22 COFFEE 



are pale and rather yellowish when dry, broadly orbicular-elliptical 

 in Ceylon specimens. In general, the leaves are intermediate in size 

 between C. JVightiana Wall, and C. benffalensis Heyne ex Roem. 

 & Schult. The form of the stipules distinguishes this species from 

 C. benffalensis Heyne ex Roem. & Schult. 



Synonymy: — Cojfea triflora Moon Cat. (1824) 15 (Non Forst). 



Common Name: — Moon's Sinhalese name for this plant is "Gas- 

 pichcha." 



Geographical Distribution : — Southern and Western India, Ne- 

 gombo, Deltota, Doluwe Kande, Travancore; Ceylon, in the warm, 

 moist, and intermediate regions up to 3000 feet; rather rare. 

 Unauthentic reports from Java. 



History: — C. travancorensis Wight and Arn. was first described 

 in 1834 by Wight as an indigenous plant in western India in the 

 Travancore region. It was also collected in Kalutara by Moon 

 and in Kurunegala by Gardner. It is rather rare and not as yet 

 of any commercial importance. 



Uses: — Mainly as a local substitute for the seeds of C. arah'ica L. 



Bibliography: — Wall. Cat. (1832) No. 6245. — Wight and Arn. Prodr. 



1 (1834) 435- — Thwaites Enum. Ceylon PL (1859) 154. — Hook. f. Fl. 

 Brit. Ind. 3 (1882) 154. — Trimen Cat. Flow. PL and Ferns Ceylon 

 (1885) 44; Plates Handb. Fl. Ceylon (1893) t. 531 Handb. FL Ceylon 



2 (1894) 353- — Froehner in Notizbl. d. Kgl. Bot. Mus. (1897) 231. — 

 K. Schum. in Engl, and Prantl Nat. Pflanzenfam. 4, Abt. 4, Nachtr. 

 (1897) 315- — Froehner in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. (1898) 252, 256. — Lecomte 

 Le Cafe (1899) 4. — Valeton in Bull. Inst. Bot. Buitenz. 7 (1901) 7, 

 17-20. — Cornaillac El Cafe, la Vainilla, el Cacao, etc. (1903) 20. 



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

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



Cojfea hengalemis Heyne ex Roem. and Schult. S5^st. Veg. 5 

 (1819) 200. 



A glabrous shrub bearing horizontal, dichotomous, slender branches. 

 Leaves deciduous, 12.5 cm. long by 7.5 cm. wide as a maximum 

 but usually much smaller, not glossy, opposite, broadly ovate or 

 elliptic, obtusely acuminate, entire, spreading, remote, submembrana- 

 ceous; veins (especially in the young leaves) hairy beneath, base 

 rounded or acute, always contracted into a very short petiole with 

 persistent subulate (awl-shaped) stipules. Flowers axillary, or 

 more commonly at the terminus of short shoots with leaf-like bracts. 



