Lzora.] RUBIACER. 27 
Var. 2, Bandhuca (I. Bandhuca, Roxb.) : corolla-lobes broadly 
ovate, bluntish; leaves usually all sessile with a cordate base, blunt 
wi r 
Has.—Generally cultivated all over Burma, from Ava down to Tenasserim. 
—Fi. Nov.-March. 
26. I, glaucina, Kz.—An evergreen shrub, all parts glabrous ; 
stipules from a broad base abruptly subulate-acuminate ; leaves 
oblong to elliptically-lanceolate, acute at the base, on a strong $-3 
in. long petiole, shortly acuminate, 4-6 in. long, entire, thin- 
chartaceous, glabrous, glossy above or opaque; flowers conspicuous, 
scarlet, on thick very short pedicels, or those in the forks sessile, 
cymulose, forming a very short peduncled or almost sessile tricho- 
tomous, and rather crowded, glabrous, corymbose cyme at the end of 
the branchlets; calyx a line long, glabrous, the teeth short, trian- 
gular, 2 of them acute, the remaining 2 blunt; corolla glabrous, 
the tube slender, 14 in. long, the lobes about } as long, ovate- 
lanceolate, acute or almost acuminate. 
Has.—Upper Tenasserim.—Fl. Feb. 
COFFEA, L. 
Calyx-tube ovoid or turbinate, adnate to the ovary, the limb 
minute, 4-7-toothed. Corolla funnel- or salver-shaped, the limb 
with as many lobes as calyx-teeth, imbricate and almost twisted 
in the bud. Stamens as many as corolla-lobes, inserted at the 
midde or summit of the corolla-tube, included or exserted. Ovary 
2-celled, with a solitary ovule in each cell attached to the middle 
of the dissepiment; style filiform; stigma 2-cleft. Berry more 
or less elliptical to globular, crowned by the calyx-limb or trun- 
cate, containing 2- or by abortion a solitary, 1-seeded pergama- 
ceous pyrene. Seeds plano-convex. Albumen horny. Embryo 
erect, with a terete radicle and leafy cotyledons.—Shrubs or trees, 
with interpetiolar free stipules. Flowers often sexually dimorphous, 
solitary or clustered, terminal or axillary. 
x All parts quite glabrous and glossy. Berries peduncled. : 
Flowers in axillary clusters, very shorty pedicell ot OO, BIRO: 
Flowers usually terminal, rarely axillary, on 4-1 in. long pedicels . C. tetrandra. 
The young shoots and nerves beneath sparingly pubes- 
berries and flowers sessile . ° ‘ . CO. Bengalensis. 
1. C, Arabica, L.; Bedd. Sylv. Madr. 189-8, t. 17, f. 1; Brand. 
For. Fl. 276.—Ka-pwot.—An evergreen tree (20—30 + 4—8 + 
14—2), usually kept low by culture, all parts quite glabrous and 
glossy ; stipules broadly triangular, acute, glabrous ; leaves oblong 
to oblong-lanceolate, acute at the base, on a 3-4 lin, long petiole, 
bluntish acuminate, entire or waved, thin-coriaceous, glabrous, 
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