Jbiplosjjora.] 



60. RUBIACEiE. 



191 



Annual rings visible, but not distinct. Pores very small and numerous. 

 Medullary rays fine and very fine, distinct, numerous. Weighs about 

 46 lbs. to the cub. ft. 



11. DIPLOSPORA, DC. 



Shrubs or trees, evergreen. Leaves simple, shortly petioled; 

 stipules triangular, acuminate. Flowers in axillary fascicles or cymes, 

 polygamo-dioecious, white ; bracts free or connate in a cup. Calyx-tube 

 short ; limb truncate. Corolla-tube short, lobes 4-5, spreading, 

 twisted in bud. Stamens 4-5, filaments short or long, anthers often 

 reeuived. Ovary 2-3-celled ; style 2-armed ; ovules 2-3 in each cell. 

 Berry ovoid or globose. Seeds few, imbricate. 



Fruit sessile, ellipsoid ... ... 1. D. apiocarpa. 



Fruit pedicelled, globose ... ... 2, D. sphoerocarpa. 



These two species of medium-sized trees are found in the Bombay 

 Presidency forests about the latitude of Yengurla. 



1. D. apiocarpa, Dalz. in Hook. Kew Joar. II. 257 ; FL Br. I. 3. 123. 



Dicosjpermum apiocarpum, Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 120 ; Bedd. Fl. Sylv. 

 t. 228. 



Western peninsula on the ghats from the Konkau southwards. Ever- 

 green forests on the higher ghats of the Konkan and probably North 

 Kanara. Fl. B. S. ^ 



2. D. sphserocarpa, Dalz. in Hook. Kew Jour. II. 257 ; Fl. Br. I. 3. 



123. DiGospermum spherocarpa, Dalz. and Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 120 ; Bedd. 

 Fl. Sylv. 134. 



Western peninsula on the ghats from Bombay southwards. On the 

 ghats from the Konkan southwards. Fl. Oct. Fr. May. 



12. CANTHIUM, Lam. 



Unarmed or spinous trees or shrubs. Leaves simple ; stipules 

 interpetiolar, pointed, with a broad base. Flowers small, axillary, 

 fascicled orcymose. Calyx-tube short, limb 4-5 toothed. Corolla-tube 

 with a ring. of deflexed hairs within ; throat villous ; lobes valvate in 

 bud. Ovary 2-celled ; stigma large ; ovules 1 in each cell. Drupe 

 didymous with 1-2 pyrenes. Seeds with fleshy albumen j embryo 

 long ; cotyledons short. 



Unarmed tree. Flowers umbellate on a short ped- 

 uncle. ... ... ... -.1. 0, limhellafum. 



Spinous shrubs, scandent or rigid-rambling. Flowers 

 fascicled. 



Scandent. Spines short, recurved. Leaves shin- 

 ing above ... ... ... ... 2. C. Rheedii. 



Bigid-rambling. Spines long, straight. Leaves 

 not shining ... ... ...3. C.parviflQrum. 



