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Abyssinia is at any rate native now ina semi-wild form to the better 
forested regions of the Uganda Protectorate, its berries producing 
coitee of excellent flavour. 
ain in vol. ii, p. 674, speaking of the Bantu people, _ Harry 
“the common coffee of the country, collected from bushes 20 ft. 
high in a deserted native garden,” and other specimens grown in 
the Entebbe Botanic Gardens from a seedling sent from Kew in 
1901. These plants are practically identical, meet that the ones 
from the native garden have smaller leaves, as might be expected 
from a neglected bush, and may without doubt be referred to 
C. robusta, Linden : 
It seems clear therefore that the wild coffee of Uganda which is 
found in native he is oe ge is Coffea robusta, Linden, a 
species which as De n has already suggested may be 
merely a vaniely or teas race of. C. nine Nei Pierre, which was 
originally described from specimens from the oon. 
To sum up therefore we have the following synonym 
Coffea arabica, var. Stuhlmannii, Froehner = aah weabeit: 
Zimmermann = C. robusta, eaenad ae C; Phere ary Pierre, forma. 
e examination of the t e specimen of Hemileia Woodii on 
leaves of supposed Coffea Ibo collected by Perrot near Lindi in 
German East Africa,* has revealed the fact that the diseased 
leaves do not belong to that oe and in fact do not belong to 
an a species of coffee known a 
leaves is anything but Hemileia vastatriz. ‘The fungus is in a 
very advanced state, the pustules consisting cs ia ae. of 
germinated evar ay the which do not differ H. vastatrix 
nd H. Woodii dried 
‘Neither ZH. ec nor H. Woodii rh its attacks to any 
one genus of Rubiace At Kew H. vastatrix is represented only 
on species of Coffea, | though there are pte of its occurrence 
‘ Pic Zeitschr. ~~ Tr. lLandw. i, 1897, p. 192, Kew Bull., 1906, 
