■Coffea.] rxxv. eubiace^. (J. D. Hooker.) 155 



-glabrous; teeth erect, triangular. CoroKa ^ in. yellowisli; lobes short. Style shoit, arms 

 liiiear. Fruit ^ in. diam., smooth ; ealyx-teeth persistent. Seeds orbicular, vcntrally 

 concave. — The specimens seen of Lachnost'Oma triflorum are imperfect, and have smaller 

 leaves than this, and the corolla is less hairy. Coffea densiflora, Elume, of Java and 

 Sumatra, is evidently allied, but the description and our specimens are insufficient. 



C. C. Jenkinsii, Hook. f. ; glabrous, leaves elliptic-laDceolate caudate- 

 acuminate, base acute, nerves 5-6 pair, calyx-teeth 4, corollartube longer than 

 i;he lobes, mouth glabrate, lobes acute, fruit ellipsoid. 



Khasia Mts., alt. 3-4000 ft., Jenkins, Griffith (Kew Distrib. 3015). 



Closely allied to C. Tchasiana, but almost entirely glabrous, the young shoots only 

 ^uberulous, the leaves are narrower with fewer stronger nerves, the flowers are rather 

 larger and the fruit and seeds quite different, the former being ellipsoid J in. long, 

 and the latter plano-convex. — This approaches 0. salicifolia, Miquel, of Java. It is 

 remarkable that no Coffea has been collected in the Malay Peninsula, tliough such 

 near allies of this and C. Tchasiana inhabit Sumatra and Java. 



Tribe XII. nXOB-INDES. 

 69. nZORXNSA, Linn. 



Erect or climbing shrubs or trees, branches terete or 4-gonous. Leaves op- 

 ^losite, rarely in threes ; stipules connate, sheathing. Flowers in axillary or 

 terminal simple panicled or umbellate peduncled heads, white, more or less con- 

 nate by the calyces. Calyx-tube short ; limb short or 0. CoroUa-tuhe short or 

 long; lobes 4-7, coriaceous, valvate in bud. Stamens 4-7, filaments short; 

 anthers linear or oblong. Ovary 2- or spuriously 4-celled ; style slender, branches 

 long or short ; ovules solitary, ascending from towards the base of the septum 

 in each cell. Fruit compressed, formed of the succulent enlarged calyces en- 

 closing many cartilaginous or bony 1-seeded pyrenes, which sometimes cohere 

 into a 2-4rcelled putamen ; rarely of nearly free drupes. Seeds obovoid or reni- 

 form, testa membranous, albumen fleshy or homy ; embryo terete, radicle inferior. 

 — DiSTBlB. Species about 40, aU tropical. 



* Corolla S-7-mei'ous, tube long. 



1. Ml. citrifolia, X«ra». ; DC. Prodr. iv. 446; glabrous, leaves usually 

 "6-10 in. broadly elliptic acuminate acute or obtuse shining, peduncles solitary 

 leaf-opposed rarely 2-3-nate at the ends of the branches, flowers 5-merous, fruit 

 of many drupes coalescent into a fleshy globose or ovoid head 1 in. diam. 



Cultivated and wild? throughout the hotter parts of India and Ceylon. — Distkib. 

 Malay Archipelago, Australia, Pacific Islands. 



A small tree; trunk straight, bark smooth, branches obtusely i-angled. Leaves 

 -shining, short-petioled, one of the pair next the peduncle often suppressed ; stipules 

 large, broadly oblong or semi-lunar, emire or 2-3-fid, glabrous. Peduncles usually in 

 the axils of every other pair of leaves, 1 in. long or more. Calyx-limb tnmcato. Co- 

 rolla white, tube ^ in. or less; lobes glabrous, fusiform in bud, throat pubescent. 

 Anthers partly exserted. Head of fruit yellowish. — I have united M. citrifolia and 

 bracteata, as this seems to meet the views of most Indian botanists, though Soxbiirgh, 

 who alone seems to have studied these Morindas, keeps 'them apart, regarding M. 

 ■iraoteata as a native (of Ganjam, in Orissa). He, however, gives us other distinctive 

 -characters of the latter than the foliaceous calyx-lobes and included anthers (a 

 -sexual character). Thwaites regards M. bracteata as both wild and cultivated in 

 •Ceylon, and finds the presence of bracts inconstant. Both are regarded by others as 

 ^lultivated forms of M. iinctoria, which, however, looks different. Eheede, whoso 

 figures Eoxburgh quotes for citrifolia, represents the flower of the upper head as with 

 ^alyoine lobes. 



