Canthium. pentandiua monogyxia! 16& 



petioled, acuminate. Stipules ovate, acuminate. Corymb small, 

 terminal. Coral long, slender, tubular, with incurved bolder. 



A native of Silhet from whence specimens were sent to me in 

 1821. Flowering time March. 



Beng. Basook. 



A smooth shrub. Branches dichotomous, slender, cylindric, 

 sub-scandent, greyish. — Leaves approximate, widely spreading, oppo- 

 site, lanceolate, acuminate, base acute, both sides smooth ; vessels 

 on the under surface as in the last species ; about five inches long. 



— Petiols very short Stipules ovate, ending in a long, sometimes 



bifid, cuspidate acumen, withering and at length falling off. — Plovers 

 disposed in a terminal, small, short-peduncled corymb; they are 

 rather shorter than in the last, but in other respects of precisely the 

 6ame structure. 



CANTHIUM. Lamarck. 



Calyx four or five-toothed. Corol one-petalled, tubular. Germ 

 two-celled, one-seeded; attachment sub-superior. Drupe inferior 

 two-seeded. Embryo inverse, and furnished with a perisperm. 



] . C. angustifolium, R. 



Shrubby, armed. Leaves lanceolate, lucid. Flowers axillary, 

 pentandrous. Style length of the corol. 



Beng. Kota-m«l!». 



A well armed, shrubby, very ramous species, a native of the hills 

 in the vicinity of Cliittagong, Silbet, and the whole eastern frontier 

 of Bengal. Flowers from March till July, and probably the greater 

 part of the year. 



Trunk obscure. Branches numerous ; young shoots straight, 

 slender, firm, round and smooth. ~— Spines axillary, expanding — ■ 

 Leaves on the youngest shoots in single, opposite pairs ; on the older 

 branchlets fascicled ; all are short-petioled, lanceolate, entire, long, 

 taper-pointed, firm and polished, from one inch to two and half 



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