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Table of distribution of Indo-Malayan, Philippine and Chinese Connaracea?. 



Genera. 



Aijrlara 



Connants 



Ciiestis 



Ellipanthua __ 



Rnurca 



Rowreoprti 



T:rniocldnrna 



Troostxoyckia 



Total __ 



India. 1 



35 



Malay 

 Peninsula. 1 



Malay Ar- 

 chipelago. 3 



China.* 



Philip- 

 pines. 



40 



KEY TO THE GENERA. 



1. Pistils solitary; follicles with a distinct stipe. 



2. Leaves pinnate, the leaflets 3 to 7 ; scandent shrubs 1. Connarus 



2. Leaflet solitary; small trees 2. Ellipanthus 



1. Pistils 2 to 7; follicles sessile. 



2. Pistils 5, but usually only 1 perfect; follicle not rugose; seeds exallmminous; 



leaves pinnate 3. Rourea 



2. Pistils 2 to 5, perfect; follicles rugose or tubercled; seeds exallmminous; 



leaves trifoliolate 4. Ayelaea 



2. Pistils 5 to 7; follicles densely pubescent; seeds albuminous, the aril thin. 



5. Cues lis 

 1. CONNARUS Linn. 



1. Leaflets 3; follicles large, woody, horned 1. C. trifoliatus 



1. Leaflets usually more than three, or if three, the follicles coriaceous, not horned. 



2. Indumentum stellate-plumose 2. C. stellatus 



2. Indumentum not stellate. 



3. Bracts and bracteoles linear-cyclindric, the former frequently 1 cm long 



and exceeding tin- Sowers 3. V. bracteatus 



3. Bracts and bracteoles not prominent. 



4. Leaflets glabrous ; follicles small, coriaceous or subcoriaceous. 



5. Leaflets rounded, acute, or only broadly and obscurely acuminate, not 

 prominently glandular-punctate beneath. 

 (>. Margins of the petals adherent above the ovary, forming a short 

 tube above the inflated base; follicles glabrous inside. 



4. C. cnlioncnsis 

 6. Petals free throughout; follicles more or less pubescent inside. 



7. Base of the leaflets broad, rounded or subcordate, the apex broad, 



rounded, entire 5. 0. obtusifolius 



7. Base of the leaflets narrowed, acute or obtuse, the apex usually 

 shortly and obscurely acuminate, slightly refuse. 



6. C. neurocalyx 

 5. Leaflets strongly acuminate, usually prominently glandular-punctate 

 beneath. 



'Hooker f. Fl. Brit. Ind. 2 (1876) 46-56. 

 -King in Journ. As. Soc. Beng. 66 2 (1897) 1-21. 

 "Boerlage Handl. Fl. Ned. Ind. 1 (1890) 313-321. 

 4 Forbes & Hemsl. in Journ. Linn. Soc. Bot. 23 (IS 



!) 149-150. 



