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tlie lower surface as is the midrib, faint on the upper; length 2*5 to 

 6 in.; breadth 1*5 to 35 in.; petioles '25 to '3 in.; stipules '25 in. long 

 triangular, with broad base and narrowly acuminate apex. Cymes sub- 

 sessile or on short peduncles ('25 to I in. long) sometimes puberulous; 

 branches longer than the peduncles, spreading, corymbose, crowded, many- 

 flowered. Flowers about '25 in. long, on unequal slender pedicels. 

 Calyx less than *! in. long, narrowly campanulate ; mouth with short 

 acute teeth or truncate. Corolla salver-shaped, the throat villous : the 

 mouth with 5 blunt oblong deflexed lobes as long as or longer than the 

 tube. Anthers narrowly oblong, on filaments half their length, inserted 

 on the throat,' exserted and deflexed. Style glabrous ; stigma sub- 

 quadrate, notched or bifid. Fruit variable, always compressed and more 

 or less didymous, usually somewhat obovoid or obovoid-ellipsoid, '26 to '6 

 in. long, minutely velvety : pyrenes with hard dark warted putamen. 

 Roxb. Fl. Ind. I, 635 : W. & A. Prodr. 425 ; DC. Prod. lY, 473 ; Wall. 

 Cat. 8413; Hookfil. PI. Br. Ind. Ill, 132; Trimen Fl. Ceyl. II, 343. 

 Plectronia didyma^ Kurz For. Flor. Burma. II, 35, Psydrax dicoccosy 

 Gaertn. Fruct. p. 125, t. '26 ; DC. Prod. IV, 476. Vangueria dicocca 

 Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat., II 250. Wehera cymosa, Willd. Sp. p. 1224. In- 

 determ. Wall. Cat. 9069. 



In all the provinces, very common. 



The South Indian species C. umhellatum, Wight, Ic. 1034 is, in my opinioi^, 

 only a form of this species. 



Doiihtful Species. 



7. Canthium grisedm, King & Gamble. A shrub ? Young bran- 

 ches nearly as thick as a goose-quill, striate and purplish-brown when dry. 

 Leaves membranous, narrowly elliptic, tapering to each end ; upper sur- 

 face dark, sparsely strigose when young, afterwards glabrous; lower 

 surface cinereous with pale curved hairs, especially on the midrib and 

 4 or 5 pairs of rather prominent little-curved ascending main-nerves ; 

 length (when young) 2 to 25 in.; breadth '75 to 1*25 in.; petioles '2 to 

 •25 in.; stipules broadly triangular, acute, much shorter than the petioles. 

 Flowers '2 in. long, pedicellate, crowded on short multi-bracteolate axil- 

 lary branches longer than the petioles, the pedicels '15 to *2 in. long, 

 pubescent. Calyx one-third the length of the corolla, rotate, with 5 

 long narrow spreading lobes. Corolla much pointed in bud, with a 

 short wide tube puberulous outside but densely hairy inside ; the 5 lobes 

 about as long as the tube, triangular, acuminate, sub-erect. Anthers 

 sub-sessile in the tube, included, elliptic. Stigma large, globose, ribbed. 

 Fruit unknown. 



Lankawi ; Curtis 2804. 



Only once collected. Has a strong superficial resemblance to Vangueria spi- 

 nosa Roxb. 



