134 LXXV. RUBIACE-S:. (J. D. Hooker.) [Canthium. 



in. long. Miquel says the flowers are 4-5-merous ; all other authors say 5-merous, as 

 I find them. 



* * Unarmed ; flowers 4.-merous. 



8. C. travancoricum, Bedd. lc. PL Ind. Or. t. 239; unarmed, 

 glabrous, leaves loug-petioled ovate obtusely acuminate, cymes long-peduncled, 

 branches slender. 



TRAVANCORE and TINEVEIXY hills ; Bcddome. 



A tree; branchlets woody with rough bark. Leaves clustered on short lateral 

 shoots, 1^-2 in., bright green beneath when dry; petiole very slender, in.; stipules 

 triangular with long subulate points. Peduncle of cyme sometimes 1 in., stout and 

 compressed, or shorter or ; branches very slender. Flowers very small, -jo i n - diam. 

 Calyx-teeth subulate. Corolla-tube shortly campanulate. Stigma capitate. Fruit 

 unknown. 



9. C. gracilipes, Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. 1872, ii. 314 ; For. Fl. ii. 30 

 (Canthium) ; unarmed, short petioles and nerves beneath puberulous, leaves 

 elliptic obtusely acuminate, flowers 4-merous solitary or in pairs, pedicels capil- 

 lary, fruit subquadrately didynious or reniform, pyrenes rugose thinly woody 

 remote. 



ANDAMAN ISLANDS ; rather frequent, Kurz. 



Shrubby; pubescence fulvous ; branches slender. Leaves 3-5 by lj-2 in., green 

 when dry, membranous ; nerves very slender ; petiole very short ; stipules finely 

 acuminate. Flowers very small; pedicels ^-f in., hairy, arising from very short 

 shoots. Calyx-teeth subulate. Fruit % in. across, with a very broad sinus at top, 

 blueish-black. 



*** Armed; stamens 4 or 5. 



10. C. puberulum, TTiw. mss.', spinescent, pubescent, leaves small 

 elliptic acute, peduncles fascicled, flowers 4-5-merous, calyx-lobes long recurved, 

 corolla-tube broadly campanulate. 



CEYLON ; central province, Thwaites (C. P. 3995). 



Branches slender, elongate ; spines short, straight. Leaves f-1 in., bright green 

 when dry, finely pubescent on both surfaces ; petiole short ; stipules with slender 

 points. Peduncles always bracteate, 1-3-flowered, 5-^ in., fulvous pubescent, as are 

 the bracts and calyx. Calyx-tube campanulate ; lobes longer than the corolla, nar- 

 rowly lanceolate. Corolla-tube j^' in., lobes acute. Style glabrous ; stigma subglobose. 

 Fruit unknown. 



11. C. Rheedii, DC. Prodr. iv. 474; spinescent, shining, branches divari- 

 cate, leaves ovate obtusely caudate-acuminate, petiole and very short fascicled 

 pedicels pubescent, flowers 5-merous, fruit suborbicular compressed. W. fy A* 

 Prodr. 426 ; Dah. $ Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 113. " Webera tetrandra, Wall Cat. 8265 

 A. in part] Eheede Hort. Mai. v. t. 37. 



WESTERN PENINSULA ; from the Concan southwards. CEYLON ; southern and 

 central part. 



Shrubby, "scandent" (Dalzell); branches slender, short, pubescent; spines short, 

 slightly recurved. Leaves l-4 by 1-2 in., dark brown or black when dry, rarely 

 green ; base rounded, sometimes acute or cordate ; nerve-axils sometimes hairy ; 

 petiole very short and triangular ; stipules appressed, hairy. Pedicels - in., shorter 

 than the flowers. Calyx-teeth minute. Corolla-tube very short and broad ; lobes lan- 

 ceolate, acuminate, forming a long beak in bud, glabrous. Style hairy. Fruit % in. 

 diam., subdidymous, truncate with a broad sinus above ; pyrenes crustaceous, contigu- 

 ous. Wight & Arnott (Prodr. 427) have a var. with the under surface of the leaves 

 sprinkled with hairs, and a var. 7 with cordate base to the leaves. Thwaites makes 

 a var. 5 minus for a very small-leaved form with straight ascending spines. 



