Morinda.] Rtt-biacece. 353 



Also in S. India. 



A resinous gum envelops the calyx. This seems to me abundantly 

 distinct from the next. 



2. C. travancorensis, W. &* A. Prod. 435 (1834). [Plate LI II.] 

 Coffea triflora,Moon Cat. 15 (non Forst.). Thw. Enum. 154. C. P. 2458. 

 Fl. B. Ind. hi. 154. Bot. Mag. t. 6746. 



A small shrub, branchlets stiff, slender, thickened at nodes, 

 twigs flattened, slightly pubescent ; 1. small, 1J-3 in., oval or 

 lanceolate, acute at base, acuminate, acute or obtuse at apex, 

 quite glabrous, rather thin, petiole very short, stip. small, 

 long-triangular, acute, soon falling ; fl. solitary or in threes, 

 very shortly stalked, each with two minute, linear bracts at 

 base ; cal. very small, puberulous, limb quite absent ; cor.-tube 

 f in., glabrous within, lobes ovate-oblong, acute, rather shorter 

 than tube; ov. surmounted by thick disk surrounding style, 

 stigmas large, erect ; fruit § in. diam., distinctly didymous, 

 broader than long, slightly puberulous when young, black. 



Moist and intermediate region to 3000 ft.; rather rare. Kalutara 

 (Moon); Kurunegala (Gardner) ; Negombo; Deltota; Doluwe Kande. 

 Fl. April-June; white, very sweet-scented. 



Also in Travancore. 



Moon's S. name for this is ' Gas-pitcha,' and the flowers much resemble 

 those of a jasmine. 



C. arabica, L., the common Arabian coffee, introduced to Ceylon 

 from Java by the Dutch about 1690, and largely cultivated, is often found 

 about the sites of former native gardens or plantations, but has shown no 

 tendency to become naturalised. 



37. MORINDA,* Linn. 

 Trees or climbing shrubs, stip. various ; fl. in dense stalked 

 heads, the peduncle often taking the place of one 1. of the pair 

 and thus leaf-opposed but within the stip., or terminal; cal. - 

 tube more or less fused with adjacent ones in the head, limb 

 short or o, segm. usually o ; cor. tubular, lobes 4 or 5, valvate, 

 hairy at mouth ; stam. 4 or 5, anth. oblong ; ov. 2 or spuriously 

 4-cclled with 2 or 4 ovules, stigmas 2, linear; fruit in each 

 head concrete into a fleshy globose mass, pyrenes 3 or 4 to 

 each berry, 1 -seeded. — Sp. 40 ; 7 in Fl. B. hid. 



Trees; cor. -lob' 



L. under 6 in., dull 1. M. TINCTORIA. 



L. over 6 in., shining 2. M. citrifolia. 



Climbing shrub: cor.-lobes 4 3. M. UMBELLA'ia. 



Fl. conspicuously dimorphic. 



* Morinda. a name given by Vaillant ; said to be a contraction of Moms 

 indict, and doubtless alluding to the compound fruit. 



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