LXXIV. RUBIACE^E. 
Ill 
Cofjea .] 
Cultivated at one time largely were C. liberica, C. arabica, 
C. robusta. 
Corolla i in. long, white. 
Leaves large coriaceous . . . . . . (i) C. malayana 
Corolla -2 in. long, green . . . . . . (2) C. viridiflora 
Leaves thin, small; flowers white . . . (3) C. madurensis 
(1) C. malayana Ridl. Journ. Roy. As. Soc. S. Br. 61, p. 19. 
Shrub 10 to 15 ft. tall. Branches 4-angled. Leaves elliptic- 
acuminate, base narrowed; nerves 13 pairs; 7 to 8 in. long, 2*5 to 
3 in. wide. Stipules shining, tube cartilaginous with a long point 
•25 in. long. Flowers 14 sessile in a fascicle. Calyx-tube entire. 
Corolla 1 in. long, white, lobes 5, narrow-linear, -25 in. long. Fruit 
small, globose. Seed 1, globose. Hab. Forests. Johor, Gunong 
Pantai. Selangor and Bukit Hitam; Kwala Lumpur. Negri 
Sembilan, Gunong Berumban; Bukit Kandang (Cantley); Tampin 
Hill (Goodenough). Native names : Chiapet; Semangkok Jantan; 
Gading Jantan. 
Coffee beans from this plant have been exhibited at one of the local 
exhibitions, and were mistaken by the judges for those of C. arabica. I 
have only seen a few fruits, and those all with one globose seed. 
(2) C. viridiflora Ridl. Journ. Roy. /Is. Soc. S. Br. 79, p. 82. 
Glabrous shrub 12 to 14 ft. tall. Leaves fleshy membranous, 
elliptic-oblong cuspidate, base cuneate, decurrent on the petiole; 
nerves 8 to 9 pairs; 8 in. long, 3 in. wide; petioles *75 in. long. 
Flowers green in axillary sessile or shortly peduncled heads. 
Calyces connate, sessile. Corolla *2 in. long, tube cylindric, lobes 
linear acuminate 4, half as long; anthers shortly exsert. Fruit 
globose, -3 in. through, crowned with circular calyx scar. Seeds 2, 
semi-oblong, -2 in. long. Hab. Woods. Selangor, Batu Caves 
(Ridley). Perak, Waterloo (Curtis). 
(3) C. madurensis Teysm. and Binn. Hort. Bogor. 1866, p. 112; 
Koorders, Teysmannia, 1900, p. 30, t. 8. 
A shrub. Leaves thin, elliptic bluntly acuminate, base cuneate; 
nerves 4 pairs, 3 to 3-5 in. long, 1*5 in. wide; petioles -i in. long. 
Stipules from a broad base with a setaceous tip. Flowers usually 
solitary on a very short peduncle with linear setaceous bracts. 
Calyx very short, *05 in. long. Corolla white, tube slender cylindric, 
*5 in. long, lobes oblong acute, -25 in. long. Stamens exsert at 
tip. Fruit didymous, *3 in. long; pericarp crustaceous 2-celled, 
2-seeded. Hab. Kelantan, village at Kota Bharu (Ridley). Dis- 
irib. Madura. 
43 . GARDENIOPSIS, Miq. 
A shrub, glabrous. Leaves very coriaceous, oblanceolate. 
Stipules lanceolate. Flowers few, sessile in axillary clusters, no 
bracts. Calyx small, cylindric, lobes 5, spreading. Corolla 1 in. 
long, tube thick, cylindric, short lobes large ovate, imbricate. 
