28 RUBIACER, (Coffea. 
glossy ; flowers middling-sized, white, on very short pedicels, form- 
ing almost sessile, cluster-like, glabrous cymes in the axils of the 
leaves ; calyx glabrous, the limb minute, obsoletely repand-toothed 
or almost truncate ; corolla funnel-shaped, the tube slender, 2-3 lin. 
long, the 5 lobes as long or longer; anthers exserted ; berries ellip- 
tical to oblong, shortly pedicelled, the size of a cherry-stone, smooth, 
r the very small calyx-limb, containing usually 2 (or by _ 
abortion 1) thin, erustaceous, 1-seeded pyrenes. 
Has.—Occasionally cultivated, especially in Tenasserim, but nowhere on a 
large scale. —Fl. March-May; Fr. Nov.-Jan.—s, 
2. C. tetrandra, Roxb.—An evergreen tree (20—25+410—15 
+2—24), all parts quite glabrous, the young branchlets 4-gonous ; 
stipules broadly triangular, acuminate 3 leaves from broadly to 
oblong-lanceolate and elliptically oblong, acute at the base, short] 
and bluntish acuminate or apiculate, 2$-4 in. long, entire or cu 
thin-coriaceous, quite glabrous and glossy ; flowers rather conspicu- 
ous, pure white, on 3-1 in. long, rather stiff, glabrous pedicels, aris- 
ing almost umbellately by 3 and more from the apex of the short 
annual branchlets ; calyx glabrous, nearly 1% lin, long, almost 
truncate ; corolla tubular funnel-shaped, the tube nearly 5 lin. long, 
the 4 or 5 lobes as long or longer, linear, acute; anthers included ; 
berries globular, the size of a large pea, smooth, blackish purple, 
containing 2, or more usually by abortion a solitary, thin, crusta- 
ceous, 1-seeded pyrene. 
-—Not unfrequent in the tropical forests of the Martaban hills and 
ev ong.—Hl. March. 
Has 
Andaman Islands, up to 3,000 ft. elevati ; i i 
Apr—s.—S8.=ehloritie rocks, Metam °" 18° in Chittagong.—Fl. March 
3. C, ensis, Roxb. ; Bedd. Sylv. Madr. 159-8.—A leaf. 
shedding large shrub, the young shoots indistinctly pubescent ; 
1} lin. long petiole, acute to rather bluntish acuminate, 2-3 in. long, 
entire, membranous, glabrous, or indistinctly pubescent along the 
( sessile or nearly so, 
solitary or rarely by 2 or more at the end of the branchlets or in 
the axils of the leaves ; corolla tubular funnel-shaped, the tube 3-1 
in. long, the lobes more than half so long, oblong ; berries elliptical 
to elliptically oblong, the size of # pea, smooth, crowned by the 
calyx-limb, Am 
= ee he ada of Martaban down to Tenasserim; also in Chittagong.— 
SAPROSMA, BL 
Calyx-tube ellipsoid to obconical, the limb short, entire or 4-6- 
toothed, persistent, sometimes somewhat oblique. Corolla more or 
