Cansjera. TETRANDRIA MONOGYNIA, 44) 
8. E. arborea, R. 
Arboreous. Branchlets often spinous, neAe ors 
long and broad-lanceolate, entire, silvery underneath. Flow- 
ers in axillary fascicles, Fruit cylindrically oblong. 
Alarge tree, native of the Garrow Hills, and there called 
Sheu-Shong. Flowering time December, The fruit shaped 
like an olive, but much larger; it is eaten by the natives 
when ripe, which it is generally in March and April. 
CANSJERA. Juss. gen. ed. Ust. 85. 
Calyzx large, gibbous, four-toothed. Corol none. Nectary 
four-petalled, embracing the germ, and of the same i 
Berry superior, one-seeded. ¥ 
» 1, C. scandens. Roxb. Corom. ii. N. 103. eet ol ogi 
Shrubby, scandent. Leaves alternate, Spikes axillary. 
Scheru-valli caniram. Rheed. Mal. vii. p. 7. t. 4. i 
agora caniram, ibid, p. Bite 2: ener to be the same 
plant. — Ma 
ae! anges woody ctinbing shrub a native of the Circar 
mountains, © 
_ Leaves. niente seis tones, Resin, Leeadiibeaal 
late, smooth, entire, about three inches long, and one broad. 
Spikes axillary, generally single, short, every where covered 
with flowers, Bractes solitary, small, oval, one-flowered, 
Flowers small, sessile, yellow. Calyx inferior, one-leaved, 
-gibbous; mouth four-toothed. Corol none, except the calyx, 
or nectary be accounted one, Nectary four-leaved 3 leafleis 
cordate, acute, half the length of the calyx, inserted round 
the base of the germ and embracing it. Filaments four, , ins 
serted into the base of the calyx, and rather shorter than it. 
‘Anthe ry OV vula within the calyx. Berry oblong, smooth, red, 
ine ie oe iee-oele: _—* vis like the 
berry. | 
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