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Okdek XLIX. CONNARACEH:. (By J. D. Hooker.) 





Erect or climl»Ing shrubs or trees. Leaves alternate, exstipiilate, 1-3-folio- 

 late or odd-pinnate ; leaflets quite entire. Floivers racemed or panicled, regular 

 or sulregular, usually bisexual. Calyx S-lobed or -partite, usually persistent, 

 imbricate or valvate. Fetah 5, usually narrow, free or slightly coliering, very 

 xarely valvate. Stamens perigynous or bj^ogj-nous, sometimes declinate, 5 or 

 10, those opposite the petals often shorter and imperfect ; filaments frequently 

 connate at the base. Dish 0, or small annular or incomplete. Carpels 5, rarely 

 1-3 or G-J^, globose, hirsute, 1-celled ; styles subulate or filiform, stigmas 

 capitellate simple or 2-lobed ; ovules 2, collateral, ascending, orthotropous. 

 Fruit usually of 1 rarely 2-3 sessile or stalked 1- rarely 2-seeded follicles. 

 Seed erect, arillate or not, testa thick sometimes arilliform below the middle, 

 aril various ; cotyledons fleshy in the exalbmuinous, leafy m the albuminous 

 seeds, radicle superior, rarely ventral.^DisTBiB. 12 genera, all tropical. 



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CoxxARACKi, "Wall, Cat. 8o38, B. is an undeterminable apparently ConnaracGOUS 

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CoxxARACEA ? "Wall. Cat. 853-1, is Blalium platyscpalum, Eaker. 



CoxNARACEA ? Wall. Cat. 8550, is Cu])ania glabrata, Ktirz. 



CoxNARACEA ? "Wall. Cat. 8553, consists of tlio foliage of a Wlllovghbeia and 

 fruit of a Coiiuarus, 



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Caly.v imbricate." Seeds exalbuminous. 



Calyx not clasping the l>aso of the capsule. Seeds exarillate , 

 Calj-x accrescent, clasping the base of the sessile capside. 

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Cidyx sliglaly accrescent, not clasping the base of the sessile 

 eapsiile. Seeds exarillate . ■ . . " ,» ']: , , ". . \ . 



-Calyx not accrescent, clasping the pedicel of the stipitate cap- 

 sule. Seeds arillate . *^, . :\ ' i . , . 



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Teibe II. Cnestideae^ Calyv valvafe. ^ Seeds albuminous or exalbu- 

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Calyx 5-partite, exceeding the petals. Carpels 5,' sessile. ' Cap- 

 sule hispid -within. SckIs albuminous . . .' ■ / ^ 



Calyx 5-partltc,rcvolutc. Petals uarrow. Carpels 5. Seeds ex- 

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Calyx 5-partite, erect. Petals oblong. Stamens 5, perfect. 

 Carpel 1. Seeds exalbuminous . • . • . . 



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Erect or scandent shrubs. Leaves H-foliolate. JPaniclos or Y^iccmesSxi^rj. 

 Cahjx 5-partite, not accrescent nor embracing the fruit, imbricate or subvalvata- 

 jPfif/& lanceolate or li^ulate, obtupe, free or connate at the middle, • Stamens 6 

 or 10. Disk ^-annular or 0. Carpels 3-5. Capsules 1-2, sessile or shortly 

 stalked, coriapeous, rugose or lamellate. . ^ee-rf erect, exalbuminoiii; 'tesU 

 arilliform below the middle. — Disxbib, 9 species, African and ^Vsiatic, -..r ^ 



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