176 RUBIACEAE. | Morinda. 
nted. The corolla is sometimes slit to near the base, in which case the stamens 
anes with a very low attachment. Gray refers to this species the Myonima umbellata 
of Hk. & Arn., 1. ec. p. 86, while Sisasiatiy believes he has identified it with Straussia 
Mariniana. 
6. COFFEA, L. 
Calyx-limb truncate, toothed or lobed, = glandular inside, persisting. 
Corolla salver- or funnel-shaped, with 5 or 4 lobes which are contorte 
in the bud. Anthers 5 or 4, on short fa bei or sessile in the throat 
of the corolla, affixed near the base, a at last recurved or twisted. 
Style glabrous, with 2 linear branches Ovary 2-celled, with 1 amphi- 
thin, lining the sulcus of the albumen. Embryo curved, near the base 
and back of the horny albumen, the cotyledons cordate foliaceous, the 
inferior radicle terete. — Giebieds shrubs with terete branches. Stipules 
one on each side. Flowers in axillary clusters, white. 
About 20 species, natives of tropical Asia, Africa and the Mascaren Islands. 
- Arabica, ZL. — DC. Prod. IV, 499. — A small tree. Leaves 
elliptic: or ovato-oblong, acuminate, glabrous, shining, chartaceous. 
Stipules triangular, mucronate, joining within the petioles, persistent. 
Flowers clustered on short pedicels. Corolla deeply 5-lobed, with a smooth 
throat. Anthers and style exserted. Berries ovoid, flesh 
y, re 
Well naturalized in ods of Kona, Hawaii, and elsewhere. Iis native country 
is Abyssinia with the adjoining gies of the age 
The coffee tree was 
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lava soil of Kon , Hawaii, octet 
to an wivaton of 3000— 
7. MORINDA, L. 
at the base in a small head. Calyx-limb short, scarcely 
be cylindrical, or widening at the top, usually short, 
rarely 3, valvate in the bud. Anthers enclosed in 
Flowers united at 
toothed. Corolla-tube 
the lobes 5 or 4, or 
