Scyphostachys.] RubicicecB. 335 



cor.-tube short, hairy within, lobes 4, small, twisted in bud; 

 stam. 4, anth. nearly sessile, included ; ov. 2-celled, with 4 

 pendulous ovules in each cell, stigmas 2, pilose ; fruit a berry, 

 i-celled, with 1 or 2 seeds. — Endemic Genus, the following 

 the only species. 



Stip. hairy within ; berries purple . . . 1. S. PEDUNCULATUS, 



Stip. glabrous within ; berries scarlet . . . 2. S. COFF.<eoides. 



1. S. pedunculatus, Tlvw. Enum. 157 (1859). 

 C. P. 3423- 



Fl. B. Ind. iii. 122. 



A shrub, branches slender, cylindrical, slightly rough ; 1, 

 3^— 5| in., lanceolate-oblong, abruptly narrowed at base, 

 shortly acuminate, acute at apex, glabrous above, pubescent 

 on midrib beneath, petiole \ in., stip. rather large, connate, 

 ovate, acute, lined with long silky hair, striate outside ; fl. 

 rather small, sessile, few, in small supra-axillary, stalked 

 spikes, peduncle \-\ in., pubescent, deflexed, bracts rather 

 large in several opposite pairs, connate, sheathing and over- 

 lapping, pubescent, forming a short imbricated catkin ; cor.- 

 lobes short, rotundate, berry tipped with cal.-segm., nearly 

 -f in., ovoid, very soft, dark purple; seed usually solitary, 

 narrowly oblong. 



Moist low country; very rare. Only found at Hewesse, Pasdum 

 Korale. Fl. April ; white. 

 Endemic. 



2. S. coffeeoides, Thw. Enum. 157 (1859). Wal-kopi, S. 



C. P. 2710. 



Fl. B. Ind. iii. 122. Bedd. Fl. Sylv. Anal. Gen. t. 16, f. 6; Ic. PI. Ind. 

 Or. t. 240. 



A shrub with spreading virgate branches, bark smooth, 

 shining, yellow; 1. 3^-5 in., lanceolate, acute at base, acuminate, 

 acute at apex, quite glabrous, somewhat undulate at margin, 

 subcoriaccous, petiole very short, stip. connate, acute, puberu- 

 lous ; fl. small, sessile in small dense axillary clusters or 

 solitary, each surrounded at base by an involucre of 2 connate 

 pubcrulous bracts ; cal.-limb very short, hairy within, lobes 

 rotundate, recurved ; berry about § in., oblong-ovoid, sup- 

 ported by persistent bracts, truncate at top, scarlet ; seeds 2, 

 oblong-ovoid. 



Moist low country ; rare. About Ratnapura ; Badamua, S. Prov. FL 

 March, April ; white. 

 n, ic. 



The native name, 'Wild Coffee,' is very appropriate as far as the 

 foliage ;; 



