Cansjira. TETrxAwniiiA monorynja. 461 



Peduncles axillary, crowded, short. — Flozcers small, straw-coloured. 

 Calyx ; tube somewhat gibbous, four-sided ; outside scaly ; border 

 of four cordate segmeuts ; its mouth marked on the inside with four 

 curved lines, on their pointed junctures the filaments sit. — -Style 

 hairy. — Drupes oblong, succulent, when ripe red, 



Obs. The caKx of my plant cannot be said to be placed on the 

 germ ; it ha-, as it were a lower tube which envelopes the germ only, 

 this part grows with the fruit, and finally becomes the pulpy part 

 thereof as in the Nyctagineae of Jussieu. 



3. E. arborea, R. 



Arboreous. Branchlets often spinous, pointed. Leaves oblong 

 and broad-lanceolate, entire, silvery underneath, flowers in axilla- 

 ry fascicles. Fruit cylindrically oblong. 



A large 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. 

 Calyx large, gibbous, four-toothed. Coral none. Nectary four- 

 petalled, embracing the germ, and of the same length. Berry supe- 

 rior, one-seeded. 



1. C. scandens, Roxb. Coram, u. N. 103.* 

 Shrubby, scandent. Leaves alternate. Spikes axillary. 

 Scheru-valli caniram, Rheed. Mai. vii.p. 7. t. 4. 

 Tsjeru caniram, ibid. p. 3. t. 2. appears to be the same plant. 

 A large woody climbing shrub; a native of the Circar mountains. 

 Leaves alternate, two-faced, short-petioled, broad-lanceolate, 

 smooth, entire, about three inches long, and one broad — Spikes axil- 



• C. malabarica, Lam. Encjcl. iii. 433.-Daphne poljstachya, Wiild. specii. 

 .120.— N. W. 



