134 Lxxv. EUBiACE^. (J, D. Hooker.) IGanthmnt. 



in. long. — Miquel eays the flowers are 4-5-inerous ; all other authors say 5-merous, as 

 I find them. 



* * Unarmed ; flowers irmerous. 



8. C. travancoricum, Bedd. Ic. PI. Ind. Or. t. 239; unarmed, 

 glabrous, leaves loug-petioled ovate obtusely acuminate, cymes long-peduncled, 

 branehes slender. 



Tbayanooee and Tihetelly hills ; Beddome. 



A tree; tranchlets woody with rough bark. Leaves clustered on short lateral 

 shoots, lJ-2 in., bright green beneath when dry; petiole very slender, ^ in. ; stipules 

 triangular with long subulate points. FeAuncle of cyme sometimes 1 in., stout and 

 compressed, or shorter or ; branches very slender. Flowers very small, ^ in. diam. 

 Calyx-teeth, subulate. Corolla-tube shortly campanulate. Stigma capitate. Fruit 

 unknown. 



9. C. ^racilipes, Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. 1872, ii. 314 ; For. Fl. ii. 36 

 (Canthium) ; unarmed, short petioles and nerves beneath puberuloua, leaves 

 elliptic obtusely acuminate, flowers 4-merous solitary or in pairs, pedicels capil- 

 lary, fruit subquadrately didymous or reniform, pyrenes rugose thinly woody 

 remote. 



Andaman Islands ; rather frequent, Kurz. 



Shrubby ; pubescence fulvous ; branches slender. Leaves 3-5 by IJ-Z in., green 

 when dry, memhranous ; nerves very slender ; petiole very short ; stipules finely 

 acuminate. Flowers very small; pedicels J-| in., hairy, arising from very short 

 shoots. Calyx-teeth subulate. Fruit \ in. across, with a very broad sinus at top, 

 blueish-black. 



*** Armed; stamens 4 or 5. 



10. C. puberulum, Thw. mss.; spinescent, pubescent, leaves small 

 elliptic acute, peduncles fascicled, flowers 4-5-merous, calyx-lobes long recurved, 

 corolla-tube broadly campanulate. 



Cetlon ; central province, Thwaites (C. P. 3995). 



Braiwhes slenieii, elongate; spines short, straight. Leaves f-1 in., bright green 

 when dry, finely pubescent on both siu:faces ; petiole short ; stipules with slender 

 points. Peduncles always bracteate, 1-3-flowered, ^J in., fulvous pubescent, as are 

 the bracts and calyx. Calyx-tube campanulate ; lobes longer than the corolla, nar- 

 rowly lanceolate. CoroKa-ftjieiin., lobes acute. SiyZe glabrous ; stigma subglobose. 

 Fruit unknown. 



11. C. Xtbeedii, DC. Prodr. iv. 474; spinescent, shining, branches divari- 

 cate, leaves ovate obtusely caudate-acuminate, petiole and very short fascicled 

 pedicels pubescent, flowers 5-merous, fruit suborbicular compressed. W. Sf A., 

 Prodi: 426 ; Dah. Sf Gibs. Bomh. Fl. 113. Webera tetrandra, Wall. Cat. 8265 

 A. in part ; Rheede Hart. Mai. v. t. 37. 



Western Peninsula ; from the Coneau southwards. Ceylon ; southern and 

 central part. 



Shrubby, " scandent" (Dalzell); branches slender, short, pubescent; spines short, 

 slightly recurved. Leaves 1-4J by 1-2 in., dark brown or black when dry, rarely 

 green ; base rounded, sometimes acute or cordate ; nerve-axils sometimes hairy ; 

 petiole very short and triangular ; stipules appressed, hairy. Pedicels ^i in., shorter 

 than the flowers. Calyx-teeth minute. Corolla-tube very short and broad ; lobes lan- 

 ceolate, acuminate, forming a long beak in bud, glabrous. Style hairy. Fruit J in. 

 diam., subdidymous, truncate with a broad sinus above ; pyrenes crustaceous, contigu- 

 ous. — Wight & Aruott (Prodr. 427) have a var. ;8 with the under surface of the leaves 

 sprinkled with hairs, and a var. y with cordate base to the leaves. Thwaites makes 

 a. var. 5 minus for a very small-leaved form with straight ascending spines. 



