EUCOFFEA HOOK. F. 25 



Flowers i to 3 together, 5-6-merous, and appear before the leaves; 

 flowers fragrant, pure white, large 2.5 cm. to 3.75 cm. in diameter; 

 corolla hypocrateriform ; corolla-tube i'.25 cm. to 3.75 cm. long; 

 lobes obovate-oblong; calyx-tube turbinate, downy, limb short, of 

 5 to many laciniated lobes, with their segments clavated, unequal. 

 Anthers linear, sessile, extrorsely attached a little below the acumi- 

 nate apex, to the mouth of corolla; only the points visible above 

 the tube. Ovary fleshy, 2-celled; style included; stigma large, bi- 

 partite. Fruit black, size of a small cherry, ovoid-oblong, 1.25 cm. 

 in diameter, not broader than long, didymous when 2-seeded ; pedicel 

 short. 



Diagnostic Characters of the Species: — Twigs brown or whitish. 

 Leaves usually broadly-elliptic with very greatly narrowed obtuse 

 point, green when dry; petiole very short. Two subulate leaf-like 

 bracts at the base of each flower. Calyx-limb with many, commonly 

 ten, glandular teeth. Fruit not broader than long. 



Synonymy: — Coffea Horsfieldiana Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. 2 (1856- 

 1859) 308. — Valeton in Bull. Inst. Bot. Buitenz. 7 (1901) 17. 



Common Name: — Kath-jahi (Hindu). 



Geographical Distribution: — Central and Southern India; Burma; 

 Tropical Himalaya, from Kumaon to Mishmi up to 900 M.; Bengal; 

 Assam; Silhet; Chittagong; Tenasserim (lower half); Siam; Java; 

 Samarang (Miquel). 



History: — Coffea bengaletisis Heyne ex Roem. and Schult. of the 

 eastern tropics is much more widely distributed than its close allies 

 Coffea Wiffhtiana Wall., Coffea fragrans Wall, ex Hook, f., and 

 Coffea travancorensis Wight and Arn. This species was cultivated 

 on a large scale prior to the introduction of Coffea arabica L. It 

 produces small beans of an inferior value and is no longer culti- 

 vated extensively, although used by the natives wherever it is found 

 locally. 



Use: — As a substitute for Coffea arabica L. 



Bibliography: — Roxb. Hort. Bengal. (1814) 15. — Heyne ex Roem. 

 and Schult. Syst. Veg. 5 (1819) 200. — Roth Nov. Spec. (1821) 148. — 

 Moon Cat. PI. Ceylon (1824) 15.— Roxb. Fl. Ind. 2 (1824) 194.— 

 Spreng. Syst. Veg. i (1825) 755. — DC. Prodr. 4 (1830) 499. — Wall. 

 Cat. (1832) no. 6244. — Roxb. Fl. Ind. ed. 2, i (1832) 540. — Don G. 

 Gen. Hist. Dichlam. PL 3 (1834) 581.— Wight and Arn. Prodr. i 

 (1834) 435.— Bot. Mag. 82 (1856) t. 4917.— Miq. Ann. Mus. Lugd. 



