430 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



or less ventral or inferior; raphe dorsal. Fruit globose or ovoid, 

 little fleshy, 1, 2-celled, 1, 2-spermous, more rarely 3, 4-spermous. 

 Seeds descending; albumen horny, continuous {Eucremas'pora) or 

 oftener (Polysphceria^) deeply ruminate; radicle of vertical or oblique 

 embryo superior or inferior. Other characters of Coffea.^ — Ramose 

 shrubs, glabrous or variously pubescent ; leaves opposite, short- 

 petiolate, ovate or oblong, membranous or coriaceous ; stipules intra- 

 petiolar, often cuspidate, deciduous ; flowers in axillary cymes or 

 glomerules. Bracts in 1 or more pairs superposed connate in a 

 calycule.^ {Trop. south., east, and west. cont. and ins, Africa.'^) 



74. Aulacocalyx Hook, f.^ — Flowers hermaphrodite ; receptacle 

 obconical. Calyx 4, 5-fid ; lobes imbricate elongate-lanceolate or 

 obtuse (Belonophora^). Corolla funnel-shaped or hypocrateriform, 

 externally sericeous ; tube slender ; lobes 4, 5, closely contorted. 

 Stamens 4, 5 ; anthers sessile dorsifixed introrse, enclosed {Belono- 

 phora) or semi-exserted. Germen 2-celled ; disk epigynous more or 

 less thick; style branches 2, erect or recurved papillose. Ovules 

 solitary descending ; micropyle introrse. Fruit subglobose coriaceous- 

 fleshy ; albumen of descending seed horny ; cotyledons of small 

 curved embryo subcordate ; radicle superior. — Trees or shrubs ; leaves 

 opposite petiolate, elliptical or oblong acuminate; stipules inter- 

 petiolar rigid acuminate, persistent or deciduous ; flowers ' axillary 

 cymose or glomerulate, sometimes subsolitary, bracteolate.^ (Trop, 

 west. Africa.^) 



75 ? Galiniera Del.^*' — Flowers 5-merous or more rarely 4-merous 

 (Octotropis ^') ; receptacle obovoid or obconical. Calyx superior 

 gamophyllous dentate, persistent. Corolla subrotate or shortly cam- 



1 Hook. f. Gen. ii. 108, n. 22L « Hook. f. Icon. 1. 1127. -B. H. Gen. n. 222. 



2 To which the genus is very near, differing 7 White, moderate. 



only hy its descending ovule. * A genus closely allied to Cofea, differing 



3 Like Tricalysia, to which genus it also chiefly hy its descending ovule. Sect, in genus, 

 appears very near. in our sense, 2 : 1 . Belonnphora ; 2. Euaulaco- 



^ Spec, about 10. Schum. et Thonn. Beskr. calyx. 



108 {Psychofria).— 'DC. Prodr. iv. 499, n. 4 ^ gp^c. 2. Hiern, i^^. Trojt?. 4/r. iii. 129., 



{Coffea).—(3(. Don, Gen. Syst. iii. 581 (Cofea).— ^" Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 2, xx. 92, t. 1 ; Ferr. et 



DiDR. KJob. Fid. Medd. (1854) 187, n. 5. — Galin. Voy. Abyss, iii. 138, t. 6.— B. H. Gen. ii. 



Hiern, Fl. Tr. Afr. iii. 126, 127 (PolysphcBria). 91, n. ll2.—Ptyehostigma Hochst. Schimp. PL 



— H. Bn. Adansonia, xii. 234, 283. — Walp. Abyss. Fxs. n. loSd. 



Ann. ii. 750. " Bedd. Fl. Sylv. 13, c. tab. ; oxxxiv.— B. H. 



5 Icon. i. 1 126.— B. H. Gen. ii. 109, n. 223. Qen. ii. 1229, n. 224 a. 



