.] XLVI. CONNARACE.E (BAKER). 461 



A small genus, belonging to tropical Africa and the Malay isles, one species Cape. 



Leaflets 4-15 pairs. 

 Petals exceeding the calyx. 



Rachis of leaves densely pubescent 1. C. grisea. 



Eachis of leaves glabrous 2. C. corniculata. 



Petals shorter than the calyx. 



Leaflets in 8-10 pairs 3. C.ferruginea. 



Leaflets in 12-15 pairs. 



Leaflets blunt, Calyx 2^-3 lines deep 4 C. macrantha. 



Leaflets acute. Calyx 1 line deep 5. C. oblongifoha. 



Leaflets 1-2 pairs 6 - a racemosa. 



1. C. grisea, Baker. A shrub with terete glabrous brandies. Leaves 1 

 ft. long, the petiole about 2 in., clothed with firm, spreading, grey pubes- 

 cence ; leaflets 6 pairs and a terminal one, oblong, the upper ones 3-4 in. 

 long by just half as broad, cuspidate, the base cordate, the lateral ones quite 

 sessile,' not quite opposite; texture subcoriaceous, upper surface glabrous unless 

 on the midrib, lower surface with a few scattered, spreading, firm, grey hairs. 

 Flowers in fascicled racemes from the main branches, scarcely more than I 

 in. long before the flowers expand, the latter ovoid, sessile, densely grey-pu- 

 bescent, close together and subtended each by a linear bract, which equals 

 the flower Mature flowers with a pedicel shorter than the calyx, which is 

 Hn. deep the divisions lanceolate and finally revolute. Petals twice as long 

 as the calvx Ululate. Flowers hermaphrodite ; the stamens united at the 

 base, the longer ones falling considerably short of the petals. Carpels 5, 

 sessile, densely grey-pubescent. Pod not seen. 



Upper Guinea. Old Calabar, Thomson ! 



Inflorescence like that of the Mauritian C. glabra and po/gphyf/a. It recedes from the 

 other species in the direction of Manoies by its stamens joined below and petals exceeding 

 •he, calyx. 



2 C. corniculata, Lam. Diet. iii. 23. An erect or climbing shrub 

 with terete, woodv, glabrous branches. Fully developed leaves 5- 6 in. long 

 the petiole about"2 in. ; leaflets in 4-5 pairs, oblong, 2-2^ in. long by about 

 half as broad subacute, the base broadly rounded or cordate, the lateral ones 

 sessile, subopposite, the lower pairs ovate ; texture conaceous, both sides quite 

 glabrous. Flowers in fascicled axillary racemes 2-3 in. long the branches 

 thinly grey-pubescent. Calyx subsessile, with 2-3 small, pubescent, linear 

 bracts at the base 2 lines long, the divisions ligulate, slightly pubescent on 

 the back. Corolla when fullv expanded slightly exceeding the calyx (2* 

 Hues deep), the petals also ligulate. Pods 1-5, sessile oblong-cylindr.cal, 

 H-l* iii. long, narrowed gradually upwards and curved outwards, densely 

 clothed with spreading, bristly, ferruginous hairs 1 line to | in. long.— UU 

 Prod. ii. 87 ; Planch in Linnsea, xxiii/440. Spondiodes prunens, Smeath- 

 toann, and Jyelaa pruriens, Soland. mss. in Herb. Mus. Brit. 



Upper Guinea. Senegambia, Heudelot ; Sierra Leone, Smeathmann! Gaboon 

 Wintry, Griffon du Bell ay, fide Baillon. 



tower Guinea. Congo, Smith ! Burton ! 



3. C. ferruginea, DC. Prod. ii. 87. A shrub, 8-12 ft. high, the 



