CHAPTER III 



Genus COFFEA L.: Section I: EUCOFFEA Hook. f. 



Cojfea Wightiana Wall. 



Coffea fragrans Wall, ex Hook. f. 



Coffea travancorensis Wight & Arn. 



Cojfea bengalensis Heyne ex Roem. & Schult. 



Cojfea racemosa Lour. 



Cojfea Ibo Froehner 



Cojfea stenophylla G. Don 



Cojfea arabica L. 



Cojfea congensis Froehner 



Cojfea mauritiana Lam. 



Cojfea Zanguebarice Lour. 



Cojfea Swynnertonii S. Moore 



Coffea canephora Pierre 



Coffea liberica Bull 



Cojfea robusta Linden 



Coffea excelsa Chev. 



Cojfea Wightiana Wall. Cat. (1832) No. 6246. 



A small, copiously branched, almost spinescent bush with whitish 

 bark. Branches rigid, stout, divaricate, often suppressed and very 

 short, sometimes slender; young shoots puberulous. Leaves small, 

 1.25 cm. wide by 3.75 cm. long, subsessile or nearly sessile, oval, 

 tapering toward the base, obtuse, glabrous or woolly in axils of 

 veins beneath, subcoriaceous, pale when dry; stipules spinescent, 

 short, sharply pointed, rigid, persistent, becoming small curved 

 prickles, especially on the lateral branches. Flowers solitary, ses- 

 sile, appear before the leaves, on short lateral branches, 5-merous, 

 \try sweetly scented, w^hite ; corolla-lobes much narrower than in 

 C. bengalensis Heyne ex Roem. & Schult.; corolla-tube about 1.25 

 cm. long, lobes oblong-oval, obtuse, slightly over one-half the length 



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