13 LXXV. RUDIACEX. (J. D. Hooker.) [ Cauthium. 
larger fruit, which I have not seen, but which is described by Kurz as equalling a 
small cherry. 
17. ©. parviflorum, Lamk. Dict. i. 602; spinescent, glabrous, leaves. 
small ovate obovate or orbicular obtuse, cymes peduncled many-flowered, flowers 
4-merous, fruit suborbicular compressed emarginate at both ends, endocarp 
woody undulate. DC. Prodr.iv. 474; Gaertn. f. Fruct. t. 196, f. 3; Roxb. Cor. 
Pl. t. 57; Fl. Ind. i. 534; W. E A. Prodr. 426; Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 113; 
Wall. Cat. 8289, Webera tetrandra, Willd. Sp. Pl. i, 1224 excl. syn. Rheede; 
Wall, Cat, 8265 in part.—Rheede Hort. Mal. v. t, 36, , 
Western Penrysura; from the Conean southwards. Cryton; abundant up to 
4000 ft. 
A rigid shrub; branches often thiekly eovered with stout straight spines 1-2 in. 
long. Leaves usually crowded on shortened lateral shoots, 4—1 in., rather coriaceous, 
dirty green when dry, opaque, base cuneate ; petiole slender, A. A in.; stipules small 
with long euspidate points. Cymes 4-3 in.; pedunele and pedicel slender, short or 
long; flowers very small, yellowish, Calya-teeth minute. Corolla-tube subglobose ; 
lobes ovate. Style glabrous, stigma capitate. Fruit subquadrate or obcordate sub- 
didymous, } in. diam.—“ Spines sometimes three-fold " (Roxburgh). 
64. VANGUERIA, Juss. 
Characters of Canthium, but ovary 3-6- (usually 5-) celled, and fruit larger. 
—DistriB. Species about 30, in the tropics of the old world. 
V. spurts, Vahl (Wall. Cat. 8410), a native of Madagascar, a small tree resembling 
V. spinosa, but unarmed, is cultivated in India for the sake of its eatable fruit. 
l. V. spinosa, Rov). Fi. Ind. i. 536; spinescent, leaves glabrous villous 
or tomentose. Wall. Cat. 8409; DC. Prodr. iy. 454. V. mollis, Wall. Cat. 
8411. V. spinosa and V. pubescens, Kurz Por. Fi. ii. 84. V. edulis, Mig. in 
Herb, Hohenack, n. 127, not of Vahl. Pyrostria ? spinosa, Mig. Fl. Ind. Bat. 
ii, 813. Canthium, Wall, Cat. 8415, 8417. 
From NomruERN DrNaGaL to Canara, Prev, TENAssERIM, and BrgMa.— DisTRIB. 
Java. 
A small tree or large bush, with straight opposite simple or 3-nate spines. Leaves 
8-4 in., opposite or 3-nately whorled, ovate or oblong, acute or acuminate ; petiole 3-1 
in.; stipules cuspidate from a broad base, Cymes 1-13 in., shortly peduncled ; flowers 
greenish, pedieelled. Calyx 5-toothed. Corolla-tube subglobose; lobes triangular, 
acute, Style glabrous; stigma 4-5-lobed. Drupe 3 in. diam., subglobose or turbi- 
nate, smooth, fleshy ; pyrenes 4-5, woody, smooth.— Fruit eatable. bl 
Var. 1. spinosa proper; leaves glabrous or nearl y so. V. spinosá, Roxb. 
Var. 2. mollis, Wall. Cat. 8411 (sp.); leaves more or less pubescent or tomentoso- 
on both surfaces, V. pubescens, Kurz. 
0». MESOPTERA, loo. f. 
A tree; branches robust, terete. Leaves opposite, petioled, large and broad, 
very coriaceous, tomentose beneath ; nerves strong; stipules large, rigidly coria-- 
ceous, interpetiolar, one much larger than the other, obliquely oblong, very 
cbtuse, with strong parallel or subflabellate rerves, the other shorter, rounded. 
Flowers minute, in small dense axillary cymes, ebracteolate. Calyx-tube short, 
hemispheric, 5-toothed. Corolla-tube short; throat hairy ; lobes 5, short, acute, . 
valvate in bud. Stamens 5, on the corolla-throat ; filaments short subulate ; 
authers oblong, apiculate. Ovary 2-celled ; style short, stout, stigma capitate: 
10-lobed ; ovules 1 in each cell, attached to the septum, amphitropous ? Fruit 
small, 2-celled, didymous (or 1-celled and globose), smooth ; pericarp coriaceous 
with a thin fleshy covering, Seeds cup-shaped, embracing a thick horny projec-- 
tion from the middle of the inner angle of the cell, testa adnate to the dense- 
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