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23. PAVETTA, Linn. 

 (The name of a Malabar species.) 



Calyx-tube turbinate or oampanulate ; limb 4 or very rarely 5-lobed or sub- 

 truncate, persistent or deciduous ; lobes short or elongated. Corolla usually 

 salver-shaped ; tube cylindrical or funnel-shaped, usually slender ; throat bearded 

 or pubescent, sometimes glabrous ; limb 4 or very rarely 5-partite, segments oval 

 or oblong, spreading or refiexed, contorted dextrorsely (as seen from inside) in the 

 bud. Stamens 4 or very rarely 5, inserted at the mouth of the corolla, exserted, 

 spreading or reflexed ; anthers linear, glabrous, nearly equalling the corolla-lobes, 

 fixed by the back at or near the base, after flowering usually twisted ; filaments 

 short or half the length of the anthers. Disk annular, fleshy. Ovary small, 

 2-celled, very rarely 4-celled, style exserted by at least the length of the coroUa- 

 lobes, slender ; stigma narrowly fusiform or slightly club-shaped, u"ndivided or 

 bidentate at the tip. Ovules'solitary, usually peltately immersed or impressed on 

 the fleshy placentas, amphitropous. Berry pea-shaped, rather fleshy ; pyrenes 2, 

 chartaeeous. Seeds convex outside, concave or excavated on the inner face ; 

 umbilicus ventral ; testa membranous ; albumen horny, uniform, excavated on 

 the- inner face ; embryo dorsal, curved, cotyledons foliaceous, radicle terete, 

 inferior. — Shrubs or trees. 



Chiefly inhabiting the tropical and subtropical regions of the Old World. 



1. P. indica (of India), Linn.; W. and Am. Prod. 431 ; Wight Ic. 148. A 

 tall shrub or small tree, glabrous or slightly pubescent. Leaves petiolate, oval- 

 oblong or almost lanceolate, acute or acuminate, 3 to 4in. long, narrowed at the 

 base. Stipules very shortly acuminate, connected at the base within the 

 petioles. Corymb loosely trichotomous, sessile above the last leaves. Calyx 

 about 1 line long ; limb loosely oampanulate with minute teeth. Corolla-tube 

 4 or 5 rarely 6 lines long ; lobes oblong, much shorter. Fruit black, 2 or 3 lines 

 diameter. Seeds hemispherical, very concave on the inner face. — Ixora Pavetta, 

 Eoxb. Fl. Ind. i. 385 ; Fl. Austr. iii. 414. 



Hab.: Common through the coastal scrubs of the colony. 



Wood of a light colour, close-grained and firm. — Bailey's Gat. Ql. Woodt No. 254. 



24. COFFEA, Linn. 

 (Said to derive its name from Coffee, a province of Narea, in Africa.) 



Calyx-tube short ; limb short, often glandular, persistent. Corolla-tube short 

 or long ; lobes 4 to 7, spreading, twisted in bud. Anthers 4 to 7, sessile on the 

 corolla-tube or ttroat, narrow, often recurved and twisted. Ovary 2-celled, style 

 filiform, smooth, branches linear or subulate ; ovule 1, peltately attached to the 

 septum in each cell. Drupe with 2 plano-convex or ventrally concave coriaceous 

 or cartilaginous pyrenes. Seeds plano-convex, concave or grooved ventrally, 

 albumen horny ; embryo short, towards the base of the seed curved, cotyledons 

 thin cordate, radicle inferior. — Shrubs or small trees with compressed branchlets. 

 Leaves sometimes in threes ; stipules broad. Flowers in axillary fascicles or 

 cymes or solitary, white or yellowish, often scented ; bracteoles often connate. 



Natives of the tro{)ics of the Old World. 



1. C. bengalensis (of Bengal), Ro.vb. ; Hook. FL Brit. Ind. iii. 152. 

 Branchlets horizontal, slender. Leaves deciduous, glabrous, sometimes 5in. long 

 and Sin. broad, but usually smaller, membranous, green when dry, obtusely 

 acuminate, not shining, nerves beneath somewhat hairy, always shortly contracted 

 into the short petiole. Stipules subulate. Flowers always appearing before the 



