Canthium. PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 535: 
Kanden-kara, Rheed. Mal. v.71. t. 36. 
Webera tetrandra, Wiild. spec. i, 1224. 
Teling. Balusoo- ka. 
This is one of the most common, scragey, thorny bushes on. 
the coast ; every soil and situation suits it. Flowering time 
the hot season; the seeds ripen in September. . 
Trunk scarcely any, but branches innumerable, the small- 
_ersare regularly cross-armed, and spreading. Thorns sim- 
ple, opposite, above the axills, spreading, cross-armed, very. 
strong and very sharp; in luxuriant plants they are sometimes 
three-fold. Leaves on the young shoots opposite, on the older 
_ branchlets fascicled, short-petioled, reflexed, ovate, entire, 
smooth ; size various.. Stipules connecting, subulate. Um- 
bellets, or rather racemes opposite, below the thorns, small, 
about the length of the leaves, Peduncles and pedicels smooth, 
round, Flowers small, yellow. Calyx above, four-toothed ; 
teeth acute ; permanent. Corol one-petalled.. Tube-gibbous, 
short ; mouth downy. Border four-parted ; segments ovate, 
expanded. Filaments four, in the mouth of the corol. An-~ 
thers ovate. Germ inferior, elobular, two-celled, with one ovw- 
lum in each attached to the axis above its middle, Style ra- 
ther longer than the tube of the corol, Stigma headed. Drupe 
obcordate, laterally compressed a little witha hollow on each 
side, size of a cherry, crowned with the remaining calyx, 
‘fleshy, smooth, yellow, two-celled. uts two, one in each cell, 
oblong, one-celled. Embry oinverse, sub-cylindric, a little 
curved, and furnished with a soft amygdaline perisperm. 
‘Obs, The bush makes excellent fences. The ripe fruit is 
eaten by the natives. The leaves are universally eaten in curs 
ries ; on that account cone — hem she saidigiwal cmaciiee 
which means <n Spa Panwit® ben sowie. 
(4,.C, dilieiac Gert. carp. iii. 94, t, 196. : 
Sub-arboreous, unarmed. Leaves oblong saith oval, Cymer 
axillary, sub-sessile. Flowers pentardrous. Style longer than. 
the cylindric tube of the corol, with a qdaged stigma. 
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