886 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



the Coffee, those of several species of Hypohathrurrii^ Uragoga,^ 

 Cremaspora,^ Coffea mauritiana,^ or Cafe marron of the Mascarenes, C. 

 henghaJensis,^ stenophylla,^ Zangueharice,'^ racemosa.^ The only species 

 which may, in future, supply the place of C. arahica, of equally good 

 quality but larger seeds, is 0. liberica,^ observed in a wild state in 

 tropical western Africa, and already vigorously cultivated in British 

 India and Java. 



Beside the Ruhiacece with aromatic essences, we may indicate those 

 which by their foetid odour approach the Valerianece and like them are 

 sometimes recommended as antispasmodic. This character pertains 

 to nearly the entire series of Anthospermew, particularly Anthospermum 

 cBthiopicum ^^ (fig. 237, 238) and others from the Cape, whose odour 

 is sometimes stinking. Coprosma owes its name to the same cause. ^^ 

 Serissa foetida,^^ the root of which is bitter and astringent, and which 

 is considered anthelminthic, has very foetid leaves, as also another 

 Chinese species, S. Democritea,^^ and several Asiatic species of Lepto- 

 dermis?'^ Fmleria foetida ^^ (fig. 248-250) has an intolerable odour. 

 Its decoction is employed in India against fevers, contusions, vertigo, 

 retention of urine. Some species have been extolled for madness. 

 Some plants of another series, Uragoga, are sometimes very foetid, and 

 beside them Saprosma, particularly S. arhoreum,^^ which, in Java, has 



> Cafea salieifolia Miq. of Java, belongs to 171, t. 24 ; Fl. Trop.Afr. iii. 181, n. 2.— Hook. 



this genus. p. Few Gard. Hep. (1877) 10, c, ic. mutuata.— 



2 Particularly those named Psychotria Brownei C. araUca (part) Benth. Niger Fl. 413 (not L.). 

 Spr. laxa Sw. marginata Sw. nervosa Sw. i" L. Spec. 1511 ; Hort. Cliff, t. 27. — Harv. 

 uliginosa Sw. and Sond. Fl. Cap. iii. 27. 



3 Especially C. africana Benth. which is i* Particularly C. lucida and foetidissima 

 Coffea hirsutus G. Don, and which we have Forst. of New Zealand. 



shown to be C. microearpa DC. {Bull. Soc. Linn. '-^ Commers./. Gen. 209 (notW.). — DC. Prodr, 



Far. 206). iv. 575.— Curt. Bot. Mag.t. 361.— Eosenth. loc. 



* Lamk. Diet. i. 550 ; III. t. 160, fig. 2.— DC. cit. Z22.—Lycium foetidum L. p. Suppl. 150.— Z. 

 P>'0<?r. iv. 499, n. 2. — C. arabica xar. fi'W. Spec. indicum Retz. Obs. ii. 12. — Bysoda fasciculaia 

 i. 974. — C. sylxestris W. (ex E, et Sch. Syst. v. Lour. — D.foBtida^AiA%ji.—Buchoziacoprosmoides 

 201). Lhf.r. 



* EoxB, Cat. Sort. Calc. 15 ; Fl. Ind. ii. 194. ^^ Bemocritea serissoides DC. Prodr. iv. 540. 

 — DC. Prodr. n. 3. (M. Franchet has noted this fact.) 



. • G. Don, Gen. Syst. iii, 581. — C. arahica ^^ Among others Hamiltonia. 



Bei^th. (part) Niger Fl. 413 (not L.). »* L. Mantiss. 52.— Lamk. III. i. 166, fig. 1.— 



7 Lour. Fl. Cochinch. (ed. 1790) Ii5,—Ania- DC. Frodr. iv. 471.— Eosenth. op. cii. 330, 1120. 



joua africana Spreng. Syst. ii. 126. —Apocynum foeUdum Bukm. Fl. Ind. 71 {Be- 



8. Lour. loc. cit. 145 (not Pav.) — C. ramosa dalfee sutta). 

 E. et Sch. Syst. i. 198.— 6\ mozambtcana DC. i« Bl. Bijdr. 956.— DC. Prodr. iv. 493, n. 1 



Frodr. n. 18. {Lignum foetidum javanieum). 



* Bull, ex Hiern, Trans. Linn. Soc. ser. 2, i. 



