14. Coffea. ] U.BTJBIACEM. [ 16. Vanguebia. 



a small undershrub in the open. Fls. with the new leaves ApriUMay . Fr. 

 Feby.'April. Dec. Feby.-April. 



L. pubescent on the ribs beneath (at least when young). Base con- 

 tracted. Petiole £-£". Fls. 2-3 in a terminal fascicle sessile. Calyx-limb 

 obsolete or of several minute glandular teeth. Anthers slightly exserted, 

 eessile, £" long, apiculate. Style short, stigma 2-fid. 



2. Carabica, L- The Coffee is cultivated on the Ranchi 

 plateau. 



The leaves are 4-6" long, bif arioua shining and the corolla 

 funnel-shaped. 



15. Canthium, Lamk, 



1. C. didymum, Boxb. Jur, K. f Garbha gojha, 8. 



A small tree with spreading or drooping branchlets flattened 

 above, bifarious dark-green ovate or lanceolate-ovate acumin- 

 ate leaves 4-6" by 2|-3" and 'greenish flowers in very dense 

 shortly-peduncled corymbose cymes. Fr, black globose J r 

 diam. with two pyrenes. 



A very common tree along the edges of dry watercourses, etc., in 

 Singbhum ; Manbhum ; Santal Parganahs j Sirguja. Wood . 



Fls. Feby. -April. Fr. May. Evergreen. 



L. dark-green shining above pale beneath with 4 prs. distinct see. n. 

 with large axillary glands. Petiole £''. Corymbs pubescent (always ?) 

 peduncle with 2 connate bracts. Pedicels J-^ 7 in fruit. Fls. 5-merous. 

 Calyx truncate or minutely toothed. Corolla %' diam. rotate with cam- 

 panulate tube woolly within and lanceolate lobes. St. on the throat 

 Style long, stigma mitriform. Ovary 2-celled. Stonea slightly rugose. 



The fruit is eaten. 



The Chota Nagpur variety appears to differ from the type in some of 

 the leaves having glandular axils, and in the fruit (vide F.B.I.) not being 

 didymous. 



16. Vangncria, Jnss. 



1- V. spinosa, Boxb. Serali, Kataiara, K. ; Boi-bindi; 8, 

 Monphal, Kharw. ; Mainphal, H. 



A small tree or shrub, often with long straight spines, 

 ovate ell. or oblong acute or acuminate leaves 3-4'' rarely 



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