68 COFFEE 



Froehner in Notizbl. K. Bot. Mus. 7 (1897) 234. — K. Schum. in Engl. 

 & Prantl Nat. Pflanzenfam. 4, Abt. 4, Nachtr. (1897) 3i5- — Raoul 

 Cult. Cafeier in Man. Cult. Trop. de Raoul & Sagot pt. i, 2 (1897) 

 229, 232. — Froehner in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. 25 (1898) 273. — Lecomte Le 

 Cafe (1899) 39. — Valeton in Bull. Inst. Bot. Buitenz. 7 (1901) 20. — 

 Cornaillac El Cafe, la Vainilla, el Cacao, etc. (1903) 35. 



Economic and Cultural References: — Heraud Nouveau Diet. PI. Med. 

 (1884) 145.— Lanessan PL Util. Col. Frang. (1886) 42, 206.— Corre & 

 Lejanne Mat. Med. (1887) 60. — Reprint from Maurit. Planter's Gaz. 

 in Trop. Agric. 15 (1895) 79. — Sebire Les PL Util. Senegal (1899) 179. 

 — Van Wijk Diet. PL Names i (1911) 346. — Hartwich Die Mensch- 

 lich. Genuszm. (1911) 274, 300, 825. 



Coffea Zanquebariae Lour. Fl. Cochinch, i (1790) 145. 



A shrub or small tree, 1.8 M. high, glabrous, erect, closely branched. 

 Branches cinereous, rather thick, short, subterete ; older ones with 

 gray bark bearing transverse and longitudinal fissures; younger twigs 

 brown, compressed. Leaves glabrous, oval or obovate, 3.5 cm. to 6 

 cm. wide, 5 cm. to 1 1 cm. long, obtuse or shortly pointed (4 mm.) 

 cuneiform at base, chartaceous; lateral veins 5 to 8 pairs of the first 

 rank with little hairy tufts in the axils ; upper side dull ; glossy below ; 

 petiole 0.2 cm. to 0.62 cm. long; stipules ovate apiculate, connate at 

 the base, 0.2 cm. to 0.3 cm. long. Flowers white, axillary, i to 3 

 in a cluster, hexamerous or heptamerous, shortly pedicellate. Caly- 

 culus extending beyond the smooth calyx-margin; bracteoles deltoid 

 or subtruncate, apiculate, all falling short of the minute calyx-limb. 

 Fruit ovate or oblong, dark red; stem of fruit elongates after 

 flowering and becomes as long as fruit which is 1.25 cm. to 1.5 

 cm. long; dark red fruit turns black or brownish-black when dried; 

 capitate disk ; longitudinally nerved. 



Diagnostic Characters of the Species: — Leaves chartaceous, trans- 

 verse section shows considerably elongated but rarely branched 

 sclerencyhma ; fruit-pedicel as long as the fruit; fruit longitudinally 

 nerved; cells of pulp layers are radically elongated; seeds resemble 

 C. arahica L. in size and form. 



Synonymy: — Amazona Africana Spreng. Syst. Veg. 2 (1825) 126; 

 Hexepta axillaris Raf. Sylva Tellur. (1838) 164. 



Common Names: — Zanzibar Coffee. 



Geographical Distribution: — Zanzibar coast; Mozambique. 



History : — This species is indigenous in German East Africa along 

 the Zanzibar coast. It was introduced into Mozambique by the 



