136 LXXT. KUBIACE^E. (J. D. Hooker.) \Cuntlnwn.. 



larger fruit, which I have not seen, but which is described by Kurz as equalling a 

 small cherry. 



17. C. parviflorum, Lanik. Diet. i. 602; spinescent, glabrous, leaves 

 small ovate obovate or orbicular obtuse, cymes peduncled many-flowered, flowers 

 4-merous, fruit suborbicular compressed emarginate at both ends, endocarp 

 woody undulate. DC. Prodr. iv. 474 ; Gaertn. f. Fruct. t. 196, f. 3 ; Roxb. Cor. 

 PL t. 57 ; Fl. Ind, i. 534 ; W. $ A. Prodr. 426 ; Dalz. 8> Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 113 ; 

 Wall. CVrf.,8289. Webera tetrandra, Willd. Sp. PL i. 1224 excl. syn. Hheede; 

 Wall. Cat. 8265 inpart.Rheede Hort. Mai. v. t. 36. 



WESTERN PENINSULA ; from the Concan southwards. CEYLON ; abundant up to 

 4000 ft. 



A rigid shrub; branches often thickly covered with stout straight spines 1-2 in. 

 long. Leaves usually crowded on shortened lateral shoots, -1 in., rather coriaceous, 

 dirty green when dry, opaque, base cunea^e ; petiole slender, --j in. ; stipules small 

 with long cuspidate points. Cymes \-\ in. ; peduncle and pedicel slender, short or - 

 long ; flowers very small, yellowish. Calyx-teeth minute. Corolla-tube subglobose ; 

 lobes ovate. Style glabrous, stigma capitate. Fruit subquadrate or obcordate sub- - 

 diclymous, ^ in. diam. " Spines sometimes three-fold" (Roxburgh). 



64. VANOTJERIA, Juss. 



Characters of Canthium, but ovary 3-6- (usually 5-) celled, and fruit larger. 

 DISTRIB. Species about 30, in the tropics of the old world. 



V. EDULIS, VaU (Wall. Cat. 8410), a native of Madagascar, a small tree resembling-. 

 V. spinosa, but unarmed, is cultivated in India for the sake of its eatable fruit. 



1, V. spinosa, Roxb. FL Ind. i. 536; spinescent, leaves glabrous villous 

 or tomentose. Wall. Cat. 8409; DC. Prodr. iv. 454. V. mollis, Wall. Cat. . 

 8411. V. spinosa and V. pubescens, Kurz For. Fl. ii. 34. V. edulis, Miq. in 

 Herb. Hohenacli, n. 127, not of VaU. Pyrostria ? spinosa, Miq. Fl. Ind. Sat. 

 ii. 313. Oantbium, Wall. Cat. 8415, 8417. 



From NORTHERN BENGAL to CANARA, PEGU, TENASSERIM. and BIRMA. DISTRIB. 

 Java. 



A small tree or large bush, with straight opposite simple or 3-nate spines. Leaves 

 3-4 in., opposite or 3-nately whorled, ovate or oblong, acute or acuminate ; petiole -1" 

 in. ; stipules cuspidate from a broad base. Cymes 11^ in., shortly peduncled ; flowers- 

 greenish, pedicelled. Calyx 5-toothed. Corolla-tube subglobose ; lobes triangular, 

 acute. Style glabrous ; stigma 4-5-lobed. Drupe f in. diam., subglobose or turbi- 

 nate, smooth, fleshy; pyrenes 4-5, woody, smooth. Fruit eatable. 



TAR. 1 . spinosa proper ; leaves glabrous or nearly so. V. spinosa , Itoxb. 



VAR. 2. mollis, "Wall. Cat. 8411 (sp.) ; leaves more or less pubescent or tomentose - 

 on both surfaces. V. pxibescens, Kurz. 



65. 1VEESOFTERA, Hook. f. 



A tree ; branches robust, terete. Leaves opposite, petioled, large and broad, 

 very coriaceous, tomentose beneath ; nerves strong ; stipules large, rigidly coria- - 

 ceous, interpetiolar, one much larger than the other, obliquely oblong, very 

 cbtuse, with strong parallel or subflabellate rerves, the other shorter, rounded. 

 Flowers minute, in small dense axillary cymes, ebracteolate. Calyx-tube short, 

 hemispheric, 5-toothed. Corolla-tube short ; throat hairy ; lobes 5, short, acute, . 

 valvate in bud. Stamens 5, on the corolla-throat ; filaments short subulate ; 

 anthers oblong, apiculate. Ovary 2-celled ; style short, stout, stigma capitate 

 10-lobed ; ovules 1 in each cell, attached to the septum, amphitropous ? Fruit 

 small, 2-celled, didyrnous (or 1-celled and globose), smooth ; pericarp coriaceous 

 with a thin fleshy covering. Seeds cup-shaped, embracing a thick horny projec- 

 tion from the middle of the inner angle of the cell, testa adnate to the dense 



