764 LXlV. tltlBlACE^. [Canthium. 



forks. Corolla not 2 lines long, the tube exceedingly short, glabrous inside, the 

 lobes much longer. Stamens exserted. Stigrna mitre-chaped. Fruit of C. 

 lucidum, or rather smaller. 



Hab.: Burnett and Dawson Bivers, F. v. Mueller ; also in Leichhardt's collection. 

 Wood of a light colour ; close in grain ; useful for turnery and cabinet work. — Bailey's Cat. 

 Ql. Woods No. 252a. 



6. C. didymum (twin-fruited), Roxb. Fl. Ind. i. 535; Hook, in Fl. Brit. Ind. 

 iii. 132. A stout shrub or small tree. Bark smooth. Leaves ovate, lanceolate 

 or orbicular, the size various, 2in. or more long, ^ to more than lin. broad, very 

 coriaceous, polished above, usually obtusely cordate-acuminate, the base acute 

 obtuse or even cordate ; petioles 2 to 4 lines long. Cymes sessile or on a short 

 peduncle, sometimes puberulous. Calyx truncate or obscurely toothed. Corolla 

 carnpanulate, tube 1 to 3 lines long ; lobes 5, subacute. Style glabrous ; stigma 

 subquadrate, notched or 2-fid. Fruit J to ^in., globose ellipsoid or obovoid, 

 compressed-subdidymous ; putamen rugose. 



Hab.: Eookingham Bay, J. Dallachy (P. v. M. Pragm. ix. 186). 



i. C< vacciniifolium (Vaccinium-leaved), F. v. M. in Trans. Phil. Inst. 

 Vic. iii. 47 ; Benth. Fl. Amir. iii. 422. A small tree or a shrub attaining 16ft. or 

 more, with very numerous slender divaricate branches, the smaller branehlets 

 sometimes spinescent. Leaves petiolate from broadly obovate to oblong, obtuse, 

 J to nearly |in. long, the veins scarcely conspicuous. Flowers usually 4-merous, 

 2 or 3 together in little axillary cymes, the common peduncle and pedicels very 

 short and slender. Corolla about 3 lines long, the lobes narrow, acute, rather 

 shorter than the tube. Stamens exserted. Stigma ovoid, divided to the base 

 into 2 thick lobes. Fruit, when ripening both carpels a little more than 2 lines 

 diameter, the pyrenes not so hard as in C. lucidum, and especially as in U. 

 coprosmoides. — C. microphyllum, F. v. M. Fragm. ii. 134. 



Hab.: Cairnotoss Island and Suttor River, F. v. Mueller ; Mount Wyatt, Bovmian ; Kent's 

 Lagoon, Leichhardt ; Brisbane Eiver and Moreton Bay, not uncommon. 

 Wood straw-coloured, close-grained, and tough, — Bailey's Cat. Ql. Woods No. 251. 



8. C. coprosmoides (Coprosma-like), F. v. M. in Trans. Vic. Phil. Inst. iii. 

 47; Benth. Fl. Austr. iii. 422. "Kooni," Bundaberg, Keys; " Bil-loo-bal," 

 ■Mount Cook, " Mar-ko," Bloomfield Eiver, EotA. A tall shrub or small tree, 

 quite glabrous. Leaves obovate, ovate or broadly elliptical, obtuse, shortly 

 contracted at the base, in some specimens all under 2in., in others 3 to 4in. long, 

 coriaceous but scarcely shining, the veins distant and not prominent. Flowers 

 4-merous or 5-merous, very shortly pedicellate, in sessile axillary clusters of 3 

 to 6. Corolla-tube slender, fuUy 4 lines long, bearded inside at the orifice, the 

 lobes about half as long as the tube. Anthers slightly protruding. Style 

 exserted, with a broad thick peltate stigma. Fruit red, sometimes ^in. broad, 

 on a pedicel of 2 to 4 lines. 



Hab.: Port Denison, Fitzalan ; Edgecombe and Eookingham Bays, Dallachy, W. Hill 

 Rockhampton, Thozet ; Dawson and Brisbane Elvers, F. v. Mueller. 



Wood dark-yellow, streaked with a brown colour, prettily marked or grained ; a useful wood 

 for turnery or cabinet work. — Bailey's Gat. Ql. Woods No. 252. 



22. IXORA, Linn. 



(Said to be named after Iswara, a Malabar deity.) 



Calyx-limb small, 4-toothed or lobed (rarely 5-toothed). Corolla -tube slender; 



lobes 4 (rarely 5), imbricate in the bud, usually- contorted. Anthers usually 



exserf'ted. Ovary 2-celled, with 1 ovule in each cell, peltately attached to the 



centre of the partition or rarely near the base. Style exserted, entire or divided 



