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Roxburgh ; for we can find no character to separate the two, the form of the spi'neg, 

 tlie size of the fruit, and the amount of pubescence liitherto relied upon being aa 

 a matter of fact inconstant. 



3. Canthium molle, King & Gamble, n. sp. A straggling spiny shrub 

 ( ? scandent) ; all parts more or less densely pale rusty-pubescent ; the 

 young branches thinner than a goose-quill, dark-brown, more or less 

 4-angled; spines stout, supra-axillary, much curved downwards, "2 to 

 •6 in. long. Leaves thickly membranous, ovate to ovate-lanceolate, 

 shortly acuminate, the base cuneate or rounded ; main-nerves about 5 

 pairs, spreading, slightly prominent on the lower surface when dry, 

 obsolete on the upper; length 2 to 3 in.; breadth '75 to 1"5 in.; petioles 

 '15 to '2 in.; stipules broadly triangulai", apiculate, very short. Flowers 

 •2 in. long, on pedicels nearly as long, in small axillary cymes or on 

 short, minutely bracteolate, sometimes leaf-bearing, axillary branches. 

 Calyx small, cupular, with 5 small acute teeth. Corolla with a wide 

 tube glabrous outside, bu.t inside with a ring from the throat of long 

 deflexed white stout hairs : the lobes of the limb about as long as the 

 tube, narrowly oblong, glabrous, deflexed. Anthers sessile, shortly 

 oblong, exserted. Style exsei-ted ; stigma large, ovoid-globose, ridged. 

 Fruit unknown. 



Singapore: in the Bot. Garden Jungle; Ridley 2S59. 



4. Canthium confertdm, Korth, in Ned. Kruidk. Ai^ch. II, 235, 

 A shrub ? everywhere glabrous ; young branches rather thicker than a 

 crow-quill, pale brown and striate when dry. Leaves coriaceous, oliva- 

 ceous when dry, elliptic or elliptic-lanceolate, shortly and bluntly acu- 

 minate, the base narrowing into the petiole ; both surfaces dull, the 

 reticulations obsolete ; main-nerves 3 (rarely 4) pairs, oblique, ascend- 

 ing, scrobiculate at the axils, rather faint on both surfaces; length 2*5 

 to 4 in.; breadth 1"25 to 1*75 in.; petioles about 3 in., winged in the upper 

 half; stipules triangular, acuminate, much shorter than the petioles. 

 Cymes sessile, shorter than the petioles, the very short axis bearing a 

 few minute bracts and 6 or 8 flowers on pedicels '1 in, long. Floivers 

 •25 in. long. Calyx very short and cupular, with 5 often minute teeth 

 Corolla coriaceous, rotate, the tube very short : the 5 lobes broadly tri 

 angular with thickened edges, reflexed, villous inside and bearing be 

 tween the lobes 5 ovate exserted anthers on short filaments. Style 1 in 

 long, bearing a large capitate-peltate corrugated stigma. Disk large 

 thick, cushion-like. Fruit solitary, on a thin peduncle '15 in. long, 

 compressed, obovate, smooth, cushion-like, glabrous. Hook, fil. Fl, Br, 

 Ind. Ill, 133. C. glomernlatum, Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. Suppl. 585. Meme 

 cylon pauciflorum, "Wall. Cat. 4114. 



Malacca: Griffith (K.D.) 2973; Maingay (K. D.) 852,942. Penanq 

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