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Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



pedunculate, cymes ; sometimes polygamous. Calyx with short tube 

 and short persistent or deciduous cupular4- or 6-toothedlimb. Corolla- 

 tube funnel-sbaped, campanulate or urceolate, usually -with a ring of 

 deflexed hairs in the tbroat; limb 4-5-lobed, valvate in bud, finally 

 reflexed. Anthers equal in number to tlie lobes of the limb, inserted in 

 the mouth or throat of the corolla, sessile or on short filaments. Dish 

 annular, tumid or depressed. Ovary 2-celled ; style stout ; stigma large, 

 entire or bifid ; ovules solitary in the loculi and pendulous. Drupe 

 didymous or sub-globose or (when one of the carpels is suppressed) 

 reniform, with 1-2 pyrenes, or a 2-celled pufcamen. Seeds pendulous, 

 oblong, with membranous testa and fleshy albumen ; embryo elongate, 

 sub-terete ; the cotyledons short and the radicle superior. — Distrib. 

 About 80 species ; in Asia, Africa, tropical Australia aud Polynesia. 



Flowers 1 in. long, solitary or in pairs, axillary ,.. 1. C. jpauciflorum. 



Flowers less than "5 in. long, in axillary cymes : — 



Spiny straggling or scandeub shi'ubs with more or less 

 bairy leaves : — 



Leaves rarely so much as 15 in. long, with 3 pairs of 

 main-nerves, the remains of the calyx on the top of 

 the fruit inconspicuous ... ... ... 2. C. parvifolnim. 



Leaves 2 to 3 in. long with 5 pairs of main-nerves : 



frait crowned by the large calyx-tubeC ... ... 3. C. molle. 



Unarmed trees or shrubs, glabrous or nearly so :— » 

 Corolla-tube wide, short : — 



Fruit much compressed, obovate, about '15 in. 

 long ; pyrenes not keeled : whole plant quite 

 glabrous ... ... ... ... 4, C. confertum. 



Fruit ellipsoid, smooth, obscurely 4-angled, some- 

 what compressed, 1 in. or more in length : pyrenes 

 prominently keeled on the back, not warted ; leaves 

 with a few adpressed hairs on their lower sur- 

 face ... ... ... ... 5. C. glahrum. 



Corolla salver-shaped, the tube very narrow. Frnit 

 much compressed, didymous, minutely velvety, "25 

 to 6 in. long : pyrenes warted, not keeled : leaves 

 quite glabrous ... ... ... ... 6. C. didymum. 



1. Canthium pauciflorum, King & Gamble, n. sp. A spiny glab- 

 rous shrub 15 to 20 feet high : young branches thicker than a crow- 

 quill, pale, terete ; spines few, slender, curved, shorter than the petioles, 

 supra-axillary. Leaves membranous, elliptic-ovate, shortly and some- 

 what obtusely acuminate, the base cuneate ; both surfaces pale olivace- 

 ous-brown when dry, dull ; main-nerves 4 to 5 pairs, spreading, some- 

 what prominent on the lower surface but evanescing at the tips, almost 

 obsolete on the upper; length 4 or 6 iu. j breadlh 1-5 to 2-25 in.; 



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