170 pentandiua MONOGYNiA. Canlhium. 



long, and half or three-quarters of an inch broad — Stipules interfo- 

 liaceous, ensiform. Flowers axillary, several together, small, short- 

 ped uncled, greenish-yellow. — Calyx acetabuliform, five-angled, five- 

 toothed. — Corol ; tube short and gibbous ; border of five-lanceolate 

 segments. Filaments five, from the fissures of the corol, short. 

 Anthers linear, erect, equalling the border of the corol. — 'Germ in- 

 ferior, turbinate, two-celled, with one ovulum in each, attached to 

 the upper part of the partition. "Style the length of the corol. Stigma 

 large, with a bifid apex. — Drupe inferior, sub^rotund, apex retuse, a« 

 in C . parviflorum, smooth, size of a black currant, when ripe )ellow 5 

 two-celled, though one of the cells is frequently abortive. 



2. C. parvifulium, R. 



Shrubby, armed, hairy. Leaves oval, entire. Flowers axillary, 

 crowded, pentandrous ; tube of the corol globular. 



The shape of the leaves alone forbids the supposingofthis to be Phu 

 kenet's Amaranthoides indicum, verticillatum, Parietariae hirsutis foliis 

 aculeatum, &,c. Aim. 27. t. 133./. 3. Consequently it is neither 

 Monetia diacantha, Willd. Spec. i. 670. nor Azima diacantha, La- 

 fnark, Encuclop. i. 343. 



Is a middling-sized, very rigid, ramous shrub, the tender shoots 

 and underside of the leaves hairy. The inside of the tube of the 

 corol is surrounded with a circle of straight white bristles of its 

 own length, inserted round its mouth, and pointing to its bottom. 

 Flowering time the rainy season. 



S.'C. parviflorum, Roxb. Corom. i, 3. t. 51 Gcert. sem. iii. 93. t, 



196. 



Shrubby, thorns opposite, horizontal. Leaves opposite and fas- 

 cicled. Flowers axillary, tetrandrous. 



Kanden-kara, Rheed. mal. v. 71. t. 36. 



Weber a tetrandra, Willd. Spec. i. 1224. 



Teling. Bal«soo-k«ra. 



This is owe of the most common, scraggy, thorny bushes on the 



