182 LXX. RUiiiACEiE (hiern). \_Goffea. 



The source of the Liberian coffee, and probably also of the Cape-Coast coffee ; it 

 is said to be far superior to C. arabica, Linn., having larger berries and a finer 

 flavour, and being at the same time more robust and productive. 



3. C. stenophylla, G. Don^ Oen. Syst. iii. p. 581. A small 

 tree of 20 feet or a shrub of 4-6 feet, glabrous, glossy. Stem 

 about 10 feet high, 13 in. diam. near the base ; bark smooth, grey. 

 Branches slender, terete, compressed towards the extremities, the 

 lower ones irregularly scattered, the upper ones opposite, brachiate, 

 leafy. Leaves elliptic-oblong or obovate, caudate-acuminate, wedge- 

 shaped at the base, subcoriaceous, somewhat undulated, 1^-5 J by 

 ^-1^ in. ; lateral veins about 7-9 pairs, inconspicuous above, marked 

 beneath with small punctured glands in the axils ; petiole tV~6 ^- ^^^S » 

 stipules apiculate from broad ovate or subtruncate connate base, about 

 equalling the petiole. Flowers |-J in. long just before expansion, 

 ^-| in. after expansion, 3-1 together, subsessile, in axillary clusters ; 

 bracteoles ovate or lanceolate- oblong, the upper ones connate below and 

 rather exceeding the small pale green subentire calyx -limb which just 

 exceeds the disk. Corolla-tube ^ in. long ; lobes 6-8, oval or oblong, 

 obtuse, T^-f in. long, spreading. Anthers wholly exserted, fixed at Jrd 

 above the base, three times the length of the filaments, ^-| in. long. 

 Style nearly equalling the unexpanded flower, bifid ; lobes narrowly 

 linear. Berry prolate-spheroidal, ^ in. long, black when ripe, shortly 

 pedicelled. Seed ^ in. long. — C. arabica^ Benth. in Hook. Niger Fl. 

 413 (part.), non Linn. 



Upper Guinea. Sierra Leone, Afzelius ! Morson ! G. Bon ! Barter ! 

 The highland coffee of Sienra Leone (Dr. Baniell). 



4. C. Zangruebarlae, Lour. Fl. Gochinch. p. 145 (1790). A 

 glabrous erect closely branched small tree, 6 feet high. Branches 

 cinereous, rather thick, short, subterete, the young ones compressed. 

 Leaves oval or obovate, obtuse or shortly pointed, wedge-shaped at the 

 base, chartaceous, 2-4 by f-2^ in. ; lateral veins about 5-6 pairs, with 

 little hairy tufts in the axils ; petiole tV~4 ^^- 5 stipules ovate api- 

 culate connate at the base, j^-^ in. long. Flowers white, axillary, 

 many together, hexamerous or heptamerous, shortly pedicellate, clus- 

 tered ; bracteoles deltoid or subtruncate, apiculate, all falling short of 

 the minute calyx-limb. Corolla-lobes 6-7, Berry red, turning black, 

 oblong, longitudinally nerved, -^-f in. long. — Amajoua africanay Spreng. 

 Syst. Veg. ii. 126. 



Mozamb. Blstr. Zanzibar coast (in woods, native), Loureiro; Mozambique, 

 Forbes! iowmro (cultivated). 



5. C. brevipes, Hiern in Trans, lArni. 8oc. Loud., ser. ii., i. 

 p. 172. A glabrous glossy shrub, 4-6 feet high. Branches slender, 

 smooth, terete, somewhat compressed at the extremities. Leaves 

 elliptic-obovate, acuminate, wedge-shaped at the base, firmly charta- 

 ceous, 4-8^ by li-2| in. ; lateral veins about 6-8 pairs ; petiole xV""6 ^^- *' 

 stipules ovate, apiculate, connate at the base, exceeding the pe- 

 tioles, |-| in. long. Flowers solitary, subsessile, axillary, ^~f in. long 



