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basi ovarii erecta. Capsule (abortu sspe solitariz) sessiles. 
Semen 'exalbuminosum. — Connarus, DC.; Byrsocarpus, 
Schum. et Thonn. ; Anisostemon, Turczan. 
3. Cnestis. Calyx valvatus. Ovaria et styli 5. Ovula e basi 
ovarii erecta. Capsule (abortu ssepe solitariz) sessiles. Semen 
albuminosum. 
Since Brown published his observations in his celebrated 
Appendix to Tuckey’s Congo, as little has been added to our 
knowledge of the affinities of the Order as to that of the genera 
themselves. Their intimate connection with Averrhoa and the 
Ozalidee on the one hand, and with Copaifera and allied 
Leguminose on the other, so clearly pointed out by him, has 
only been further confirmed. Planchon has indeed proposed 
the uniting Ozalidee, Connaracee and Leguminose into one 
group, or even Order, but for this there appear to be no better 
grounds than there would be for uniting Rubiacee with Scro- 
phularinee, Gentianee and Apocynee, on account of the inter- 
mediate Loganiacee. Arnott, and latterly Lindley, in order to 
obviate the anomaly of placing an Order where the stamens are 
almost always very distinctly hypogynous, in a group of pro- 
fessedly perigynous Orders, have removed Connaracee from 
their usual place next to Leguminose to the neighbourhood of 
Ozalidee and Zanthozylee. That may be their best situation, 
but as the real distinction between hypogynous and perigynous 
insertion of the stamens, important as it usually is, is not yet 
Correctly understood, and as in this respect Leguminose them- 
selves are variable, I have preferred leaving Connaracee in their 
old place. Several species, both of Rowrea and of Cnestis, have 
Very evident stipules; almost all Leguminose of the tribe of 
Cynometree have the flowers nearly or quite as regular as in 
Connaracee ; and in Copaifera, besides the arillus, we may 
observe the radicle at a considerable distance from the hilum on 
the back of the seed near its base, although not so far as in 
Connarus, where it is also on the back of the seed, but near its 
summit. 
this as well as in the greater number of true Connari, as mentioned by 
Vinnzus in his generic character. 
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