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tremely bitter taste, whilst the seeds, notwithstanding the 

 double or triple size of the fruit, are barely as long as those of 

 Cucumis jucunda, and are attached to a funicle which exceeds 

 their own length. 



Rubiace^;. 



Canthium vaccinifolium. 



Glabrous ; branchlets in two rows, recurved, more or less 

 spinescent ; leaves thick coriaceous, small, orbicular or 

 ovate; peduncles axillary and terminal, 1-2-flowered; 

 pedicels shorter than the calyx ; corolla to the middle 

 four-cleft; faux bearded; filaments shorter than the 

 oblong anthers; stigma bifid, with blunt base; berry 

 black. 



In barren scrubby localities near the rivers Burdekin, 

 Suttor, M'Kenzie, Dawson, and Burnett, accompanied by 

 Canthium oleifolium. 



A shrub 6' high or still higher, with numerous spreading 

 branches. Leaves blunt or emarginate, flat, entire, 2-5 lines 

 long, above slightly shining, beneath paler and opaque, one- 

 nerved, hardly veined, their stalk \-% line long. Stipules 

 \-\ line long, 1 line broad, entire, deciduous, with a very 

 short acumen. Peduncles one line or less long. Pedicels 

 sometimes obliterated, at the base with extremely minute 

 bracteoles. Calyx tube half-ovate, without ribs, scarcely one 

 line long, with four very small acute teeth, one or the other 

 sinus occasionally producing also a minute tooth. Corolla 

 pale yellow, funnel-shaped, outside glabrous, inside above the 

 middle of the tube white bearded; lobes lanceolate-ovate. 

 Stamens inserted between the lobes of the corolla. Fila- 

 ments very short, glabrous. Anthers sulphur-yellow, blunt, 

 at the base a little emarginate, § line long. Pollen bright 

 yellow. Style filiform, green, smooth, l\ line long. Stigma 

 ovate, bifid, \ line long. Berry globose, succulent, 2-3 lines 

 long, rather sweet, with two nuts, which are nearly ovate, 

 black, slightly tubercled, very convex at the back, slightly so 

 in front, about 1^ line long. 



The plant may, with equal right, be referred to Canthium 

 or Psychotria. 



Canthium coprosmoides. 



Glabrous ; leaves thinly coriaceous, ovate, flat, entire, blunt 

 at the apex, tapering into the petiole ; peduncles none ; 



