154 LXXV. BUBIACEJE. (J. D. Hooker.) [Coffea. 



TROPICAL HIMALAYA, from Kumaon to Mishmi, ascending to 3000 ft. BENGAL, 

 ASSAM, SILHET, CHITTAQONG, and TENASSERIM. DISTRIB. Siam, Java. 



A shrub with horizontal slender branches. Leaves deciduous, sometimes 5 by 3 

 in., but usually much smaller, membranous, green when dry, nerves beneath some- 

 what hairy, base rounded or acute, always shortly contracted into the short petiole ; 

 stipules subulate. Flowers axillary, pure white, fragrant, 1-1| in. diam. ; corolla- 

 lobes obovate-oblong. Calyx-limb with many glandular teeth. Fruit % in. long, 

 didymous when 2-seeded, " black, and size of a small cherry," Roxb. 



2. C. Wigrhtiana, W. fy A. Prodr. 436 ; glabrous, leaves small subsessile 

 ovate obtuse glabrous or woolly in the nerve-axils beneath, flowers subsolitary 

 5-rnerous appearing before the leaves, calyx-limb man v- toothed, corolla-tube ^ 

 in., fruit small broadly didymous. Wight Ic. t. 1598 ;" Wall. Cat. G24G ; Thw. 

 Enum. 154. 



WESTERN PENINSULA; in arid places from Ivurg to T-ravaucore, Wight, &c. CEY- 

 LON ; in hot drier parts of the island. 



A much branched almost spinescent shrub, with slender divaricate branches. 

 Leaves %-l\ in., rather coriaceous, pale when dry; stipules spinescent. Flowers white, 

 with much narrower corolla-lobes than C. bengale.nsis. Fruit much broader than long, 

 5- in. diam., with a deep furrow between the lobes. Thwaites and Wight & Arnott re- 

 gard this as a probable variety of C. travancorensis. 



3. C. travancorensis, W. A. Prodr. 435; glabrous or brandies 

 puberulous, leaves elliptic-lanceolate or broadly elliptic obtuse or obtusely 

 caudate-acuminate, flowers 3- 4-nate 5-nierous appearing with the leaves, calyx- 

 limb subentire or 2-3-toothed, corolla-tube -1 in., fruit broadly didymous. 

 Wall. Cat. 6245 ; Thw. E^um. 154. C. trinora, Moon. Cat. 15. 



WESTERN PENINSULA ; Travancore, Wight. CEYLON ; in warm moist parts of the 

 island, ascending to 3000 ft., Thwaites. 



A bush. Leaves pale yellowish when dry, 3-4 by 1-1^ in., in Ceylon specimen 

 very broadly orbicular-elliptic and 2 in. diam. Floiuers much as in C. bcngalensis, 

 but smaller. Fruit broader than long, ^ in. diam. 



4. C. fragrans, Wall. mss. ; glabrous or branches puberulous, leaves 

 elliptic-lanceolate obtuse or obtusely caudate-acuminate, flowers subsolitary 5- 

 rnerous appearing with the leaves, calyx many-toothed, corolla-tube f-1 in. 

 Coffea, Wall. Cat. 8450. 



SILHET, Gomez ; TENASSERIM, Heifer ; MERGUI, Griffith. 



Yerj similar indeed to C. travancorensis, and perhaps a variety of it, but the leaves 

 arc more shining, with the nerves more raised, and the calyx-limb, which is deeply 

 cupped, is many-toothed. Fruit in Tenasserim examples 3- in. diam., broadly didy- 

 mous, exactly as in C. travancorensis. 



SECT. II. Xiachnostoma, Korth. (Gen.) Calyx-limb regularly 4-toothed. 

 Corolla-tube short ; lobes 4, small, acute. Fruit glabrous or ellipsoid, not didy- 

 mous when 2-seeded. Flowers very small, in small axillary cynies. 



5. C. khasiana, Hook. f. ; branches and nerves beneath puberulous, 

 leaves elliptic-lanceolate caudate-acuminate, base acute, nerves 7-S pair, calyx- 

 teeth 4 acute, corolla-tube equalling the lobes, mouth villous, lobe^ acute, fruit 

 globose. ? Lachnostoma triflorum, Korth. in Ned. Kruidk. Arch, ii, 202 ; Miq. 

 Fl. 2nd. Bat. ii. 257. Coffea, No. 6, Herb. Ind. Or. II. f. $ T. 



KHASIA and JYNTEA MTS., alt. 2-4500 ft. frequent, J. D. H. & T. T., C. B. Clarice. 



A large rambling bush or small tree; branchlets with appressed hairs. Leaves 

 greenish when dry, 3-8 by 1-3 in., membranous, not shining, nerves very oMique; 

 petiole % in. ; stipules triangular, cusp long slender. Flowers in very short branched 

 pubescent cymes; pedicels very short with a cup of connate -bracteoles. Calyx 



