70 COFFEE 



Portuguese. This species has been cultivated and, in 1880, 9300 kg. 

 of excellent coffee-seeds were harvested in Nossibe. 

 Use: — As a substitute for C. arabica L. 



Bibliography: — Lour. Fl. Cochinch. i (1790) 145. — Lam. Encyc. 

 Suppl. 2 (1811) 15.— DC. Prodr. 4 (1830) 500.— G. Don Gen. Hist. 

 Dichlam. PL 3 (1834) 582. — Hiern in Trans. Linn. Soc. ser. 2 (1876) 

 172; in Oliver FL Trop. Afr. 3 (1877) 182. — Froehner in Notizbl. K. 

 Bot. Mus. (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. — Hiern Welw. Cat. 

 Afr. PL 2 (1898) 489.— Froehner in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. 25 (1898) 274.— 

 Lecomte Le Cafe (1899) 40. — Cornaillac El Cafe, la Vainilla, el 

 Cacao, etc. (1903) 36. — L. H. Bail. Stand. Cycl. Hort. 2 (1914) 823. 



Economic and Cultural References: — Lanessan PL Util. Col. Frang. 

 (1886) 883.— Sebire Les PL UtiL Senegal (1899) i79-— Hartwich Die 

 Menschlich. Genuszm. (1911) 273, 306. — Van Wijk Diet. PL Names 

 I (1911) 347. 



Coffea Swynnertonii S. Moore in Journ. Linn. Soc. Bot. 40 (1911) 



95. 



A greatly branched shrub, terete, bearing glabrous (viscid when 

 young) ash-colored bark, with transverse fissures. Leaves small, oblong 

 or oblong-lanceolate, obtuse, petiole short, attenuated; blade thinly 

 coriaceous, entirely glabrous on both sides; secondary veins of both 

 surfaces forming 5 or more ascending arches below, and spread out 

 above from the midrib to the margin, and considerably recurved; 

 stipules awl-shaped, widened at the base, rigid. Flowers synanthous, 

 axillary, often 2 to 4; pedicel short, with simple calyculus possessing 

 dentate margin; corolla smooth, funnel-shaped tube; lobes 8 to 9, 

 narrow, ovate-oblong, obtuse, very little longer than the tube; calyx- 

 limb very brief, obscurely denticulate; stamens 8 to 9, filaments ex- 

 serted, bearing 4-partite, shorter, oblong, obtuse anthers; style ex- 

 serted, elongated arms linear. Fruit berry-like, narrow, ovoid-oblong, 

 dry, 2-seeded. Perennial shrub, flowering in October and fruiting 

 in December. 



Diagnostic Characters of the Species: — Leaves vary from 2.5 cm. 

 by I cm. wide to 3.5 cm. long by 1.8 cm. wide in size, copiously 

 furnished with white microscopic punctures above; rather olive 

 color or brown above when dry, paler beneath; petiole about 2 mm. 

 long; stipules 2 mm. to 2.5 mm. long. Pedicel 1.5 mm. to 2 mm. 

 long. Calyculus scarcely i mm. long. Flowers white. Ovary i mm. 



