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Order XLVI. CONNARACE.E (by Mr. J. G. Baker). 



Mowers usually hermaphrodite, regular or nearly so. Calyx quinquepar- 

 We, persistent, valvate or imbricated. Petals 5, ligulate and longer than 

 the calyx or rotundate-cuneate and shorter, usually imbricated, free or 

 slightly coherent. Stamens perigynous or hypogynous, 5 or more usually 10, 

 the alternate ones in that case (those opposite the petals) considerably 

 shorter than the others and frequently imperfect ; filaments filiform, often 

 nionadelphous at the base ; anthers short, didymous, the dehiscence introrse, 

 sometimes turned round at length. Disk or thin, surrounded by the base 

 I the stamens. Carpels usually 5, rarely 1-3, free, hairy, 1-celled. Style 

 subulate or filiform ; stigma subcapitate, simple or 2-lobed. Ovules 2, colla- 

 teral, ascending from the base of the inner angle of the cell, orthotropous. Cap- 

 sule usually solitary, sessile or stipitate, follicular, dehiscing usually in front, 

 rarely on the back, 1- or very rarely 2-seeded. Seeds erect, with or without 

 an arillus or with the testa arilliform below the middle. Embryo either ex- 

 albuminous with amygdaloid cotyledons or albuminous with foliaceous coty- 

 ledons, the radicle superior or very rarely ventral. — Trees or climbing or 

 erect shrubs. Leaves persistent or deciduous, alternate, exstipulate, simple 

 or imparipinnate, with I or many pairs of leaflets ; leaflets subcoriaceous or 

 wriaceous, always entire. Flowers small and inconspicuous, racemose or 

 Peculate. Capsule glabrous or naked internally. 



A small Order (about 140 species, fide Bentham and Hooker), universally dispersed 

 "rough the tropics and scarcely passing beyond them. 



Tribk 1. Connarese. — Sepals imbricated in astivation. Seeds exalluminout. 



^yx spreading or reflexed. 



Leaves pinnate 1- Byrsocarpus. 



leaves 3-foliolate 2. Aqelma. 



^yx clasping the fruit or its stalk. 



Capsule sessile, the fruit-calyx dilated 3. Rourea. 



stalked, the fruit-calyx not dilated 4. Connarus. 



TfiiBE 2. Cnestideee. — Sepals valvate in astivation. Seeds albuminous. 



Capsule stalked, glabrous within 5. Manotes. 



Capsule sessile, hairy within 6. Cnestis. 



*• BYBSOCABPUS, Schum. et Thonn. ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. PL 



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Calyx quinqueparhte, persistent, the divisions roundish, rigid, much im- 

 ^•cated. Petals 5, linear, exceeding the calyx. Stamens 10, subequal or 

 Jjternately longer and shorter, the filaments subulate, dilated at the base. 

 Tfpels 5, hairy. Style short ; stigma terminal. 2-fid. Capsule obliquely 



*long, coriaceous, dehiscing by the dorsal suture. Seed sessile, erect, with 

 ' b /oad hilum, oblong, terete, the testa smooth, red, fleshy and arilliform 

 "N the middle. Albi 



m very short, superior 



Confined to tropical Africa. 



Wg the middle."" Albumen o" Cotyledons pitted; plumule villose ; ra- 

 dicle very short, superior or ventral.— Shrubs with pinnate leaves. 



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