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0. SPBCIES? leaflets 5-8 in. elliptic and stout, branches almost black and very 

 polisbed, nerves 7-8 pair very strong beneath, panicle slender hoary, sepals ovate- 

 lanceolate, petals glabrous, — Sincapore or Penang, Walker. 



C, SPECIES? leaflets as in C. pi7inatus,hni nerves beneath very strong.— Anamallay 

 hills, alt. 3000 ft., Beddome. 



CoKSARVs? VELUTimis, Wall. Cat. 8536, consists of foliage and diseased fruit of 

 a Spatholobus, with one capsule of Ellifanthus toiiientosus, H. f. ^ . ' 



CoNNAKtJS? Jackianus, Wall Cat. 8562, is Cupania Jackiana, Hiern. 



CoNKAHTTS MiMosoiBES, Vahl Symb. iii. 87 ; DC, Prodr. ii. 85, from the Nicobai 

 Islands is indeterminate from description. - - • 



5. CNESTZS, Juss. 



Shrubs or trees. Leaves odd-pinnate ; leaflets many, quite entire. Floioers 

 solitary, fascicled or racemed, tomentose, rarely panicled, polygamous or dioe- 

 cious, rotate. Sepals 5, valvate or imbricate at the tip, spreaiding in fruit. Petals 

 5, shorter or longer than the calyx. Stamens 10, free. Ovaries 5-7, sessile ;: 

 styles short, stigmas capitellate. * Capsules 1-3, kidney-sbaped, cylindno 

 carved or waved, pubescent, often villous or clothed with rigid hairs withm- 

 Seed exarillate, albumen fleshy ; cotyledons thin.— DisxRiB. Tropical Asia and 

 Afirica; species about 10. . v 



1. C. ramlflora, Griff, Notul iv. 432 ; softly tomentose or villous, leaf- 

 lets 12-l&-pairs linear-oblong, tip rounded obtuse or subacute, base rounded ot 

 cordate. 0, flaminea, Griff. I.e. 433, t. 608, f. 2. 0. platantha, Griff, I.e. 434 1 

 Kurz in Jour. As. Soa. Beng. 1870, pt. ii. 75. Oonnarus foliolosus, Jack in Walh 

 Cat. 8529. C. igneus, Wall. Cat. 8528, (Connaracea). Rourea dasyphylla, Miq* 

 FL Jyid. Bat. Suppl. 528. 





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BiKMA, at Amherst, Chappedong and Eangoon, Wallieh. ■ Tenasserim, at Merguii 

 Griffith. MoTJLMF.iN and the S. Ant>ahans, Kurz, &c. Penang, Maxacca and 

 SiKCAPoRE, Wallich, Griffith, &c.— Disthib, Sumatra, Philippine Islands. 



A climbing shrub. Branches stout, woody. Leaves 1 ft.; petiole slender, pube- 

 scent; leaflets subsessile, 1^3 in., sometimes contracted below the middle, glabrous 

 and shining above; nerves 6-10 pairs, slender, arched. Panicles axillary, fascicled, 

 slender, much shorter than the leaves,densely clothed with pale soft tomentum. Flower^ 

 S ^ in. diam., rosy, ? smaller. Sepals linear-oblong, obtuse. Petals shorter in the 

 ^, longer in the ?, linear-oblong, obtuse or emarginate, glabrous. Filaments slender 

 glabrous. Ovaries 5-7 (usually 6, Griffith), hirsute; styles short. Capsules 1-3 in. 

 long, sessile, falcate, enlarged and tumid above the middle, obtuse, woody, rugged ; 

 valves thickly woody, velvety within. Seed short, broad, compressed, testa thin.-; 

 I think there can be no doubt but that this answers to the three species of Cnestis 

 de»€ribed by Griffith and cited above, though his names are not attached to any of 

 his specimens. It has been distributed as Cnestis foliolosus and C, igneus, Planch, 

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