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CANTHIUM dubium. 
Spurious Chinese Canthium. 
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TETRANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Nat. ord. Rusracex, ; 
CANTHIUM.— Calyx 5-fidus. Corolla tubulosa brevis 5-fida patens. 
Stamina non exserta. Stigma capitatum. Bacca ovata coronata, aut 
subrotunda non coronata, 2-locularis 2-sperma, seminibus hinc planis 
1-sulcis, indé conyexis. Juss. in mem. mus. 6, 380. ; 
C. dubium; foliis oblongo-lanceolatis coriaceis, stipulis ovatis acuminatis, 
floribus axillaribus subsessilibus calyculatis tetrandris, stigmate bifido. 
Frutex humilis, ramosus, ramis subtetragonis, glabris, junioribus viridibus, 
adultis cinnamomeis. Folia petiolata, lanceolata, v. oblongo-lanceolata, acuta, 
coriacea. Stipulee ovate acuminate. Flores azillares, congesti, calyculo 
sericeo insertt, parvi, pallidé virides. Calyx subcampanulatus, 4-dentatus, 
pubescens. Corolla 4-fida, intis pilosa, laciniis ovatis patentibus carnosis. 
Stamina 4, subsessilia, exserta, fauce inserta; anthere subsagittate. Ova- 
rium biloculare, loculis dispermis, ovulis collateralibus ascendentibus. Stylus 
Jiliformis tubi longitudine. Stigma bifidum. 
If we have some doubt of the propriety of referring the 
last plant to Pyrethrum, we have, if possible, yet greater 
hesitation in placing the present subject in the genus 
Canthium, with which it agrees indeed in habit, but from 
which it seems essentially distinguished by its bifid stigma. 
But, in the absence of all knowledge of its fruit, we are 
unable to assign it a more satisfactory situation. 
It is a native of China, whence it was sent to the 
Horticultural Society, in 1824, by Mr. J. D. Parks. It 
flowered in the stove, in March last, and possesses no other 
claim to notice than its extreme rarity. 
Tn the stove it forms a low bush, with squarish, smooth 
branches, of which the youngest are green, and the old 
ones cinnamon-coloured. eaves stalked, lanceolate, or 
