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(sometimes coloured) involucre, purple, white, yellow, or 

 greeuish, very rarely blue, often beautiful and fragrant, 

 usually silky-pubescent outside. 



GENUS I. CANSJEKA. 

 Tetrandria llonogynia. Sex: Syst: 

 Deriv. The Malabar name Latinised. 



Gek. Chae. Calyx coloured, campanulate-urceolate, deciduous, 

 throat without scales, limb 4-toothed, reflexed : small hjpogynous 

 scales 4, free, alternate with the stamens, denticulate : stamens 

 inserted at the bottom of the calyx and opposite its lobes, fila- 

 ments capillary, free, enclosed : anthers fixed at the base, short 

 exserted : ovary sessile, fleshy, cell very small near the middle, 

 oyule at first erect, afterwards reflexed : style terminal, flliform : 

 stigma exserted, capitate, slightly 4-furrowed : fruit naked, ovoid : 

 seed erect. — Climbing shrubs : leaves scattered, somewhat fleshy, 

 ' quite entire, glabrous : spikes axillary, simple, solitary or aggre- 

 gate ; flowers small, yellow, stalked, with a small bract at the 

 base. 



(1) C. Eheedii. [Omel.) 



Ident. Dec. prod. XIV. p. 519.— Gmel. syst. I. p. 280. 



Syn. C. Malabarica, Lam. — C. scandens, Roxh. — Daphne 

 monostachya, Willd. 



Mngrav. Wight's Icon. t. 1861.— Roxb. Cor. II. t. 103.— 

 Eheede, Mai. VII. t. 2—4. 



Spec. Chae. Branchlets minutely puberulous : leaves ovate 

 or elliptic-oblong, acuminate, glabrous : spikes fascicled or soli- 

 tary, thickish : calyx middle-sized, and with the rachis minutely 

 puberulous. 



Malabar. Coromandel. 



GENUS II. DAPHNE. 

 Octandria monogynia. 'Sex: Syst: 



Deriv. The Greek term for the Laurel. 



Gen. Chae. .Calyx coloured, rarely green, tubular or funnel- 

 shaped, deciduous, rarely persistent, limb regular, 4-parted, spread- 

 ing, throat without scales : anthers 8, in a double row, inserted 

 on the throat, subsessile, oblong : style terminal, very short or 

 none : stigma capitate : berry fleshy or coriaceous, naked, a long 

 time enclosed by the calyx : seed nut-like. — Shrubs : leaves scat- 



