1877.] Knoivledge of the Burmese Flora. 153 



All parts glabrous and glossy ; flowers cymoso, P. didyma. 



Branchlcts and nerves of leaves pubescent ; flowers on long capillary pedicels, solitary 



or paired, P. gracilipes. 



X X Armed with opposite (rarely ternary) sharp spines, which are 

 usually decussately placed. 

 + Branchlets more or less rusty or tawny pubescent. 

 Leaves pubescent on both sides, or hispid above ; drupes the size of a pea, F. parvifolia. 

 Leaves glabrous, or the mid-rib beneath slightly pubescent ; drupes the size of a small 



cherry, P. horrida. 



+ + All parts perfectly glabrous. 



Leaves glossy, caudate -acuminate ; flowers clustered, P. angustifoUa, 



Leaves more or less blunt, glaucescent beneath ; flowers in peduncled cymes, 



..F. parvifolia. 



1. P. GLABRA, Bth. and H£. (CantJimm cjlahrum, Bl. Bydr. 967 ; DC. 

 Prod. IV. 473 ; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. II. 254 ; GantUum recurvum WalL 

 MS. ap. Voigt Hort. Calc. 389). 



Hab. In the tropical forests of the southern spurs of the Pegu Yomah 

 and in Tenasserim ; also Andamans. — Fl. RS. ; Fr. Jan. 



2. P. DiDTMA, Bth. and Hf. {Cantlimm dichjmum, Gsertn. Fruct. III. 

 94. t. 196 ; Roxb. Fl. Ind. ed. Wall. 11. 171 ; WA. Prod. I. 425 ; Bedd. 

 Fl. Sjlv. t. 221 ; Cantliium lonibellatiim, Wight Icon. t. 1034 ; Canthium 

 spirostylwn, Miq. Ann. Mas. Lugd. Bat. lY. 251 ; Canthium lucidiolum, 

 Miq. 1. c. 254). 



Hab. Tenasserim (Helf. 2972). 



Two different species may really be included in the above synonymy. 

 Cantliium oliganthum, Miq. and Canthium umlelligerum, Miq. Ann. Mus. 

 Lugd. Bat. IV. 251, are both referable to Canthium lucidum, Hook, and Arn. 



3. P. GEACiLiPES, Kurz For. Fl. Burm. II. 36 (Canthium gracilipes, 

 Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. Beiig. 1872. 314;. 



Hab. Rather frequent in the tropical forests of the Andamans, espe- 

 cially along the western side. — Fr. April, May. 



Much resembling Yangueria Miqueliana {Pyrostria ? spinosa, Miq. 

 Fl. Ind. Bat. 11. 313), but differs in the absence of spines, in its larger 

 leaves, and in the different fruits. 



4. P. PAEVIEOLIA, Bth. and Hf. {Canthium parvifolium, Roxb. Fl. 

 Ind. ed. Wall. II. 170 ; DC, Prod. IV. 474 ; Canthium scandens, Bl. Bydr. 

 966 ; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. II. 255). 



Hab. Not unfrequent in the low forests and in cleared shrubby jDlaces 

 of the southern parts of Pegu : Chittagong (Roxburgh). — Fl. RS. 



5. P. HOERIDA, Bth. and Hf. (Canthium horridum, Bl. Bydr. 966 ; 

 DC. Prod. IV. 474 ; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. II. 255 and Ann. Mus. Lugd. Bat. 

 IV. 251). 



Hab. Tenasserim, Tavoy (Wall. Cat. 8298. C.) 

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