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trees, with branches sloping upwards very regularly at 

 about 45^ ; yellowish white flowers in nearly sessile 

 cymes of three ; and black fruits ^ inch across — not at 

 all foetid except the last. Branches when as thick as the 

 finger still smooth and green, marked by the irregular 

 warty ring-scars of the stipules ; these only on the 

 youngest parts, barely i/io inch. Petioles 1/5 inch, 

 channelled above. Blade oblong-oval rounded at the 

 base, or broadly ovate, acute or with a short apex, quite 

 glabrous on both sides, spreading or stiffly erect ; nerves 

 about six on each side, strong below and above, curving 

 forwards to meet at the apex, and joined by reticulate 

 'more or less horizontal veins. Petals yellowish-white 

 recurved, very pubescent on the inner side. Young fruit 

 green, four-angled with the calyx-teeth persistent round a 

 ^-inch circular scar at the top ; when ripe black, shin- 

 ing, with four angular stones, t. 143. Wight Ic. 1032. 



In sholas as part of the second grade of woody plants. 



Nilgiris : in and near Ootacamund and all over the downs to 

 Pykara. Pulneys : about Kodaikanal. Fyson 1447, 1745, 2440, 

 2467, -^ * 2510, 2551, 3052. Bour?ie 246, 273, 421, 557, 1364, 

 2680, 4606. 



Geu, Dist, Apparently only on these hills. 



Lasianthus coffcoides Fyson ; LXXIX 50 ; Bastard 

 Coffee. A shrub with upright undivided stem, long 

 horizontal branches and evil-smelling leaves all facing 

 upwards — much in the habit of the cultivated coffee. 



Stem single, erect. Branches slender, weak, adpres- 

 sed, pubescent. Stipules triangular, Y^ inch. Leaf-stalks 

 y^ inch, pubescent ; blades bifarious, ovate elliptic acute, 

 4 to 5 by lYi inches, glabrous and shining above, pubes- 

 cent on the nerves below ; nerves six to nine on each side, 

 the last arising on the midrib well beyond the middle. 

 Flowers three to four together, sessile on the /^-inch 

 peduncle; bracts linear i/i 2 inch. Receptacle, calyx-tube 



