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ovule very incompletely anatropous and flowers with short pedicels 

 bearing bracteoles connate in a calycule ; we make it only a section 

 of Coffea. The same course perhaps should be adopted with Leio- 



Ixora {Pavetta) indica. 



Fig. 257. Flower (f). 



Fig. 259. Long. sect, 

 of base of flower {^f). 



Fig. 258. Long. sect, of 

 flower. 



cMlus, a shrub of Madagascar, whose flowers are nearly those of a 

 Cofi'ee, but the style-branches are thicker and more obtuse ; the fruit 

 is a thicker putamen with two or sometimes three cells ; and the 

 very small flowers in axillary cymes bear on their pedicels one or 

 several pairs of connate bracts forming false calycules. 



Psilanthus is also very near Coffea, and its pentamerous flowers 

 with contorted corolla are equally axillary but solitary. The ovary, 

 with two uniovulate cells, is surmounted by a long and slender style 

 with two linear stigmatiferous branches. The fruit is drupaceous, 

 but little fleshy, and the five divisions of the calyx grow, after flora- 

 tion, into large persistent lanceolate folioles. It is a shrub of the 



