Cantlnu?n.] Rubiacece. 343 



Branches with spines. 

 Fl. usually 5-merous. 

 Cor. -tube not globose. 



L. under 1 in., acute at base . . . 3. C. puberulum. 

 L. over 1 in., rounded at base. 



Fruit under | in 4. C. Rheedii. 



Fruit 1 in 5. C. macrocarptjm. 



Cor.-tube nearly globose . . . . 6. C. CAMPANULATUM. 

 Fl. always 4-merous, very small . . . 7. C. parviflorum. 



1. C. didymum, Gaertn. f. Fruct. iii. 94 (1805). Pana-karawa 

 G-al-karanda, Pandaru, 5. Vatchikuran, Yerkoli, T. 



Psydrax dicoccos, Gaertn. Fruct. i. 125. Thw. Enum. 152. C. P. 

 3419, 2607, 1667, 3511. 



Fl. B. Ind. iii. 132. Wight, Ic. t. 1034 (C. umbellatum). Bedd. Fl. 

 Sylv. t. 221. Gaertn. Fruct. i. t. 26, f. 2, and iii. t. 196, f. 5 (fruit only). 



A moderate-sized tree, bark smooth or vertically furrowed, 

 whitish, branchlets numerous, drooping, thickened at nodes, 

 glabrous, somewhat compressed, without spines ; 1. 3I-4I m -> 

 lanceolate, acute at base, acuminate, obtuse, very glabrous, 

 bright green above, paler beneath, subcoriaceous, rather 

 undulate, lat. veins few, very oblique, pellucid, petiole ^-f in., 

 stip. triangular, acute, usually caducous ; fl. small, on rather 

 long ped., numerous, cymes lax, pedunculate, corymbose, 

 bracts minute or none ; cal. truncate or with 5 teeth, glabrous 

 or pubescent ; cor. campanulate, lobes 5, shorter than tube, 

 lanceolate, acute ; drupe \-\ in., nearly globose, somewhat 

 didymous when dry, purple, pyrenes kidney-shaped, very 

 much warted, black. 



Var. /3, lanceolatum, Thw. Enum. I. c. Webera lanceolata, Moon 

 Cat. 19. C. laticeolatum, Am. Pug. 24. C. P. 2513. 



L. narrowly oblong, stip. acuminate ; fruit smaller. 



Low country and up to 4000 ft.; common. Var. /3, Kalutara (Moon); 

 Kandy; Hunasgiriya. Fl. April; white. 



Also in India, Malaya, and S. China. 



A variable plant. C. P. 3419 is var. grandifolium, Thw. (from Cara- 

 wita Kande), and C. P. 2607 (from Ratnapura) is var. rostratum, Thw.; 

 but neither seem worth separate names. Gaertner's Psydrax is described 

 and figured from Ceylon specimens (in the Leyden Museum) collected by 

 Hermann, but the plant does not seem to be noticed by other authors on 

 Hermann's collections. Another genus of Gaertner's, Caranda pedun- 

 culata, is based on this species. This is described in Fruct. ii. 17, and 

 figured at t. 83. The supposed fruit is a large, hard, beaked leaf-gall, 

 very frequently found, sometimes clustered, on the young branches of 

 this tree. They are called 'fruits' even in Fl. B. Ind. 



The wood is very hard, fine-grained, greyish, heavy, and has been 

 called ' Ceylon Box-wood.' The native names of this tree are not well 

 ascertained. Moon gives ' Gal-seru ' for var. lanceolatum. 



2. C. montanum, Thw. Enum. 152 (1859). 



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FL B. Ind iii. 132. 



