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axillary and opposite or terminal: fiowers sessile along the ultimate 
divisions, small, whité or purplish: bracteoles minute: berry ovate, 
somewhat compressed. 
Peninsula.’ Bengal. ‘Assam. Flowering in the cold season. 
GENUS XXIII. CANTHIUM. 
Pentandria Monogynia. Sex: Syst: 
Deriv. The Malabar name latinized. 
_ Gen. Cuar. Shrubs or small trees, with unarmed or thorny 
branches : leaves opposite: stipules solitary on both sides: pedun- 
gles axillary, several-flowered : calyx-tube ovate; limb 4—5-toeth- 
ed: corolla bearded in the throat: tube short; lobes 4-5, spread- 
ing : anthers 4-5, inserted into the throat, scarcely exserted : -style 
exserted : stigma thick, évate-globose or mitre-shaped, undivided or 
2-cleft at the apex: drupe globose or compressed, crowned with the 
calycine teeth, fleshy, 2+celled? seeds solitary in each cell, inverted, 
incurved: alhumen fleshy. : 
(1) C. pprmum. (Gaertz. ) 
Ident. W.& A. prod. I. p. 425.—Dee. prod. IV. p. 473.— 
Roxb. fA. Ind. I. p. 535. . : ‘ 
Syn. C. cymosum, Pers.—Psydrax dicoccos, Gaertn. Dec. 1. 
ce. p. 476.—Webera eymosa, ‘Wilid.—Rondeletia cymosa, Poir.— 
Cupia cymosa, Dec. l. c. p. 394.—Gardenia parviflora, Poir. 
Engrav. Gaertn. fr. TIT. p. 94. t. 196, ' 
Sprc. Cuar. Unarmed shrub: Jeaves oval, more or less aeu- 
minated, glabrous, coriaceous: upper side shining, under with glan- 
dular hollows in the axils of the nerves: cymes axillary, peduncled, 
anuch ‘shorter than the leaves: ealyx-limb with 5 often inconspicu- 
ous teeth: corolla-tube hairy inside: stigma much exserted, mitner 
shaped, slightly 2-lobed atthe apex; drupe when ripe compressed 
and somewhat didymous, obovate, wrinkled and tubercled, marked 
with a furrow on each side: flowers white, very fragrant. 
Interior mountains of the Coromandel Coast. 
(2) C. parvirtorum. (Lam.) 
Ident. W. & A. prod. I, p. 426.—Dec. prod. IV. p. 474.— 
“Roxb. fl. Ind. I. p. 534. 
Syn. Webera tetrandra, Willd. 
Engrav. Roxb. Cor. I. t. 53.—Rheede Mal. V. t. 36.—Pluk. t. 
97. f. 4. 
Sprec. Cuan. Shrub; usually with opposite horizontal thorns a 
little above the axils, sometimes nearly unarmed: leaves ovate, glar 
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