ROYAL GARDENS, KEW. 
BULLETIN 
OF 
MISCELLANEOUS INFORMATION. 
No. 119. ] NOVEMBER. [1896. 
DXXXIL— HIGHLAND COFFEE OF SIERRA LEONE. 
(Coffea stenophylla, G. Don.) 
With Plate. 
The Highland Coffee of Sierra Leone AA c stenophylla) is an 
pcc plant, as being, according to the Botanical Magazine, t. 
7 * one of the two indigenous West African species* which in point 
of commercial value may prove a formidable rival of the Arabian coffee." 
It was discovered by Afzelius upwards of a century ago; but was not 
published until 1834, when G. Don described it from specimens collected 
‘by himself at Sierra Leone. Sir Josep ph Hooker remarks :—“ It was 
regarded by Bentham, perhaps rightly, in the ‘ Niger Flora,’ as a variety 
of C. arabica.” 
The plant is an evergreen shrub or small tree up to 20 feet age 
the youngest leaf-shoots are pink. Leaves four to six inches long by 
one to one and a half broad, bright n and glossy above, m 
beneath ; nerves, six to ten pairs, with small glands at the axils, which are 
wig res globose. Seeds hemispheric, with a narrow ventral furrow 
s its name, *'The Highland Coffee of Sierra Leone," to Dr. 
Danieli 
Mr. G. F£. Scott-Elliot, F.L.S., the botanist to Me d 
Boundar ee in 1892, also collected specimens, whi 
in the Kew Herbarium. Sir Jo ph Hooker remarks that (itio ie 
of a very "Nite oo it with lanceolate leaves only two to two and 
a half inches long by one-third to two-thirds ot an inch broad, v 
different from those represent ted in lbs accompanying plate, “and these 
together favour the opinion entertained by Bentham, that both are 
forms of C. arabica, Linn 
E Scott-Elliot s account (Kew Bulletin, 1893, p. 167) is as 
o 
s Coffee stenophylla, the narrow-leaved * wild, * bush,’ or * native coffee,’ 
is sometimes found wild in the hills, and is more often cultivated than 
* The other is C. liberiea, Bull. 
u 94127. 1375—1096. Wt. 123. A 
