134 LXXV. RUBIACEZ. (J. D. Hooker.) [ Canthium. 
jn. long.—Miquel says the flowers are 4-5-merous; all other authors say 5-merous, as 
I find them. 
** Unarmed ; flowers 4-merous. 
8, C. travancoricum, Bedd. Ic. Pl. Ind. Or. t. 239; unarmed, 
glabrous, leaves long-petioled ovate obtusely acuminate, cymes long-peduncled, 
branches slender. 
TRAVANCORE and TinEVELLY hills; Beddome. 
A tree; branchlets woody with rough bark. eaves clustered on short lateral 
shoots, 13-2 in., bright green beneath when dry; petiole very slender, A in.; stipules 
triangular with long subulate points. Peduncle of eyme sometimes 1 in., stout and 
compressed, or shorter or 0; branches very slender. Flowers very small, jj; in, diam. 
Calyx-tecth subulate. — Corolla-tube shortly campanulate. Stigma capitate. Fruit 
unknown, 
9. C. gracilipes, Kurz in Journ. As, Soc, 1872, ii. 314; For. Fl. ii. 96 
(Canthium); unarmed, short petioles and nerves beneath puberulous, leaves 
elliptic obtusely acuminate, flowers 4-merous solitary or in pairs, pedicels capil- 
lary, fruit subquadrately didymous or reniform, pyrenes rugose thinly woody 
remote. 
ANDAMAN IsrANDS; rather frequent, Kurz. 
Shrubby ; pubescence fulvous; branches slender. Leaves 3-5 by 1j-2 in., green 
when dry, membranous; nerves very slender; petiole very short; stipules finely 
acuminate. Flowers very. small; pedicels 1-2 in., hairy, arising from very short 
shoots, Calyxr-teeth subulate. Fruit 4 in. across, with a very broad sinus at top, 
blueish-black. 
*** Armed; stamens 4 or 5. 
10. C. puberulum, Thw. mss.; spinescent, pubescent, leaves small 
elliptic acute, peduncles fascicled, flowers 4—5-merous, calyx-lobes long recurved, 
corolla-tube broadly campanulate. 
CxvLoN; central province, Thwaites (C. P. 3995). 
Branches slender, elongate; spines short, straight. Leaves 2-1 in., bright green 
when dry, finely pubescent ou both surfaces; petiole short; stipules with slender 
points. Peduncles always bracteate, 1-3-flowered, 4-4 in., fulvous pubescent, as aro 
the bracts and calyx. Calyx-iube campanulate; lobes longer than the corolla, nar- 
rowlylaneeolate. Corolla-tube } in., lobes acute. Style glabrous ; stigma subglobose. 
Fruit unknown. 
11. C. Rheedii, DC. Prodr. iv. 474; spinescent, shining, branches divari- 
cate, leaves ovate obtusely caudate-acuminate, petiole and very short fascicled 
pedicels pubescent, flowers 5-merous, fruit suborbicular compressed. W. § A. 
Prodr. 426; Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 113. Webera tetrandra, Wall. Cat. 8265 
A. in part; Rheede Hort. Mal. v. t. 97. 
WESTERN PENINSULA; from the Concan southwards.  Crkvrow; southern and 
central part. 
Shrubby, “ scandent ” (Dalzell); branches slender, short, pubescent ; spines short, 
slightly recurved. eaves 1-4} by 1-2 in. dark brown or black when dry, rarely 
green; base rounded, sometimes acute or cordate; nerve-axils sometimes hairy; 
petiole very short and triangular; stipules appressed, hairy. — Pedicels 4-2 in., shorter 
than the flowers. Calya-teeth minute. Corolla-tube very short and broad ; lobes lan- 
ceolate, acuminate, forming a long beak in bud, glabrous, Style hairy. Fruit 4 in. 
diam., subdidymous, truncate with a broad sinus above; pyrenes crustaceous, contigu- 
ous.— Wight & Arnott (Prodr. 427) have a var. B with the under surface of the leaves 
sprinkled with hairs, and a var. y with cordate base to the leaves. Thwaites makes 
a var, ò minus for a very small-leaved form with straight ascending spines. 
