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to me by the U. S. Nat. Herb., Smithsonian Institution, Washing- 

 ton, D. C. 



C. Ugustroides S. Moore is the plant which yields the so-called 

 Chirinda coffee. It forms the main undergrowth of the Chipete 

 Forest Patch. The crop is always small, although heavier in alter- 

 nate years. The dense shade under which most of it grows is 

 prejudicial to heavy cropping. The fruits are commonly eaten by the 

 forest bulbuls and robins as well as by the baboons and the natives. 

 This coffee is much used, and it is considered to be excellent by the 

 natives of Gazaland. 



Use: — The seeds are used as a substitute for the seeds of C, 

 arabica L. 



Bibliography: — S. Moore in Journ. Linn. Soc. Bot. 40 (191 1) 94. 



Coffea khasiana Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. 3 (1882) 154. 



A rambling shrub or small tree with gray, somewhat transversely 

 fissured bark. Branches and leaf-veins on the lower surface are 

 puberulous; younger branches bear appressed hairs. Leaves 7.5 cm. 

 to 20 cm. long by 2.5 cm. to 7.5 cm. wide, elliptic-lanceolate, caudate- 

 acuminate; 7 to 8 paired lateral veins given off at a very oblique 

 angle from the midrib, sometimes with abundant short hairs on 

 the under surface; greenish when dry; apex attenuated, 1.5 cm. to 

 3.0 cm. long; lamina dull, membranaceous; petiole short, 0.62 cm. 

 long; stipules triangular, broad at the base, apex attenuated, making 

 the total length of the stipule about i cm.. Flowers In very shortly- 

 branjhed, pubescent cymes; pedicel exceedingly short with a cup 

 of connate bracteoles; corolla 0.7 cm. long, yellowish; tube cylin- 

 drical, 0.4 cm. long; mouth villous; lobes acute, ovate, commonly 

 shorter than the tube; calyx quadridentate, lobes acute, glabrous, 

 teeth erect; calyculus 0.25 cm. long, and extending beyond the 0.5 

 mm. high, quadridentate margin of the calyx. Style short; arms 

 linear. Anthers 0.15 cm. long, projecting beyond the corolla-tube. 

 The 1.2 mm. long stigmatic processes of the 0.5 cm. long style, project 

 beyond the corolla-tube. Fruit-pedicel short; globose In form, 

 smooth, longer than wide, about i cm. long by 0.6 cm. wide, with 

 hairy, persistent calyx-teeth. Seeds orbicular, ventrally plane or 

 rarely concave. 



Diagnostic Characters of the Species: — Mouth of the corolla-tube 



