»Oanthium. ] LXXV. RUBIACES®. (J. D. Hooker.) 135 
12. C. angustifolium, Roxb. FI. Ind. i. 533; spinescent, branches di- 
varicate, leaves ovate or elliptic-lanceolate obtusely caudate-acuminate, petioles 
: and very short fascicled pedicels glabrous, flowers 5-merous, fruit suborbicular 
< compressed. DC. Prodr. iv. 474. C. Leschenaultii, W. § A. Prodr. 426; Wt. 
Te. t. 826; Dalz. $ Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 113; Wall. Cat. 8414. Dondisia 
Leschenaultii, DC. J. o, 469. Rubiacea, Wall. Cat. 8308.—Rheede Hort. Mai. 
vii. t. 17. 
Western PENINSULA, on the coast and hills from Belgaum southwards; the Sux- 
DERBUNDS, Sirngr, and Currracone, Roxburgh, &c. 
Very near indeed to C. Rheedii, and I expect only a glabrous variety; the fruit 
_and flowers are the same. I find traces of pubescence in the shoots of Bengal speci- 
mens, 
13. C. macrocarpum, Thw. Enum. 152; spinescent, pubescent, leaves 
„ovate or elliptic-lanceolate acuminate, cymes shortly peduncled, flowers 5- 
merous pedicelled, fruit large subglobose, putamen very thick and bony undulate 
- externally rugose internally. 
Cryton; Hantani, alt. 3000 ft., Thwaites. 
A subseandent shrub; short petioles and nerves rufous-tomentose. Leaves 2-8 in., 
dull green when dry, base rounded; petiole ẹ in.; stipules minute. Cyme subumbel- 
lately branched, pubescent; peduncles about $ in., pedicels 1-1 in. Calyx 5-toothed. 
Corolla dirty white; lobes lanceolate, rather longer than the tube. Fruit 1 in. 
usually irregular in form, only one carpel maturing.—I have seen no flowers, nor 
spines. 
14. C. campanulatum, Tw. Enum. 153; spinescent, glabrous, leaves 
small ovate or elliptic obtuse, pedicels 1-4 slender, flowers 5-merous, corolla 
-campanulate. Bedd. Fl. Sylv., For. Man. 134/6. 
Cryton; Deltotte, in the central province, alt. 3000 ft., Thwaites. 
A subscandent shrub ; branches slender, rough, youngest scaberulous ; spines small, 
straight. Leaves 2-14 in., green when dry, coriaceous ; petiole 4; in. ; stipules minute. 
Pedicels } in.; flowers quite glabrous. Calya-lobes short, acute. Corolla } in. diam., 
tube shorter than the acuminate lobes. Stigma obeonie with a truncate base, entire. 
Fruit the size of a pea (not seen by me). 
15. ©. parvifolium, Roxb. Hort. Beng. 15; Fl. Ind. i. 594; spines 
straight, branches slender and petioles and leaves beneath or on both surfaces 
hirsute, leaves small ovate or elliptic subacute, flowers 5-merous subsessile, fruit 
small suborbicular compressed, putamen tubercled. DC. Prodr. iv. 474. C. 
scandens, Blume Bijd. 966; DC. l. c. 475. Rubiacea, Wall. Cat. 8288 B. 
: Gardenia rigida, Wall. Cat. 8257 in part. 
Benar; Monghir, Hamilton, Kuasta Mrs, alt. 2-3000 ft., J. D. H. 4. T. PO. B. 
Clarke. Currraaoxa, Wallich, J. D. H. 4 T. T. Prov, Kurz.—Disrem. Malayan 
Archipelago, S. China. 
A rambling shrub with spreading slender pubescent or hirsute branches; spines 
slender, supra-axillary. Leaves 1-13 in., green when dry; petiole very short ; stipules 
ovate-lanceolate. Calyx minutely 5-toothed. Corolla-tube subglobose, glabrous ; teeth 
lanceolate, acute. Disk villous. Fruit jin. diam., like that of C. Rheedii 
16. C. horridum, Blume Bijd. 966; spines hooked, branches slender 
petioles and leaves beneath pubescent or hirsute, leaves small ovate subacute, 
flowers 5-merous subsessile, fruit large subglobose. DC. Prodr. iv. 474; Kurs 
For. Fi. ii. 86 (Plectronia). O. zizyphinum, Wall. Cat. S288 A. O. Hypti- 
. anthera rhamnoides, Morr. & Zoll. Syst. Verh. 60. Dondisia horrida, Korth, in 
Ned. Kruidk. Arch, ii. 236. 
TENASSERIM, Gomez; SixaAPoRE and Pexaxo, Wallich, &e.—DIstTRIB, Malay Ar- 
- ehipelago, Philippine Islands. 
Differs from C. parvifolium only in the shorter hooked compressed spines and much 
