Coffea.] Lxx. RUBiACEa: (hiekn). 181 



before expansion, about half as long after expansion, subsessile or very 

 shortly pedicellate, 2-9 or more together in very short axillary or late- 

 ral bracteolate clusters ; bracteoles ovate, the inner ones connate at the 

 base of the pedicels, falling short of the shallow subtruncate or obtusely 

 5-denticulate calyx-limb. Corolla white ; lobes oval, obtuse or mucro- 

 nulate,equallingor exceeding the tube, spreading. Anthers rather shorter 

 than the corolla-lobes, wholly exserted, fixed rather below the middle to 

 the filaments, which are about half as long. Disk glabrous. Style about 

 equalling the unexpanded flower, bifid ; lobes linear, narrower towards 

 the tip. Berry ellipsoidal, |-^ in. long, at first green, then rod, and at 

 length blue-black. Seeds from ^ to nearly ^ in. long. — G. laurifolia, Sa- 

 lisb. Prodr. Stirp. Hort. Chapel Allert. p. 62 (1796), non H. B. et K. 



Upper Guinea. Fernando Po, Barter ! {cultivated). 



Wile Iiand. Abyssinia, spontaneous and cultivated, Schimpcr ! Q. Dillon et Petit! 

 Ferret et Galinier ; Karague, a market produce, and Victoria Nyanza, Speke and Grant. 



iMOwer Guinea. Angola, teste Welwitsch! Apontamentos, p. 549 (1859), in 

 Golung Alto, indigenous and cultivated. 



Mozamb. Slstr. Mozambique coast especially opposite the Querimba Islands, 

 wild and cultivated, Peters, Jide Klotsch in Peters Mossamb. 291. 



Cultivated also in Arabia (where it is said to l^e indigenous), in Natal, and 

 throughout tropical India and America. It is probable that it is a true native of 

 Abyssinia. 



Var. leucocarpa, Hiern in Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond., Ser. ii., i. p. 171. A glabrous 

 shrub. Branches terete, somewhat compressed towards the extremities. Leaves 

 elliptic-oblong, obtusely acuminate, wedge-shaped at the base, thinly coriaceous, 3-6 

 by 1-2 in. ; lateral veins about 6-7 pairs, inconspicuous, not glandular in the axils ; 

 petiole |-^ in. ; stipules sheathing at the base, subtruncate, subapieulate, ^ in. long, 

 Flowers few together in short axillary clusters. Bracteoles ovate, falling short of 

 the fruiting pedicel by about ~-^ in. Berries white, solitar}' or 2 together, roundly 

 spheroidal, | long, smooth. Seeds | in. long. 



X7pper Guinea. Sierra Leone, Tk. Vogel ! 



2. C. liberica, Bull ex Hiern in Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond., ser. ii., 

 i. p. 171, t. 24. A glabrous glossy shrub. Branches smooth, spreading, 

 subterete, somewhat compressed towards the extremities. Leaves 

 elliptic-obovate, shortly acuminate, wedge-shaped or obtusely narrowed 

 at the base, somewhat undulated, thinly coriaceous, 4^6-12 by 

 l^-2-4| in. ; lateral veins about 8-12 pairs, with glands in the axils 

 opening by a small hole beneath ; petiole |-^ in. long ; stipules broadly 

 ovate, apiculate, connate at the base, shorter than the petiole, |~^ in. 

 long. Flowers 7-6-merous, subsessile, several together, clustered, 

 axillary, 1 in. long when expanded ; bracteoles connate, calyculate, 

 depresso-deltoid, subtruncate, all shorter than the subtruncate calyx ; 

 sometimes one oval bracteole is produced above the others. Calyx-limb 

 annular, very short. Corolla- lobes 7-6, oval, obtuse, about as long as 

 the tube, spreading. Anthers 7-6, wholly exserted, ^ in. long; fila- 

 ments i in. Berry oval, | in. long or rather more, black whenripe. 

 Seed i in. or rather more. Style exserted, bifid. — C. arahica, Benth. in 

 Hook. Niger Fl. 413 (part.), non Linn. 



Upper Guinea. Sierra. Leone, Afzelius / MonroA-ia (native) and Cape Palmaa 

 (cultivated, July, 1841), Tk. Vogel! Daniell! (Sierra Leone, cultivated). 



Iiower Guinea. Golungo Alto, Welwitsch! Cazengo, ]^'elwit.^ch I indigenous 

 (in young fruit). 



