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CANTHIUM dubium. 
Spurious Chinese Canthium. 
TETRANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Nat. ord. Rubiaceje. 
CANTHIUM .— Calyx 5-fidus. Corolla tubulosa brevis 5-fida patens. 
Stamina non exserta. Stigma capitatum. Bacca ovata coronata, aut 
subrotunda non coronata, 2-locularis 2-sperma, seminibus hinc planis 
1-sidcis, ind& convexis. Jass. in mem. mas. 6. 380. 
C. dubium; foliis oblongo-lanceolatis coriaceis, stipulis ovatis acuminatis, 
floribus axillaribus subsessilibus calyculatis tetrandris, stigmate bifido. 
Frutex humilis, ramosus, ramis subtetragonis,glabris,junioribus viridibus , 
adultis cinnamomeis. Folia petiolata, lanceolata, v. oblongo-lanceolata, acuta , 
coriacea. Stipulee ovatee acuminates. Flores axillares, congesti, calyculo 
sericeo inserti , parvi, pallide virides. Calyx subcampanulatus, 4 -dentatus, 
pubescens. Corolla 4 -Jida, intUs pilosa, laciniis ovatis patentibus carnosis. 
Stamina 4, subsessilia, exserta, fauce inserta; anther® subsagittatce. Ova¬ 
rium biloculare, loculis dispermis, ovulis collateralibus ascendentibus. Stylus 
Jiliformis tubi longitudine. Stigma bijidum. 
If we have some doubt of the propriety ot lefening tho 
last plant to Pyrethrum, we have, it possible, yet greatei 
hesitation in placing the present subject in the genus 
Canthium, with which it agrees indeed in habit, but hom 
which it seems essentially distinguished by its bifid stigma. 
But, in the absence of all knowledge of its fruit, we are 
unable to assign it a more satisfactory situation. 
It is a native of China, whence it was sent to the 
Horticultural Society, in 1824, by Mr. J. D. Parks. It 
flowered in the stove, in March last, and possesses no ot lei 
claim to notice than its extreme rarity. 
In the stove it forms a low bush, with squarish, smooth 
branches, of which the youngest are green, and the old 
ones cinnamon-coloured. Leaves stalked, lanceo a e, oi 
