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petioles '16 to *25 in. ; stipules small, broadly triangular, Floivers 

 about 1 in. long, solitary or in pairs on a short minutely bracteo- 

 late axillary brancb. Calyx '2 in. long, cupular-campanulate, the 

 mouth with 5 short broad acute teeth. Corolla with a wide cylindric 

 tube "5 in. long, having a ring of hairs inside near the base, otherwise 

 glabrous ; the limb with 5 lanceolate erect or spreading lobes half as 

 long as the tube. Anthers exserted, narrowly oblong, inserted by short 

 filaments in the glabrous throat. Ovary 2-celled ; style exserted; 

 stigma mitriform, oblong, 2-partite. Fruit nearly 1 in. long, pulpy, 

 smooth, crowned by the large wide calyx-tube. Flectronia 'pauciflora, 

 K. & G. MS. 



Peeak : Scortechini, 62. 



At once distinguishable by its large flowers, solitary or in pairs. 



2. Canthium parvifolium, Roxb. Hort. Beng. 15 : Fl. Br, Ind. I. 

 534, A rambling spiny shrub often subscandent or scandent ; young 

 branches thicker than a crow-quill, angled, at first densely rusty ad- 

 dressed-pilose, ultimately often sub-glabrous ; spines supra-axillary, "05 

 to "2 in. in length, straight or curved, pubescent at the base, the 

 tips glabx'ous and shining. Leaves small, subcoriaceous, greenish when 

 dry, ovate or elliptic, acute, the base cuneate ; upper surface glabrous ; 

 the lower often sparsely hairy; the three pairs of slightly curved 

 ascending main-nerves and the midrib pubescent usually on both sur- 

 faces; length '75 to 1'5 in.; breadth "5 to '75 in. : petioles '05 to 15 in.; 

 stipules broad and short with an acute abrupt point. Floivers. '2 in. 

 long, in small axillary clusters, on short pedicels. Calyx cupular-trun- 

 cate, entire, or minutely 4- to 5- toothed. Corolla several times longer 

 than the calyx : the tube widely tubular in bud and constricted below the 

 limb, when expanded the tube globular, glabrous outside, but with a 

 ring of dense deflexed white hairs inside ; the limb with 4 or 5 lan- 

 ceolate deflexed lobes. Anthers partly exserted, ovate, on short fila- 

 ments. Stigma mitriform, sulcate. Fruit when ripe the size of a small 

 cherry or black currant, glabrous. DO. Prod. IV, 474. Hook. fil. Fl. 

 Br. lad. Ill, 135. C. scandens, Blume Bijdr. 966; DC. Prod. IV, 475. 

 G. horridum, Blume Bijdr. 966; DC. Prod. IV, 474; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. 

 11,255: Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. Ill, 135. Flectronia parvifolia and P. 

 horrida, Kurz. For. Fl. Burm, II, 36. Gardenia rigida, Wall. Cat. 8257 

 in part. C. zizyphi7mm,Wsil\. Cat. 8288 A. C. Eubiacea, Wall. Cat. 8288 

 B. Hyptianthera rhamnoides, Zoll. et Mor. inZoll. Syst. Verzeichn. 60, 

 Dondisia horrida, Korth, in Ned, Kruidk. Arch. II, 236. 

 In all the provinces : not uncommon. 



We have here reduced Blurae's species C. horridum to the older one of 



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