Canthium. fentandria monogynia. 171 



Coast ; every soil, and situation suits it. Flowering time the hot 

 season ; the seeds ripen in September. 



Trunk scarcely any, but branches innumerable, the smaller are re- 

 gularly cross-armed, and spreading. — Thorns simple, opposite, above 

 the axils, spreading, cross-armed, very strong and very shaip; in lux- 

 uriant plants they are sometimes three-fold. — Leaves on me young 

 shoots opposite, on the older branchlets fascicled, shori-petioled,. 

 reflexed, ovate, entire, smooth; si2e various. — Stipules connecting, 

 subulate. — Umbellets, or rather racemes opposite, below the thorns, 

 small, about the length of the leaves. — Peduncles and pedicels smooth, 

 round. — Flowers small, yellow. — Calyx above, four-toothed; teeth 

 acute; permanent. — Corol one-petalled. Tube gibbous, short; 

 mouthy downy. Border four-parted; segments ovate, expanded. — • 

 Filaments four, in the mouth of the corol. Anthers ovate. — Germ- 

 inferior, globular, two-celled, with one ovulumm each attached to the 

 axis above its middle. Style rather longer than the tube of the corol. 

 Stigma headed — JOrwpeobcordate, laterally compressed a little witU 

 a hollow on each side, size of a cherry, crowned with the remaining 

 calyx, fles'iy, smooth, yellow, two-celled. — Nuts two, one in each 

 cell, oblong, one-celled. — Embryo inverse, sub-cylindric a little 

 curved, and furnished with a soft amygdaline perisperm. 



Obs. The bush makes excellent fences. The ripe fruit is eaten by 

 the natives. The leaves are universally eaten in curries; on that ac- 

 count the plant has the additional name kura which means esculent. 



4. C. didymum, G&rt. Carp. iii. 94. t. 1L6.* 



Sub-arboreous, unarmed. Leaves oblong and oval. Cymes axillary, 

 sub-sessile. Flowers pentandrous. Style longer than the cyliudfic 

 tube of the corol, with a mitre-shaped stigma. 



Teling. Naum-papttla. 



Webera cymosa, Willd. Spec. i. 1224. 



A small tree, a native of the interior mountains of the coast of 

 Coromandel. 



Bark smooth, on the young shoots shining green Leaves oppo- 



* C. cymosumt Pers. enrbirid. i. 200— N. V7. 

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