422 LXI. RUBIACEJE. [ Canthium. 
of the mee are precisely the same as those from the Sandwich, the e - and 
Ps. islands of the N. and S. Pacifie, though in some of the latter - pedi cels a re longer, 
showing an approach to the i inflorescence T = common C, didym sertn. flowe 
are, Ke ever, in the Australian as xia n the Pacific jam pas; almost constantly 4- 
merous, and usually 5-merous in C. didy 
oleifolium, Hook. in Mitch. Trop. Austr. 397. A tall glabrous 
C. 
P sometimes glaucous, a few branchlets occasionally degenerating into — 
d 
short spines. Leaves oblong, obtuse, narrowed into a short petiole, rarely 
i ; $ : 
smooth but scarcely shining, the veins usually inconspicuous. Flowers in 
short almost sessile axillary cymes, rather smaller than in C. Jucidum, and 
varying in the number of parts. 4 or 5. Corolla-tube i as long as the 
lobes, the flowers otherwise the same as*in C. lucidum, Fruit also the same, 
didymous when both carpels ri T. 
rer Burdekin river, F. Mu ueller ; Suttor river, Sutherland. 
N.S. Wales. Plains of the he Gwy dir, Mitchell ; Castlereagh river, C. Moore ; Darling 
river to Cooper’s Creek, Nie/son 
ifolium, Be M i Pun and much-branched. Leaves 
the We gene longer. Stations exserted. Stigma mitre-s shaped. Fruit 
C. lucidum, or rather smaller 
Queensland. Burnett and iiion rivers, F. Mueller ; also in Leichhardt s SE 
D H D D in 
in foliage and in the size of the flowers and length of grees but they can 
united into one E without skiing them all to the C. didym 
tube. Stamens exserted. Stigma Core divided to the base into 2 t 
lobes. Fruit, when ripening both carpels, a little more than 2 lines 
the pyrenes not so hard as in C. eis SE ams as in C. copro 
edd microphyllum, F. Muell. Pragm 
Queensland. Cairncross island and "buts river, F. Mueller; Mount hinc mm 
‘man; Kent's Lagoon, Leichhardt; Brisbane river, Moreton Bay, F. Mueller, C. Stuart- 
N. S. Wal es. Macleay river, Beckler n 
7. C. coprosmoides, 7. Muell in Trans. Phil. Inst. Viet. iii. T 
tall shrub or small tree, quite glabrous. Leaves obovate ovate or 
3 
TM obtuse, — contracted at the base, in some spe deent = : 
DN. 
e S 
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