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triangular, with broad base and narrowly acuminate apex. Cymes sub- 

 sessile or on short peduncles (25 to 1 in. long) sometimes puberulous; 

 branches longer than the peduncles, spreading, corymbose, crowded, many- 

 flowered. Flowers about "25 in. long, on unequal slender pedicels. 

 Calyx less than "1 in. long, narrowly campanulate ; mouth with short 

 acute teeth or truncate. Corolla salver-shaped, the throat villous : the 

 mouth with 5 blunt oblong deflexed lobes as long as or longer than the 

 tube. Anthers narrowly oblong, on filaments half their length, inserted 

 on the throat,^ exserted and deflexed. Style glabrous ; stigma sub- 

 quadrate, notched or bifid. Fruit variable, always compressed and more 

 or less didymous, usually somewhat obovoidor obovoid-ellipsoid, "25 to '6 

 in. long, minutely velvety : pyrenes with hard dark warted putamen. 

 Eoxb. PI. Ind. I, 535 : W. & A. Prodr. 425 ; DC. Prod. lY, 473 ; Wall. 

 Cat. 8413 ; Hook fil. Fl. Br. Ind. Ill, 132 ; Trimen Fl. Ceyl. II, 343. 

 Flectronia didyma, Kurz For. Flor. Burma. II, 35. Psydrax dicoccos, 

 Gaertn. Fruct. p. 125, t. -28 ; DC. Prod. IV, 476. Vangueria dicocca 

 Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat., II 250. Webera cymosa, Willd. Sp. p. 1224. In- 

 determ. Wall. Cat. 9069. 



In all the provinces, very common. 



The South Indian species C. umlellatum, Wight, Ic. lOSi is, in my opinioiij 

 only a form of this species. 



Boiibtftil Species. 



7. Canthium grisedm. King & Gamble. A shrub ? Young bran- 

 ches nearly as thick as a goose-qu^ill, striate and purplish-brown when dry. 

 Leaves membranous, narrowly elliptic, tapering to each end ; upper sur- 

 face dark, sparsely strigose when young, afterwards glabrous ; lower 

 surface cinereous with pale curved haii's, especially on the midrib and 

 4 or 5 pairs of rather prominent little-curved ascending main-nerves; 

 length (when young) 2 to 25 in.; breadth "75 to 1"25 in.; petioles "2 to 

 •25 in.; stipules broadly triangular, acute, much shorter than the petioles. 

 Flowers '2 in. long, pedicellate, crowded on short mulfci-bracteolate axil- 

 lary branches longer than the petioles, the pedicels '15 to "2 in. long, 

 pubescent. Calyx one-third the length of the corolla, rotate, with 5 

 long narrow spreading lobes. Corolla much pointed in bud, with a 

 short wide tube puberulous outside but densely hairy inside ; the 5 lobes 

 about as long as the tube, triangular, acuminate, sub-erect. Anthers 

 sub-sessile in the tube, iucluded, elliptic. Stigma large, globose, ribbed. 

 Fruit unknown. 



Lankawi ; Curtis 2804. 



Only once collected. Has a strong superficial reaemblance to Vangueria spi- 

 nosa Roxb. 



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