RUBIACEJE. 



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IV. COFFEE SEKIES. 



The Coffees ^ (fig. 251-256) have regular hermaphrodite flowers. 

 The concave receptacle, enclosing the ovary, bears on its margin a 



Coffea arahica. 



Fig. 252. Long-styled flower (f). 



Fig. 251. Habit (,';,). Fig. 253. Long. sect, of flower. 



short gamosepalous calyx of five divisions generally little promi- 



^ Coffea L. Gen. n. 230.— J. Gen. 204; Mem. III. t. 160.— A. Rich. Rub. 88, t. 6, fig. 2. —DC. 



Mus. vi. 379.— GiERTN. Fruct. i. 118, t. 25, fig. Prodr. iv. 498 (part).— Turp. Diet. 8c. Nat. Atl. 



2.— Lamk. i)tc;^. i. 549; Suppl. ii. 12 (part); t. 99.— Endl. G=<!;j.n. 3152.— March, ^t^awsonia, 



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