EUCOFFEA HOOK. F. 19 



Synonymy: — Coffea triflora var. fragrans (Wall). Froehner in 

 Notlzbl. d. Kgl. Bot. Gard. i (1897) 231; in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. 

 25 (1898) 256. 



Geographical Distribution: — Eastern India; Sylhet, Tenasserim, 

 Burma, Mergui. 



History: — C. fragrans Wall, ex Hook. f. was collected in the 

 Sylhet region of India by Gomez; in Tenasserim by Heifer; and 

 in Mergui (Mergui) by Griffith. It is very similar to G. travan- 

 corensis Wight & Arn. and has been treated as a variety of that 

 species by some authors. 



Uses: — Mainly as a substitute for the seeds of C, arabica L. 



Bibliography: — Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. 3 (1882) 154. — Froehner in 

 Engl. Bot. Jahrb. 25 (1898) 256.— Lecomte Le Cafe (1899) I5-— 

 Valeton in Bull. Inst. Bot. Buitenz. 7 (1901) 7, I7, 20. 



Economic and Cultural References: — Sebire PI. Util. Senegal (1899) 

 179.— Gamble Man. Ind. Timbers ed. 2 (1922) 422. 



Coffea travancorensis Wight and Arn. Prodr. i (1834) 435. 



A small shrub. Branches stiff, slightly pubescent, slender, thick- 

 ened at the nodes ; twigs flattened ; bark of the younger twigs brown- 

 ish. Leaves small, 2.5 cm. to 3.75 cm. wide by 7.5 cm. to lO.o cm. 

 long, oval, lanceolate or elliptic-lanceolate, acute at the base, acumi- 

 nate, shortly acute or obtuse at the apex, quite glabrous, rather thin; 

 petiole very short; stipules small, short, rounded, with cuspidate 

 point, soon dehiscent. Flowers solitary or in threes, occasionally 

 in fours, usually 5-merous, white, very sweet-scented, synanthous; 

 pedicel very short, each bearing 2 minute, linear bracts at the base; 

 corolla-tube 1.66 cm. to 2.5 cm. long, glabrous within, lobes ovate- 

 oblong, acute, rather shorter than the tube; ovary bears thick disk 

 surrounding the style; stigma large, erect; calyx small, pubescent, 

 limb quite absent or 2- to 3-toothed. Fruit black, broadly didymous, 

 0.83 cm. in diameter. Slightly pubescent when young; deep ver- 

 tical furrow divides the fruit into 2 parts causing it to appear 

 bicapitate; pedicel short. 



Diagnostic Characters of the Species: — This plant blossoms from 

 April until June. The flowers resemble those of jasmine and are 

 similar to, but smaller than, C. bengalensis Heyne ex Roem. & 

 Schult. The leaves are dark above, lighter green below, somewhat 

 shorter than C. bengalensis Heyne ex Roem. & Schult. The leaves 



