Connarus. MONADELPHIA DECANDRIA. 139 
lets about a foot by six inches broad. They are also hairy, 
particularly while young. 
MONADELPHIA DECANDRIA, 
MELOCHIA. Schreb. gen. N. 1110. 
Calyx somewhat double. Petals five, spreading. ila- 
ments subulate. Styles five. Capsules five-celled, with a 
single seed in each, 
1. M. corchorifolia, Willd. iii, 604, 
M. corchorifolia, Dill, lth, t. 176. Si 217. 
Beng. Tiki-okra, 
Tsjeru uren, Rheed. Mal. ix. t. 73. ‘bad. 
_ Perennial, ramous, Leaves sub-cordate, plaited, crenulate. 
Plows crowded into sub-sessile, terminal heads, intermixed 
with subulate bractes. 
Common every where all over India. Flowers and ripens 
its seed during the rainy and cold seasons. 
- CONNARUS. Schreb. gen. N. 1116. 
Calyx five-parted! Corol five-petalled. Style single, Germ 
one- celled, from one to two-seeded ; attachment sub-inferior, 
Capsule superior, one-celled, er ved, one-seeded. “Em- 
bryo inverse, without perisperm. 
1. C. paniculatus, R. 
Arboreous. Leaves pinnate ; leaflets five or seven, ovate, 
oblong, obtusely. acuminate, glossy, Panicles terminal and 
axillary ; ; flowers decandrous ; petals linear (without bristles 
at the base.) 
A large timber tree, a native of Chitegons, © where it Dlos- : 
soms in June. a 
Young shoots. clothed with \a ‘Tittle fe rugin ae 
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