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long. Calyx 0.3 mm. long. Corolla-tube 7 mm. long by 1.5 mm. 

 wide at the base, 4.5 mm. wide at throat ; lobes not over 9 mm. long. 

 Filaments 1.5 mm. long, anthers 5 to 6 mm. long. Style 11 mm. long, 

 stigmatic arms 5 mm. long. Fruit 9 mm. long, 6.5 mm. wide; seeds 

 5.5 mm. long, dark-gray. 



Common Name: — Inyambane Coffee. 



Geographical Distribution : — Chirinda at 900 M. ; Madanda for- 

 ests at 120 M.; Portuguese East Africa. 



History: — Coffea Swynnertoiiii S. Moore was collected and de- 

 scribed by Mr. Moore and published in the Journal of the Linn. 

 Soc. Bot. 40 (1911) 95. 



This species is very similar to C. stenophylla G. Don from which 

 it differs chiefly in the much smaller and non caudate-acuminate 

 leaves, the short stipules, the short-toothed calyculus, and the smaller 

 berries and seeds. Mr. Moore's specimen No. 2133 is the plant 

 in flower; and No. 578 is surm.ised by Mr. Swynnerton, and ac- 

 cording to the publication of the Linnaean Society correctly so, to be 

 the fruiting stage; No. 579 (in fruit) from the vicinity of the 

 mouth of the Buzi river where the settlers designate an identical 

 form — often with somewhat larger leaves (4.5 cm. long by 2 cm. 

 wide) than is accredited in the original species description — as Iny- 

 ambane coffee. This coffee grows wild in quantities along the Jua- 

 baba River in Portuguese East Africa, at an altitude of about 300 

 metres. Seed was brought from this region a few years ago; and 

 the beverage prepared from these berries is said to be of excellent 

 quality and much used by the settlers. 



Use: — As a substitute for the seeds of C. arabica L. 



Bibliography: — Moore in Journ. Linn. Soc. Bot. 40 (1911) 95. 



Coffea canephora Pierre ex Froehner in Notizbl. d. Kgl. Bot. 

 Mus. 7 (1897) 233, 237. 



A tree or shrub bearing dark brownish gray, faint, longitudinally 

 striated branches. Leaves nearly elliptical, narrowed at both extremi- 

 ties about 17 cm. wide and 25 cm. long (in its varieties, sometimes 

 varying 15 cm. to 30 cm. long by 5 cm. to 11 cm.) in size; upper side 

 glossy, dark green; lower side more yellow; 13 paired veins of the 

 first order, and the finely netted venation is also prominent on lower 

 side as well as the paired veins; petiole about 1.5 cm. long. Stipules 



