136 LXST. uvmA-CEM. (J. D. Hooker.) [Canlhium.,^ 



larger fruit, which I haye not seen, but which is described by Kurz as equalling a 

 small cherry. 



17. C. parviflorum, Zamk. Diet. i. 602; spinescent, glal)rous, leaves 

 small ovate obovate or orbicular obtuse, cymes peduncled many-flowered, flowers 

 4-merous, fruit suborbicular compressed emarginate at iDoth ends, endocarp 

 -woody imdulate. DC. Prodr. iv. 474 ; Oaertn. f. Fruct. 1. 196, f. 3 ; JRoxh. Cor. 

 PI. t. 57 ; Fl. Ind. i. 534 ; W. 8; A. Prodr. 426 ; Ddz. Sf Gils. Bomb. Fl. 113 ; 

 Wall. Cat. 8289. Webera tetrandra, Willd. Sp. PI. i. 1224 e.vcl syn. Rheede ; 

 Wall. Cat. 8265 in part.— Rheede HoH. Mai. v. t. 36. 



Western Peninsuia ; from the Concan southwards. Ceylon ; abundant up to 

 4000 ft. 



A rigid shrub ; branches often thickly covered -with stoiit straight spines 1-2 in. 

 long. Leaves usually crowded on shortened lateral shoots, \-i in., rather coriaceous, 

 dirty green when dry, opaque, base euneate ; petiole slender, ^-J in. ; stipules small' 

 •with long cuspidate points. Cymes J-J in. ; pedilncle and pedicel slender, short or 

 long ; flowers very small, yellowish. Calyx-teeth minute. Corolla-tube subglobose ; 

 lobes ovate. Style glabrous, stigma capitate. Fniit subquadrate or obcordate sub- 

 didymous, ^ iu. diam. — " Spines sometimes three-fold " (Roxburgh). 



64. VANGUERXA, Juss. 



Characters of Canthium, but ovary 3-6- (usually 5-) celled, and fruit larger, 

 — ©isiEiB. Species about 30, in the tropics of the old world. 



V. EDULis, Vakl {Wall. Cat. 8410), a native of Madagascar, a small tree resembling 

 V. spinosa, but unarmed, is cultivated in India for the sake of its eatable fruit. 



1, V. spinosa, Ro.rh. Fl. Ind. i. 636 ; spinescent, leaves glahrons villous 

 or tomentose. Wall. Cat. 8409; X)a i^-oA-. i v. 454. V. moUjs, Wall. Cat. 

 8411. V. spinosa and V. pulaescens, Kurz For. Fl. ii. 34. V. edulis, Miq. in 

 Serh. Hohenach. n. 127, not of Vahl. Pyroatria ? spinosa, Miq. Fl. Ind. Sat. 

 ii. 313. Oanthium, Wall. Cat. 8415, 8417. 



From NoETHEEN Bengal to Canaea, Pegu, Tenasseeim, and Biema. — ^Disteib. 

 Java, 



A small tree or large bush, with straight opposite simple or S-nate spines. Leaves 

 3-4 in., opposite or 3-nately whorled, ovate or oblong, acute or acuminate ; petiole ^1 

 in.; stipules cuspidate from a broad base. C^»8«s 1—l^in., shortly peduncled; flowers 

 greenish, pedicelled. Calyx 5-toothed. Corolla-tube subglobose ; lobes triangular, 

 acute. Style glabrous ; stigma 4-5-lobed. Snipe f in. diam., subglobose or turbi- 

 nate, smooth, fleshy ; pyrenes 4-5, woody, smooth. — Fruit eatable. 



Tae. 1 . spinosa proper ; leaves glabrous or nearly so. V. spinosa, Eoxb. 



Vae. 2. mollis, Wall. Cat. 8411 (sp.); leaves more or less pubescent or tomentose 

 on both surfaces. V. pubescens, Kur^. 



05. StlESSOPTZ:£t,A, Hook. f. 



A tree ; branches roliust, terete. Leaves opposite, petioled, large and broad,^ 

 very coriaceous, tomentose beneath ; nerves strong ; stipviles large, rigidly coria- 

 ceous, interpetiolar, one much larger than the other, obliquely oblong, very 

 obtuse, Tr/ith strong parallel or suhflabellate rerves, the other shorter, rounded. 

 Floioers minute, iu small dense axillary cymes, ebracteolate. Caly.v-tube short, 

 hemispheric, 5-toothed. Corolla-tube short ; throat hairy ; lobes 5, short, acute, 

 valvate in bud. Stamens 5, on the corolla-throat ; filaments short subulate ; 

 anthers oblong, apicidate. Ovary 2-celled ; style short, stout, stigma capitate 

 10-lobed ; ovules 1 in each cell, attached to the septum, amphitropous ? Fruit 

 small, S-celled, didymous (or 1-celled and globose), smooth; pericarp coriaceous 

 with a thin fleshy covering. Seeds cup-shaped, embracing a thick horny projec- 

 tion from the middle of the inner angle of the cell, testa adnate to the dense 



