Hamiltonia.] BUBIACE^, 42& 



18. COFFEA, Linn. ; Fl. Brit. Ind. iii, 153. 



Shrubs with compressed branchlets. Leaves opposite, rarely in 

 threes ; stipules broad. ^ Flowers in axillary fascicles or cymes or 

 solitary, white or yellowish, often scented; bracteoles often connate. 

 Calyx-tube short ; limb short, often glandular, persistent. Corolla' 

 tube short or long ; lobes 4-7, spreading, twisted in bud. Anthers 

 4-7, sessile on the corolla-tube or throat, narrow, often recurved 

 and twisted. Ovary 2-celled ; style filiform, smooth, branches linear 

 or subulate ; ovules one in each cell, peltately attached to the 

 septum. Drwpe with 2 plano-convex or ventrally concave coriaceous 

 or cartilaginous pyrenes. Seeds plano-convex, concave or grooved 

 ventrally, albumen horny. — Species about 25, in the tropics of 

 the Old World. 



C. "bengalensis, Uoaib. Eort. Beng. 15; Fl. Ind. i, 540; W. ^ A. Prod. 

 435; Brand. For. Fl. 277; F.B.I, iii, 153; Kanjildl For. Fl. 8ch. Circ. 

 207; Gamble Man. Ind. Timb. 422. 



A small glabrous deciduous shrub with slender horizontal branches. 

 Leaves shortly petioled, up to 5 in. long-, but usually much smaller, 

 broadly ovate or elliptic, obtusely acuminate, rounded or acute at 

 the base, membranous, not shining, green when dry ; main lateral nerves 

 6-10 pair, pubescent on the nerves beneath ; stipules subulate, persis- 

 tent. Flowers axillary, 1-3-nate, sometimes appearing before the leaves, 

 1-11 in. across, pure white, fragrant. Calyx-limb with many glandular 

 teeth. Corolla-tube l-l^ in.; lobes obovate-oblong. Berry I in. 

 long, didymous when 2-seeded, purple. 



Dehra Dun, in shady places. Flowers in March and April. Disteib. 



Tropical Himalaya from Garhwal eastwards to Sikkim and Assam ;. 



also in Chittagong, Cent, and S. India and Burma, extending to 



Siam and Java. Very ornamental when in flower and often culrivated 



in gardens. 

 The true coffee-plant, Goffea arabica, L., is a native of Abyssinia and 



the Soudan. It is successfully grown in many parts of S. India. 



19. HAMILTONIA. Roxb. ; Fl. Brit. Ind. iii, 197. 



A hispid pubescent or glabrate erect trichotomously branched under- 

 shrub, fcetid when bruised, branches terete. ^ Leaves opposite, 

 petioled, nerves many, stout ; stipules intrapetiolar, short, acnte^ 

 persistent. Flowers small, in broad terminal trichotomously 

 branched panicled or subumbellate cymes, white or blue, sweet- 

 scented, bracteate and bracteolate. Calyx-tube ovoid ; limb of 4-6 

 subulate persistent segments. Corolla funnel-shaped, tube long; 



