886 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



the Coffee, those of several species of Hypohathrum,^ Uragoga,^ 

 Cremaspora,^ Coffea mauritiana,^ or Cafe marron of the Mascarenes, G. 

 benghalensis,^ stenophylla,^ Zangueharice,'' racemosa.^ The only species 

 which may, in future, supply the place of G. arabica, of equally good 

 quality but larger seeds, is G. liberica,^ observed in a wild state in 

 tropical western Africa, and already vigorously cultivated in British 

 India and Java. 



Beside the Rubiacece with aromatic essences, we may indicate those 

 which by their foetid odour approach the Valerianece and like them are 

 sometimes recommended as antispasmodic. This character pertains 

 to nearly the entire series of Anthosperme.ce, particularly Anthosperrmtm 

 cethiopicum '" (fig. 237, 238) and others from the Cape, whose odour 

 is sometimes stinking. Goprosma owes its, name to the same cause." 

 Serissa foetida,^' the root of which is bitter and astringent, and which 

 is considered anthelminthic, has very foetid leaves, as also another 

 Chinese species, S. Democritea,^^ and several Asiatic species of Lepto- 

 dermis?* Pcederia foetida '^ (fig. 248-250) has an intolerable odour. 

 Its decoction is employed in India against fevers, contusions, vertigo, 

 retention of urine. Some species have been extolled for madness. 

 Some plants of another series, Uragoga, are sometimes very foetid, and 

 beside them Saprosma, particularly S. arboreum,^^ which, in Java, has 



' Coffea sttUeifolia Mia. of Java, belongs to 171, t. 24 ; M. Trop.Afr. iii. 181, n. 2.— Hook. 



this genus. f. Xem Gard. Hep. (1877) 10, c. io. mutuata.— 



' FaitioTHscrly ih.osena.med.Pstichotria Brownei C. arabica (part) Benih. Niijer PI. 413 (uotL.). 



Spb. laxa Sw. marginata Sw. nervosa Sw. i» L. Spec. 1511 ; Sort Cliff, t. 27. Hakv. 



uUginosa Sw. and Sond. Fl. Cap. iii. 27. 



' Especially C. africana Benth. which is " Particularly C. lucida and faetidissima 



Coffea hirmtus G. Don, and which we have Fokst. of New Zealand. 



shown to be C. microearpa DO. (_Sull. Soo. Linn, '-' CoMMEKS./.Gen. 209 (notW.). — "DCProdr. 



Far. 206). iv. 675.— Curt. Bot. Mag. t. 361.— Rosenth. he. 



'^ Lamk. Diet. i. 550 ; III. t. 160, fig. 2.— DC. cit. 322. — Lxjciwm fmtidum L. r. Suppl. 150.— Z. 



P;Wj-. iv. 499, 11. 2. — C. arabica vai. pyf. Spec. indicum Eetz. Obs. ii. 12. — Dysoda fasciculala 



i. 974. — C. syhestris W. (ex E. et ScH. Sgst. v. ljOVS..—D.foetidaSAi.KB.—Buchoziacoprosmoides 



201). Lhfr. 



' KoxB. Cat. Mori. Calc. 15; Fl. Ind. ii. 194. " Semocritea serissoides DC. Prodr. iv. 640'. 



—DC. Prodr. n. 3. (M. Franchet has noted this fact.) 



« G. Don, Gen. Syat. iii. 681.— (T. arabica '* Among others HarojZiJoKia. 



Benth. (part) Niger Fl. 413 (not L.). " L. Mantiss. 52.— Lamk. III. t. 166, fig.l.— 



7 LoHR. Fl. CocMnch. (ed. 1790) U6.—Ama- DC. Prodr. ivi'471.— Rosenth. op. cit. 330, 112Q. 



Joua africana Spreng. Syst. ii. 126. —Apocynum fcelidum Burm. Fl. Ind. 71 {Be- 



» LoDB. loc. cit. 145 (not Pav.) — C. ramnsa dalfee sutta). 

 E. et ScH. Syst. i. 198. — C. mozamiicana DC. 16 Bl. Bijdr. 956. — DC. Prodr. iv. 493, n. 1 



Prodr. n. 18. {Lignnrnfoetidumjavanioum). 



• BuLi, ex HiERN, Trans. Linn. Soc. ser. 2, i. 



