N. O. OOCURBITAOE.®. 
655 
celled, globose, fin. diam., “ on bracteolate pedicels, fin. long,” 
says Brandis. Seeds few, vertically imbircate, much compressed. 
Uses : — The berries of this tree are known as “wild coffee.” 
The roasted and powdered seeds were submitted to Brig-Gen. 
A. Kenney Herbert, a great authority on Indian cookery, and 
he reported as follows : — The percolated liquor had a remarkably 
pleasant taste, having a marked flavour of coffee. Indeed, the 
only difference I could detect was this : the liquor was not 
so dark in tint as coffee, being more golden-brown than 
dark brown, and the beverage brewed seemed not quite so 
strong as would have been produced by a similar quantity 
of coffee powder. There can be no doubt of the distinct coffee- 
like properties of this powder, and the absence of any twang 
or conflicting flavour to mar its pleasant taste (Pharmaco- 
graphia Tndica, Yol. II., p. 226). 
607. Ccmthium didymum, Roxb. h.f.b.i., ill. 132 ; 
Roxb. 180. 
Syn. : — Plectornia didynia, Kurz, Psydrax dicoccos, Qceru. 
Vern. : — Garbhagojba (Santal) ; Yerkoli (Tam.) ; Yellal, 
porawa-mara, galkaranda (Kan.). 
Habitat : — Sikkim Himalaya, and distributed east to tile 
KhSsia and Jayntea Mountains. Also met with in Chutia 
Nagpur and in the Western Peninsula, from the Concan south- 
wards, 
A stout, evergreen, unarmed glabrous shrub, Leaves very 
variable, 2-6 by f-4in., very coriaceous, polished above, usually 
obtusely caudate-acuminate, base acute obtuse or even cordate, 
nerve-axils eglandular ; petiole f-fin. Cymes compressed, 
subsessile or on a short peduncle, f-lin., sometimes puberulous. 
Bracts short or 0. Flowers 5-merous. Calyx truncate or ob- 
scurely toothed. Corolla campanulate, tube xV-fin. ; lobes 5, 
subacute. Style glabrous ; stigma subquadrate, notched or 
2-fid. Fruit very variable, f-fin. globose or ellipsoid or obovoid 
compressed, subdidymous, putamen rugose. (J. D. Hooker). 
