Coffea.^ LXX. RUBIACEyK (HlfiKN). l85 



the small subtruncate or denticulate not obsolete calyx-limb. Corolla- 

 tube ^ in. long ; lobes oval, obtuse, ^ in. long. Anthers 5 (or rarely 

 4?), sessile, inserted at the back at or rather above the middle, mostly 

 included, ^J in. long. 



Upper Guinea. Abbeokuta. on rocks, Barter / 



12. C. jasminoides, Weliv. ex Hiern in Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond.y 

 ser. ii., i. p. 175. A trailing, much branched, deciduous, undershrub 

 of 2-5 feet. Branches terete, glabrescent, elongated, spreading ; leafy 

 shoots pubescent, short. Leaves oval, shortly pointed or acuminate, 

 mucronulate, rounded at the base or nearly so, hispidulous with scat- 

 tered short hairs especially on the margins and veins, chartaceous, 

 sometimes subverticillate in fours by the approximation pf the upper 

 internodes, 1-3 by f-l^ in. ; lateral veins about o pairs, slender ; petiole 

 T2—Q in-, pubescent ; stipules ovate, acuminate-apiculate, imbricating, 

 setaceus-apiculate, about ^^ in. long. Flowers precocious, white, out- 

 side often rose-red, ranging up to 1^ in. long when expanded, fragrant, 

 solitary or few together, lateral, terminating incipient lateral shoots, 

 subsessile, heptamerous or hexamerous (rarely pentamerons ?) ; brac- 

 teoles glumaceous, ovate or lanceolate, acutely acuminate, glabrous, 

 exceeding the cleft calyx-limb ; sometimes some of the inner 

 bracteoles are subfoliaceous. Calyx-lobes rounded, usually 8-7 ; limb 

 about ^\ in. long, glabrous. Corolla fugacious ; tube slender, funnel- 

 shaped above ; limb J-1 in. diam., lofjes ^— g in. long, oval. Anthers 

 fixed by the middle, half included, subsessile, ^ in, long. Style 

 shortly exserted. Berry shortly ellipsoidal, J in. long, white. 



Upper Guinea. Niger Expedition, at Onitsha, J5ar^er.' Old Calabar, abundant, 

 jRev. W. C. Thomson! 



Zfower Guinea. Angola, Golungo Alto, sparingly in very dense thickets near 

 Cumilungo at the base of Serra de Alto Queta, in flower at the end of October, 

 1855, Welwitsch! in dense woods, Serra de Alto Queta, in young fruit at the end of 

 November, 1855, Welwitschf 



13. C. racemosa, Lour. Fl. Gochin. p. 145 (1790), Tum Ruiz et 

 Pavon (1799.) A much-branched little tree, 4 feet high ; branches 

 diffuse, terete. Leaves opposite, ovate-lanceolate, scattered with 

 numerous tubercles, scabrous ; petioles short. Flowers subterminal ; 

 racemes erect, brachiate ; common peduncle long, 4-sided, the partial 

 ones shorter, terete, opposite or whorled. Berries subglobose, small, 

 red, watery, 2-seeded; seeds hemispherical. — C. roumosa^ Roem. et 

 Schult. Syst. Veg. i. p. 198 ; G. mozamhicana, DC. Prodr, iv. p. 500. 



Mozamb. Distr. Mozambique Island, Loureiro, in young fruit from July to 

 September. 



I have seen no specimen of this species. The seeds are used for coflFee. 



58. PSILANTHUS, Hook. f. in Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. PI. ii. p. 115. 



Calyx-tube short, turbinate or ovoid ; Hmb shortly cup-shaped, 

 dentate ; teeth ovate, accrescent, at length elongated, persistent, sub- 

 foliaceous. Corolla salver-shaped, membranous ; tube very slender, 

 elongated; throat naked; limb spreading, 5 -4- partite, segments oval 



