Entry for CANTHIUM neglectum Hiern [family RUBIACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical Africa, Vol 1, page 33, (1877) Author: (By Mr. W. P. Hiern.)
Names
CANTHIUM neglectumHiern [family RUBIACEAE]
Information
Glabrous large tree-like unarmed shrub, rather lucid, with elongated erect-patent rather ashy terete branches, somewhat compressed towards the extremities. Leaves elliptical, acuminate, wedge-shaped or partly obtuse at the base, chartaceous, of nearly the same colour on the two surfaces, 3–4 by 1–1 1/2 in.; lateral veins about 6–7 pairs, inconspicuous; petiole 1/6– 1/4 in.; stipules connate, sheathing, subulate-apiculate, intra-petiolar, hairy inside, 1/8– 1/4 in. long. Fruiting pedicels 1/4 in. long, rather slender, fasciculate, several together in the axils of fallen leaves. Fruit 1/4 in. long, obovoid, obliquely narrowed at the base. Calyx-limb short, after the fall of the corolla with minute subulate teeth. Ovary and ovules of the genus.
Distribution
Abyssinia Nile Land 7000–8000 feet alt., Schimper!
