430 NJiTUBAL HISTOBY OF PLANTS. 



or less ventral or inferior; raphe dorsal. Fruit globose or ovoid, 

 little fleshy, 1, 2-celled, 1, 2-spermous, more rarely 3, 4-spermous. 

 Seeds descending; albumen horny, continuous (Eitcremaspora) or 

 oftener (Polysphmria^) deeply ruminate; radicle of vertical or oblique 

 embryo superior or inferior. Other characters of Coffea.^ — ^Kamose 

 shrubs, glabrous or variously pubescent ; leaves opposite, short- 

 petiolate, ovate or oblong, membranous or coriaceous ; stipules intra- 

 petiolar, often cuspidate, deciduous ; flowers in axillary cymes or 

 glomeriiles. Bracts in 1 or more pairs superposed connate in a 

 calycule.' {Trap, south., east, and west. cont. and ins. Africa.*) 



74. Aulacocalyx Hooe. f.* — Flowers hermaphrodite ; receptacle 

 bbconical. Calyx 4, 5-fid ; lobes imbricate elongate-lanceolate or 

 obtuse {Belonophora ^). Corolla funnel-shaped or hypocrateriform, 

 externally sericeous ; tube slender ; lobes 4, 5, closely contorted. 

 Stamens 4, 5 ; anthers sessile dorsifixed introrse, enclosed (Belono- 

 phora) or semi-exserted. Germen 2-celled ; disk epigynous more or 

 less thick-^ style branches 2, erect or recurved papillose. Ovules 

 solitary descending ; micropyle introrse. Fruit subglobose coriaceous- 

 fleshy ; albumen of descending seed horny ; cotyledons of small 

 curved embryo subcordate ; radicle superior. — Trees or shrubs ; leaves 

 opposite petiolate, elliptical or oblong acuminate; stipules inter- 

 petiolar rigid acuminate, persistent or deciduous ; flowers ' axillary 

 cymose or glomerulate, sometimes subsolitary, bracteolate.' (Trop. 

 west. Africa.^) 



75 ? Galiniera Del." — Flowers 5-merous or more rarely 4-merous 

 (Octotropis ") ; receptacle obovoid or obconical. Calyx superior 

 gamophyllous dentate, persistent. CoroUa subrotate or shortly cam- 



• Hook. p. Gen. ii. 108, u. ?21. 6 Hook. r. Icon. 1. 1127. — B. H. Gen. n. 222. 

 2 Xo which, the genus is very near, differing ' White, moderate. 



only hy its descending ovule. a A genus closely allied to Oofea, differing 



'Like Triealysia, to which genus it also chiefly by its descending ovule. Sect, in genus, 



appears very near. in our sense, 2: 1. Belonophora; 2. £uaulaeo- 



* Spec, ahout 10. Schcm. et Thonn. Beskr. calyx, 



108 {Psychotria). — DC. Frodr. iv. 499, n. 4 ' Spec. 2. Hiekn, Fl. Trop. Afr. iii. 129. 



{^Coffea).—Gt. Don, Gen. Syst. iii. 681 (Coffea).— '» Ann. Se. Nat. ser. 2, xx. 92, t. 1 ; Ferr. et 



DiDR. Fjob. Vid. Medd. (18S4) 187, n. 6. — Galin. Voy. Abyss, iii. 138, t. 6.— B. H. Gen. ii. 



HiEBN, Fl. Tr. Afr. iii. 126, 127 {Polyaphaeria). 91, n. 112.— Ptyehostigma Hoohst. Sehimp. PI. 



— H. Bn. Adansonia, xii. 234, 283. — "Walp. Abyss. Exs. n. 1586. 



Ann. ii. 750. " " Bedd. Fl. Si/lv. 13, o. tab. ; cxxxiv.— B. H. 



5 Icon.t. 1 126.— B. H. Gen. ii. 109, n. 223. Gen. ii. 1229, n. 224 a. 



