Oonnarus.1 XLix. CONNARACE^. (J. D. Hooker.) 51 



Prodr, n, 86. 0. indiciim 

 Connaracea, Wall. Cat. 853 



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Western Peninsula, from the Concan to Travancor. Ceylon, abundant. 



Leaflets 3-4 by l^lj in., glossy above, reticulations faint, quite glabrous^ 

 Panicles densely pubescent. Flowers ^ in. long. Sepals ovate-oblong, subacute, 

 pubescent. Pei!a/5 twice as long, slightly pubescent on the back. Longer Ji laments 

 three times as long as the shorter, all antheriferous. Capsule dark- coloured, rounded 

 at both sutures, dehiscing tardily, contracted but neither acute nor apiculate at tlie 

 tip. Testa black, shining. Very near the C oli^ophyllus of Penang, but the capsule 

 18 quite -ghbrous within. —I think there can be no doubt that this, which is clearly 

 iiaraarck*s C. pinnatus, is also Linnseus's C. monocarpus^ which being one of the 

 commoriest plants in Ceylon, cannot have escaped Burmann's notice. Wight & Arnott 

 describe it as having a sessile capsule, no doubt from Rlieede's figure, which, if it 



belongs tp this plant, is a very bad one, also as having a glabrous calyx, which is not 



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2. C. Wlg'Iitli, Hook. /. ; leaves elliptic-ovate obtusely pointed^ nerves 

 ?^ on each side arched slender, capsules \\ by f in. compressed, base narrowed 

 ^^? ^^® stalk shining hardly pointed. Eourea? sclerocarpa, W. ^ A. in 

 ^mCat 934. (See note under Pongamia, W. ^ A. Prodr. 262.) 



; Western Peninsula, Wight-, the Concan, Stocks. 



Leaflets 3-3^ by \\-l% in., coriaceous, hardly shining, finely reticulated, quite 

 sabrous. Capsules pal© chestnut coloured, shining, rounded, strongly striate on the 

 ^eotral and dorsal faces, narrowly keeled at the sutures, early dehiscing, pale and 

 quite glabrous within.^ — I have described this from a fruiting specimen. The capsule 



ambles that of C. paniculatus, but is (juite glabrous within. 



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K ^'*^^^®*> Hook, f. ; leaflets elliptic-lanceolate obtusely acuminate, 

 erves 6-7 on each side faint, capsule 4 by ^ in. turgidly oblong rounded at the 



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£ESTRiiN Peninsula, the Concan, Stocks ; the Eamghat near Belgaum, Ritchie. , 

 Pube'^ ^^^ ^~*^ by li-l| in., finely reticulated, quite glabrous. Panicles rusty- 

 ion»^*^^?T^* -^-^ower^ crowded, i in. long. Sepals ovate-oblong. Petals about twice a 

 «olo' ^^P^^^^ quite as broad from suture to suture as across the valves, dark- 



the^^li-^^^^^^^^^ ^*' ^^^ ^^®®' "^'^^*^^ ^^ "^^^y rounded, and suddenly contracted into 

 enivi ^ /"""^^^ capsule much resembles that of C latifolim, Wall., but is more 

 ^^ate at the base and larger. " r , ::. - ; ; 



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known ' ^^. *^^ capsules more or less pubescent or velvety within (un- 



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 f^eq/lets more or less pubescent beneath. 



i»dlen^' ^''''^Srln.cus, Jack in Mai. Misc. 2, vii. 37; branches panicles 

 ^uini ^f ^ densely rusty tomentose, leaflets 7 oblong or oblanceolate 



Btalk^O ^^^oose, capsides 2-2^ V U in- compressed velvety narrowed into the 



aracea. Wall. Cat. 8530. 



Denl^f^ f ^NiNsuLA, Siucaporo, Malacca, and Penang, Jack, ^c. 

 <^riaceou ^ clothed with rusty velvety tomentum. Leaflets 3-6 by 1^ 2| in., thickly 

 landed ^' ^*^®* ^°^ P^^^scent above when young, glabrate above when old, base 

 Very iZ ?^ ®V^c<^i^te ; petiolules very short and stout; nerves 6-8 pairs, arched, 

 ^^t 3^/^^^^ ^^<^^® and raised beneath. Pan/cte shorter than the leaves very 

 ^^eat-smt^"T^ iiearly^in. long. Sepals ohlong. Petals twice as long, narrowlv 

 *l^ost w i? Pilaments glabrous, shorter, half as long as the others. CapsuU 



P^^f'scent ■ u • ^®^*^'^y dehiscing, hardly pointed, densely tomentose, valves^finel;^ 



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