342 Rubiacece. \Canthium* 



longest ; fl. crowded in small heads terminating the branches 

 of trifid terminal cymes, no bracts ; cal. glabrous, segm. very- 

 small, linear-lanceolate, acute, one much enlarged, apiculate ; 

 cor. glabrous outside, tube f in., slender, lobes half as long, 

 oblong-lanceolate, subacute, thick ; fruit \-\ in., broadly- 

 ovoid, crowned with cal.-segm., glabrous, carp, readily sepa- 

 rating, compressed, plano-convex, with a dorsal rib, dark 

 brown. 



Var. p, hirsuta, Thw. I. c. K. hirsuta, Arn. Pug. 26. C. P. 1688. 



Whole plant (except upper surface of 1.), including cor. 

 outside, more or less hairy ; fl. rather larger. 



Var. y, foliosa, Thw. Enum. I. c. C. P. 51. 



Hairy ; 1. broader, oval, stip. with longer bristles ; bracts 

 foliaceous ; cal.-segm. much longer ; cor. hairy outside. 



Var. d, spicata, Thw. in Trim. Syst. Cat. 44. C. P. 3996. 



L. quite glabrous ; cymes lengthening out into spikes ; 

 fruit distant on the spikes, larger, more elongated, hairy. 



Montane zone in the patanas; very common. Var. y a sylvan variety. 

 Var. S rare. On False Pedro Mountain. Fl. all the year; pale violet- 

 pink or nearly white. 



Endemic. 



An extremely variable plant. The type, and, still more, var. S, 

 approach K. zeylanica. The dimorphism of the flowers (long-styled and 

 snort-styled) is striking — in one the style, and the other the stam., being 

 exserted. 



33. CANTKIUM^Zm. 



Trees or shrubs, with or without woody spines, stip. 

 broadly triangular, acute, fl. small, in axillary cymes or 

 fascicles ; cal. -limb very short, segm. 4 or 5, usually tooth- 

 like, acute ; cor.-tube campanulate or globose, with a ring of 

 deflexed hair within, lobes 4 or 5, valvate, reflexed ; stam. 

 inserted at mouth of cor.; ov. 2-celled with 1 pendulous 

 ovule in each cell, stigma large, capitate, fruit a drupe, more 

 or less didymous, with 2 hard pyrenes. — Sp. 70; 17 in Fl. B. 

 Ind. 



Branches without spines (also sometimes in 7). 



L. lanceolate, over 3 in 1. C. didymum, 



L. rotundate, under 3 in. . . . . 2. C. montanum. 



* From ' Canti,' the Malabar name for C. Rheedii, as given in Hort. 

 Malab. 



