeig much 
leaves Minndhaea. cuneate towards the base, pointed, ae eee , lanceolate, obtu anthers. 
coriaceous: peduncles axillary, confined to t the upper exserted style :. ‘scien near the base, bait: stigma. 
leaves, longer than the petioles, aggregated, forming clavate, glabrous ; berry oval 2-seeded, 
