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Coffea tetrandra, Roxb. Fl. Ind. I. 538; Wall. Cat. 6242; DC. Prod. IV. 

 499 ; Kurz For. Fl. Burma. II. 28. Buhiae, Wall. Cat. 8470. 



In all the Provinces : common. — Disteib. Burma, Khasia Hills, 

 Malay Archipelago, Ceylon. 



Besides the foregoing there is in Herb. Calcutta a single specimen (Ridley 

 2196) with flowers only in bud and no frait. This is distinguished by ovate-elliptic 

 leaves with 4 or 5 pairs of slightly curved ascending nerves, and few-flowered lax 

 panicles on filiform axillary peduncles about 1'5 in. long. 



2. Prismatomeris subsessilis, King & Gamble. A glabrous shrub : 

 young branches thinner than a goose-quill, pale, polished. Leaves 

 narrowly elliptic, the apex and base acuminate ; both sides pale-browa 

 when dry, dull, the midrib prominent, the reticulations obsolete ; main- 

 nerves 5 to 7 pairs, slender, spreading, interarching •! in. from the 

 edge; length 225 to 4'5 in.; breadth '75 to 1-35 in.; petiole -15 to '4> 

 in. ; stipules under '1 in. in length, broad, connate into a ring, each 

 2-toothed. Flowers 2 or 3, on very short pedicels, or sessile, in a termi- 

 nal fascicle. Calyx about '2 in. long, funnel-shaped, the limb wide, 

 about as long as the tube, truncate with minute acute teeth. Corolla 

 1"25 in. long, salver-shaped, the tube narrow ; the limb nearly as long as 

 the tube, divided to its base into 5 narrowly lanceolate, deflexed, coria- 

 ceous lobes. Fruit a broad smooth didymous berry, about '6 in. in diam. 

 and "5 in. long. 



Perae : Scortechini 355 ; Wray 289 ; Kmg's Collector 8071 : at ele- 

 vations of 3000 to 4500 feet. 



Differs from P. alMdiflora in its nearly sessile flowers and larger calyx, corolla 

 and fruit. 



44. Gtnochthodes, Blume. 



Climbing glabrous shrubs with slender terete branches. Leaves 

 opposite, coriaceous or sub-coriaceous ; the stipules broad, acute, deci- 

 duous. Flowers small, on short pedicels, unisexual, in axillary fascicles 

 or pedunculate heads ; bracts deciduous. Calyx with a small short 

 tube, the limb annular, truncate or 5-toothed, persistent. Corolla coria- 

 ceous with a short tube and woolly throat; the limb with 4 or 5 

 oblong-lanceolate lobes, valvate in bud, the apices inflexed. Disk broad, 

 depressed. Stamens equal in number to the corolla lobes, on short fila- 

 ments, dorsi-fixed, in the corolla tube, linear-oblong, exserted. Ovary 

 4-celled ; style of male flower entire ; of female stout, bifid. Ovules 1 

 in each cell, broad-based, attached to the inner angle of the cell. Brupe 

 globose, fleshy, with 2 to 4 dorsally compressed pyrenes. Seeds com- 

 pressed, ascending; testa membranous; embryo small, basal, radicle 

 inferior. — Distrib. 3 or 4 species, all Malayan. 



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