534 PENTANimiA monck.ynia. Canthium. 



slender, firm, round and smooth. Spines axillary, expanding. 

 Leaves on the youngest shoots in single, opposite pairs; on 

 the older branchlets fascicled ; nil are ^bort-petioled, hneeo- 

 late, entire, long, taper-pointed, firm and polished, from one 

 inch to two and ;t half long, and half or three qu irters of an 

 inch broad. Stipules interfoliaceous,ensiform. Flowers axilla- 

 ry, several together, small, short- ped uncled, greenish yellow. 

 Calyx acetabuliform, five-angled, five toothed. Corol ; lube 

 short and gibbous ; border of rive lanceolate segments. Fi- 

 laments live, from the fissures of the corol, short. Anthers li- 

 near, erect, equalling the border of the corol. Germ inferior, 

 turbinate, two-celled, with one ovuluin 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. parviflotum, smooth, size of a black cur- 

 rant, when ripe yellow, two-celled, though one of the cells is 

 frequently abortive. 



2. C. parvifolium. R. 



Shrubby, armed, hairy. Leaves oval, entire. Flowers axil- 

 lary, crowded, pentandrous; lube of the corol globular. 



The shape of the leaves alone forbids the supposing- of this 

 to be Plukenet's Jlmaranthoides indicum, vcrticillatum, Pa- 

 rietaria? hirsutis foliis aeuleatum, Sec. Aim. 27. /. 133.,/'. 3. 

 Consequently it is neither JMonetia diacantha, Willd. spec. i. 

 ()70. nor Jlzima diacantha, Lamar k, Encyclop. i. 343. 



Is a middling-sized, very rigid, ramous shrub, the tender 

 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. parvijlorum. Ro.rb. Corom. i. 3- 1. 51. Gart.sem. hi. 

 93; /. 196. 



Shrubby, thorns opposite, horizontal. Leaves opposite and 

 fascicled. Flowers axillary, tetrandrous. 



