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Erect herbs or under-shrubs ; stems terete or obtusely angled with 

 linear lines of hairs or glabrous. Leaves equal, usually narrow, stipules 

 connate with the petiole to form a truncate cup often with bristles on its 

 mouth. Floivers white, pink or lilac, small, dimorphous, in corymbose 

 cymes. Calyx-tuhe ovoid or didymous ; teeth 4 minute, subeqaal or 1 

 or 2 elongate, persistent. Gorolla-tu.he long, its throat villous ; lobes 4, 

 valvate in bud, with the tips inflexed. Stamens 4, inserted on the 

 throat; anthers linear, included or exserted. Ovary 2-celled : style 

 filiform : stigma included or exserted, 2-Iobed : ovules solitary in each 

 cell, pendulous. Fruit globose or oblong, small, of two semi-terete or 

 dorsally compressed indehiscent cocci. Seeds with membranous testa 

 and thick funiculus ; albumen fleshy ; embryo axile, the cotyledons 

 thin and the radicle superior. — Distrib. Species about 10: Indian, 

 Malayan and Australian. 



Knoxia corymbosa, Willd. Sp. Plant I, 682. Herbaceous, 1 to 4 

 feet high. Stem terete or obscurely 4-angled, little-branched, pubes- 

 cent, tomentose or villous, never glabrous. Leaves membranous, pale- 

 brown and somewhat olivaceous when dry, petiolate or sessile, narrowly 

 elliptic, linear or ovate-lanceolate, tapered to each end, the apex acu- 

 minate ; both surfaces hairy like the stems : main-nerves 5 to 9 pairs, 

 rather straight, ascending, most prominent on the lower surface ; length 

 1'5 to 5 in. ; breadth '4 to 1 in. ; petiole '2 to "4 in. or more. Stipules 

 narrowly cupular, their edges with bristles *1 to "2 in. long. Corymbs 

 on the end of the branches, shorter than the leaves, minutely bracteo- 

 late, trichotomous ; the ultimate branches spicate when in fruit. 

 Flowers '05 in. long, on peduncles shorter than themselves, white or 

 purplish. Calyx ovoid, with 4 broad blunt triangular sub-equal teeth. 

 Corolla-tahQ hairy within. Fr^iit less than "1 in. long, puberulous. 

 W. & A. Prod. 4.39; Wight 111. t. 123: Dalz & Gibs. Fl. Bomb. HI. 

 Hook fil. Fl. Br. Ind. III. 128. K. teres, DC. Prod. IV. 669; Wall. Cat. 

 819 in part. K. exserta, DO. I.e. K. timbeUata, Banks; Spreng. Syst. I. 

 406. K. su,matrensis, Wall, Cat. 6183. K. mollis, Br. in Wall. Cat. 

 820, not of W. 8f A. K. stricta, Thw. Enum. 152. Spermncoce? teres and 

 8. exserta, Roxb. Hort Beng. 10 ; Fl. Ind. T. 367,368 ; Ed. Carey & Wall. 

 I. 373, 374. S. sumatrensis, Retz Obs. IV. 23, ex Cham. & Schl. in 

 Linnaea, III. 316 (not of Roxb. Fl. Lid. L 336 ?) Guncea trifida, Ham. in 

 Don Prodr. 135. 



In all the provinces. — Distrib. Malayan Archipelago, British 

 India, tropical Australia. 



Canthidm, Lam, 



Shrubs (sometimes climbing), unarmed or spinous, their stipules 

 often connate. Flowers small, axillary, fascicled, or in corymbose, often 



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