192 PENTANDRIA MOKOGYNIA. CoffeCl- 



terminal on the branchlets, forming a crowded inflorescence at the 

 end of the larger branches ; each facicle is disposed in a rec- 

 tilinear series. — Calyx appears double, as is the case in the preced- 

 ing genus; one inferior (properly speaking a calyciform bracle) con- 

 sisting of a tubular, thin, greyish, smooth, withering membiane (fiom 

 •whence the generic name is derived) embracing loosely the ovarium 

 and the lower part of the flower ; the tube is a little ventricose, ihe 

 upper end divided into two erect, ovate, ciliate, parallel lubes, 

 each terminated by a short, decurrent euspis. The inner or true calyx 

 is above, concealed within the former, and considerably shorter than 

 that, persistent, five lobed, reddish ; lobes rounded, adpressed to the 

 tube of the corolla, ciliate. — Corolla infundibuliform, slightly sca- 

 brous on the outside irom a multitude of minute papillulae. Tube 

 cyliudric, about halt an inch long, hairy within, the apex gently wiuV 

 eninginto the five-cleft, spreading border; iacinia ovate, cuspidate, 

 shorter than the tube, with bjoadish margins, which at the time of 

 aestivation are involute-vahate. — Filaments exceedingly short, insert- 

 ed immediately below the fissures, alternating with the lacinice; 

 anthers longish, erect, elevated a little above the pervious throat, at- 

 tached to the filaments by their back, bilocular, whitish. — Ovarium 

 oblong, smooth, fleshy ; at the upper part it is five-celled, each cell 

 containing an erect, cuneate ovuiuni. Style capillary, as long as the 

 tube. Siigma divided into five subulate, longish, diverging, pubescent 

 lobes. — I have only had an opportunity of observing the old and de- 

 cayed fi uit which appeared to have been an oblong, or cylindnc, smooth, 

 capsule, about half an inch long, divided down to the base into five 

 linear, flat valves, each valve bearing at the apex the corresponding, 

 unaltered lobe oi the calyx ; there was no vestige of any separate 

 cells, a few withered seeds \7ere attached to the bottom of the cavity. 



COFFEA. Schreb. Gen. N. 314. 



Corol funnel-shaped. Germ two-celled, one-seeded, attachment 

 of the ovula interior. Berry inferior, two-celled, one-seeded. Seedsi 

 arilled. Embryo erect, and furnished with a perisperm. 



