LXXIV. RUBIACEvE. 
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Canthwm.] 
ellipsoid about 2 in. long, plum-shaped, grey fleshy, pyrenes large 
triangular, inner face flat, outer one keeled. Hab. Woods, common. 
Singapore, Bukit Mandai; Toas. Johor, Bukit Soga, Batu Pahat. 
Malacca, Bukit Bruang (Derry). Sungei Ujong, Rantau (Cantley). 
Selangor, Weld's Hill, Kwala Lumpur (Foxworthy). Perak, Ulu 
Bubong and Chanderiang (Kunstler); Tapah (Wray). Penang, 
Penara Bukit (Curtis). Distrib. Siam. Native names: Munkai; 
Salang Rusa. 
(8) C. confertum Korih. in Ned. Kruidk. Arch, ii, 235; King, 
lx. 60. 
A small unarmed glabrous tree about 25 to 30 ft. tall. Leaves 
fleshy-coriaceous, elliptic or lanceolate-acuminate shiny, dark green, 
perfectly glabrous; nerves 3 to 4 pairs very faint, nervules not 
visible; 2-5 to 4 in. long, 1-25 to 175 in. across; petioles *3 in. 
long, winged in upper part. Cymes sessile of 4 or 5 fascicled flowers 
on short pedicels. Flowers *25 in. long. Calyx short, cupular, 
teeth minute, blunt or 0. Corolla coriaceous, tube very short, 
mouth .villous, lobes triangular blunt as long. Fruit *3 in. long, 
black sub-globose. Hab. By tidal rivers and by the sea. Singa¬ 
pore, Pulau Tekong; Blakan Mati; Bajau. Johor, Gunong Pulai. 
Malacca, Bukit Bruang (Griffith); Merlimau (Cantley). Pahang, 
Tahan River; Kwala Tembeling. Selangor, Kwala Lumpur, 
Weld’s Hill (Foxworthy). Distrib. Borneo. 
