XLVI. CONNAKACEjE (BAKER). 455 



3. BOUREA, Aubl. ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. PI. i. 432. 



Calyx quinquepartite, the divisions larger in fruit and imbricated, clasping 

 the base of the fruit. Petals 5, longer than the calyx, usually linear-oblong 

 Stamens 10, alternately longer and shorter, the filiform filaments united at 

 the base, the anthers didymous. Carpels 5, four usually imperfect, the fifth 

 attenuated into a straight subulate style, the stigma subcapital. Capsule 

 sessile, curved, clasped at the base by the calyx, chartaceous, 1-seeded. 

 Seed erect ; the arillus erect, incomplete, slit in front, equalling or shorter 

 than the seed ; testa shining, smooth; albumen 0— Trees and shrubs. 



A considerable genus, belting the world in the tropics. 



Follicle glabrous 1. R. santaloides 



flowers in lax 6-12-flowered racemes R iant ] ia% 



Flowers very numerous, in dense panicles " ' 



Follicle velvety. g R Solanderi. 



leaflets o-7 ........ • 4. R. heterophylla. 



Lower leaflets 3-5 ; upper leaves simple 



1. R. santaloides, Wight and Am. Prod Fl. Ind 144 Branches gla- 

 brous, terete. Petiole l|-2 in. long, firm, glabrous. Leaflets 3-5 oblong or 

 obova'te-cuspidate, 2-4 in. long, more than half as broad, the : lateral ones sub- 

 opposite, on short petiolules; texture coriaceous, both sides gkbroua and 

 glossy, with the veins and veinlets in relief Flowers m f«^>x, 6-^ 

 •owered racemes, 1 in. or less long, the pedicels slender g^rous, 2-3 toes 

 E spreading from the axis at a right angle, minutely b«^ at the ba e 

 Calvx cnmmnSlate I line deep, the divisions broad-ovate, imbi cated, gla 

 C oTtK tct'eniated rou.S the edge. Petals four times *£[£* 

 St, yellowish, ligulate, with a space between them in the i«»M fl°««- 

 Si equal/rather shorter than the petals, much longer than tte ^ style • 

 Follicle solitary, oblong, 7-8 lines long, narrowed upward., not «££«■«. 

 fcus and considerably curved. JL .f^htmi *f " ^87 DC Pro 

 Pea, xxiii. 418. Connarm santaloides, Vahl, Symb. m. 87 , DC. fro.l. 



[ii-85. ' 



Upper Guinea Sierra Leone, Afzelius in Herb. Brit. Mus. ! 



Ur description is ta.en from the origina, specimen J. the^ritish J—"-"- 



, I distinguish the plant from the common Indian one We* ve^ , ies / but 



•as from the Guinea coast, which may represent closely allied bu tan 1 

 «one of them are complete enough to form a decided opinion upon wpUffi h J mc l 



! I Fernando Po, has the leave, much less ""^J^^^SS** specimens 



■ «ger, with slender pedicels |-1 in. long, spreading at right angles, i l 



Barter, Mann, and Thomson) have the leaves varying in te jg^S ' dicels 



f »nn 5 already described, but the inflorescence cymoserBtherthanracmo^ I 



I R. my ria»tha, Wta ^/""fv I^SUM 

 PMies and whole plant glabrous, the baik pale giey, jo 15 ' p tiole 



^branches angular" probably nodding ^^^^^Le Leaflets ellip- 

 p n<ler, glabrous, the base suddenly thickened -JWJJ^ ® nort i y acu . 

 N, the terminal one the largest, 4* in. long by halt as broaa, 



