Canthuwi.~] Rubiacece. 345 



spreading with 5 distant teeth, cor.-tube short and wide, the 

 rings of hair within stiff and bristly, lobes 5, ovate, acute; 

 anth. small, exserted ; stigma bilobed ; drupe broader than 

 long, about § in. wide, didymous, compressed, bilobed at top, 

 pyrenes strongly worted. 



Var. /3, minus, Thw. 1. c. C. P. 3420. 



L. smaller, \-\ in., spines very slender, straight; cor.-lobes 

 long, attenuate. 



Moist low country up to 3000 ft.; rather common. Kalutara (Moon) ; 

 Galle; Hunasgiriya. Wight (1. c.) records specimens from Rottler's 

 Herb, collected at Colombo April, 1806. Var. /3, Singhe Raja Forest. 

 Fl. Nov.-Feb.; pale greenish-yellow. 



Also in S. India. 



5. C. macrocarpum, Thw. Enum. 152 (1859). 

 Plectronia maavcarpa, Bedd. Ic. PI. Ind. Or. 57. C. P. 2816. 

 Fl. B. Ind. iii. 135. Bedd. Ic. PI. Ind. Or. t. 238. 



A half-climbing shrub, branchlets long, cylindrical, rufous, 

 at first pubescent, afterwards glabrous, spines supra-axillary, 

 stout, compressed, either straight and |-f in., or shorter and 

 strongly hooked, very sharp; 1. 2-2| in., oval or lanceolate, 

 rounded at base, very acuminate, acute, rough on both sides 

 with minute, scattered, rufous, prickly hairs, petiole | in., 

 rufous-pubescent, stip. broad, hairy, with a long filiform point; 

 fl. rather small, on short ped., cymes small, pedunculate, 

 pubescent ; cor.-tube campanulate, lobes 4 or 5, oblong, acute, 

 longer than tube ; stam. and style exserted, stigma very large, 

 cubical ; drupe 1 in. wide, broader than long, 2-lobed at top, 

 compressed, didymous but with one lobe often suppressed; 

 pyrenes rugose. 



Very rare, and only found on the Hantane Range at about 3000 ft. 

 Fl. Feb.; pale greenish-white. 



Endemic. First collected by Champion. 



6. C. campanulatum, Thw. Enum. 153 (1859). 

 C. P. 2472. 



Fl. B. Ind. iii. 135. 



A small semi-scandent shrub, with many very slender 

 branches, adprcssed-hairy when young, spines f in., supra- 

 axillary, numerous, slender, quite straight, very sharp; 1. often 

 fasciculate on suppressed branchlets, small, \-\\ in., ovate or 

 Oval, acute or rounded or rather cordate at base, obtuse but 

 apiculate at apex, glabrous, petiole very short, stip. sharply 

 pointed ; fl. usually solitary, or 2 or 3 together, ped. very 

 slender, glabrous, jointed near the base, buds much pointed; 

 cal.-limb saucer-shaped, segm. very acute ; cor. thick, tube 



