534. PENTANDRIA MONOGYNITA, Canthium. 
slender, firm, round and smooth, Spines axillary, expanding. 
Leaves on the youngest shoots in single, opposite pairs ; on 
the older branchlets fascicled ; all are short-petioled, lanceo- 
late, entire, long, taper-pointed, firm and polished, from one 
inch to two and a half long, and half or three-quarters of an 
inch broad, Stipules interfoliaceous, ensiform.- Flowers axilla- 
ry, several together, small, short-peduncled, greenish yellow. 
Calyx acetabuliform, five-angled, five-toothed, Corol ; tube — 
short and gibbous; border of five lanceolate segments. %- 
laments five, from the fissures of the corol, short. Anthers li- 
near, erect, equalling the border of the corol. Germ inferior, 
turbinate, two-celled, with one ovulum in each, attached to 
the upper part of the partition. Style the length of the corol. © 
Stigma large, with a bifid apex. Drupe inferior, sub-rotund, 
apex retuse, as in C. parviflorum, smooth, size of a black cur-’ 
rant, when ripe yellow, two-celled, ~~ one of the oa is- 
eens abortive, mnTbal 3 HELE, 
2. C. parvifolium, R. 
Shrubby, armed, hairy. Leaves oval, entire. Flowers axil-' 
lary, crowded, pentandrous; tube of the corol globular. 
The shape of the leaves alone forbids the supposing of this 
to be Plukenet’s 4Amaranthoides indicum, verticillatum, Pa- 
rietarie hirsutis foliis aculeatum, &c. Alm, 27, t. 133. f.3.° 
Consequently it is neither Monetia diacantha, Willd. apets = F 
670. nor Azima diacantha, Lamark, Encyclop. i. 343... 
Is a middling-sized, very rigid, ramous shrub, the ieaadee: 
- shoots and under side of the leaves hairy, The inside of the 
tube of the corol is surrounded with a circle of straight, white 
bristles of its own length, inserted round its mouth; and: 
pointing to its bottom, Flowering time the rainy season, 
3. C, es Goan gs Corom. i. 3. 0.51, Geert. sem. iii. 
= 196. | 3 Lam 
