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Qi^. Canthium Lamk.^ — Flowers hermaphrodite or more rarely 

 1 -sexual ; receptacle obovoid, obconical or hemispherical. Calyx 

 superior gamophyllous, entire, dentate or lobed, often deciduous. 

 Corolla tubular, funnel-shaped or hypocrateriform, subcampanulate or 

 urceolar; tube sometimes elongate (Gyclophi/llum^), rarely more or 

 less curved (Ancijlanthus^) ; lobes of limb 4, 5, more rarely 3, 6, or 

 more, valvate, sometimes thick pointed hard (Ctiviera *) ; throat gla- 

 brous or oftener more or less densely pilose ; hairs generally collected 

 in a dense ring at various parts of the tube, deflexed. Stamens equal 

 in number to lobes of corolla, inserted in throat or mouth, more rarely 

 in tube of corolla ; filaments generally short ; anthers introrse, 2- 

 rimose, apiculate ; connective thick (often dark) ; cells generally free 

 below. Germen 2-celled, or more rarely 3- oo-celled {Fyrostria,^ 

 Fadogia,^ VangiieriaJ Cuviera, Peponidium,^ Clusiophyllea ^) ; cells 

 1 -ovulate. Ovule generally descending; raphe dorsal; micropyle 

 introrsely superior; hilum more or less thickened on both sides; '" or 

 rarely subascending or ascending ; micropyle extrorsely inferior 

 {Psydracium ^'). Disk various, often thick; style erect, simple, some- 

 times bent, at stigmatose apex generally mitre-shaped, above conical 



Trop. Afr. iii. 125.— Chapm. Fl. S. Unit. St. 

 178. — H. Bx. Adansnnia, xii. 238. — Walp. iZe/?. 

 ii. 486, 487 {Slenostomum, Sacconia, Eupyrena), 

 942 {C'homelia) ; vi. 49 ; Ann. ii. 755 {Chomelia), 

 764, 765 {Timonm^); v. 113 {Guettardella). Of 

 this genus also, in our opinion (see Bull. Soe. 

 linn. Par. 200), is Abbottia singularis F. Muell. 

 {Fragm.Phyt. Austral, ix. 181) very near T'mo- 

 nius whose stamens are not monadelphous and 

 the putamens are very similarly described as 

 seeds. 



1 Diet. i. 602 (1783) ; III. t. 146.— J. Gen. 

 204 ; Mem. Mus. vi. 380. — G^rtn. f. Fruct. iii. 

 93, t. 196.— EiCH. Rub. 107 (part).— DC. Frodr. 

 iv. 473.— Endl. Go. n. 3175.— H. Bx. Adanso- 

 ma, xii. 179. — Hook. Fl.Ind. iii. Idl. —F.^ydrax 

 G^RTN. Fruct. i. 125, t. 26.— Rich. Hub. 110 — 

 DC. Frodr. iv. i76.—Dondisia DC. Prodr. iv. 

 469.— Endl. Gen. n. Z2l6.—Phallarta Schum. 

 et Thon. Beskr. 112. — Mitrastigma'H.AB.y. Hook. 

 Lond. Journ. i. 20. — Plectronia DC. Prodr. iv. 

 475.— B. H. Ge7t. ii. 110, n. 227 (not L. nor 



LoUK.). 



2 Hook. F. Icon. t. 1158; Gen. ii. 1229, n. 

 237 a. — H. Bn. Adamonia, xii. 183. 



' Desf. Mem. Mus. iv. 5, t. 2. — Rich. Rub. 

 129.— DC. Frodr. iv. 468.— B. H. Gen. ii. 112, 

 n. 232. 



< DC. Ann. Mus. ix. 222, t. 15 ; Frtdr. iv. 

 468.— Rich. Rub. 130.—/. Mem. Mus. vi. 396.— 

 Endl. Gen. n. 3215.— B. H. Gen. ii. 112, n. 131. 

 — H. Bn. Adansonia, xii. 193. 



5 CoMMERS. /. Gen. 206 ; MSm. Mus. vi. 397. 

 — Lamk. III. t. 68.— Rich. Rub. 136.— DC. 

 Frodr. iv. 464.— Endl. Gen. n. 3204. -B.H. 

 Gen. ii. Ill, n. 130. — H. Bn. Adansonia, xii. 

 189, 195.— Baker, Fl. Maurit. 148. 



5 ScHWEiNP. Rel. Kotschs. 47, t. 32.— B. H. 

 Gen. ii. Ill, n. 229.— H. Bn. Adansonia, xii. 192. 

 — Lagynias E. Mey. ex Sond. Fl. Cap. 14, n, 4. 

 — H. Bn. loc. cit. 191. — Fachystigma Hochst.' 

 Flora (1842), 234 (part). 



7 CoMMERS. /. Gen. 206.— J. Mem. Mus. vi. 

 396.— Lamk. III. t. 159.— Poik. Diet. viii. 331. 

 — G;ertn. f. Fruct. iii. 75, t. 193. — Rich. Rub. 

 137. -DC. Prodr. iv. 454.— Endl. Gen. n. 3191. 

 — B. H. Gen. ii. Ill, n. 228.— H. Bn. Adansonia, 

 xii. 189, 191.— Hook. Fl. Ind. iii. 136.— ro«- 

 gtdera Pers. Synops. i. 205. — Vavanga Eohw, 

 Act. Soc. Eafn.n. 208, t. I.—Mtynia Link. Jarb. 

 iii. Z2.— Rytigynia Bl. Mus. Lugd.-Bat. i. 178. 



* H. Bn. Adansonia, xii. 196. 



9 H. Bn. loc. cit. 197. 



1° The origin of a slender aril. 



" H. Bn. Adansonia, 199. Type of sect, is 

 Psydrax major A. Rich. (Rub. 111). 



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