162 ILLUSTRATIONS OF INDIAN BOTANY. 
mediate between B. polyphyllum and intermedium, having the small obliquely pointed hairy 
leaflets of the former, and the smaller number of pairs, 20 to 30, of the latter. 
EXPLANATION OF PLATE 62. 
1. Byophitum Candolianum, (R. W.) natural size. : 
6. Ovary divided vertically. 
2. Calyx, ovary, styles and stamens, 
: —— transversely, 5-celled, 
3. Corolla, the petals partially cohering, 8. Leaflets of B. Candolianum. 
4. Shorter stamens, back and front views * . Sensitivum, 
5. One of the longer stamens with its attached scale, 10, B. polyphyllum. 
XLVI.—CONNARACEM, 
Much difference of opinion seems to exist amon : 
orders this one ought to occupy. Jussieu placed. the genus Connarus among the Terebin- 
thacee, DeCandolle retains it and the other genera composing order in the same family, form- 
ing of them his tribe Connaracee. Brown first proposed its Separation as a distinct family, in 
which he has been followed by most modern writers, who generally retain it among the peri- 
gynous orders placing it between Terebinthacew and Leguminosee, to some of the extreme 
forms of the latter of which orders, the character of its fruit nearly allies it. Dr. Brown how- 
ever states it as his belief, in which I perfectly coincide, that the insertion of the floral a ppen- 
es is hypogynous and not perigynous. 
._~,418 opinion of the highest living Botanical authority, 
mination, induced Dr. Arnott, contrary to the general practice, to bring it here. The propriety 
of this arrangement there seems, at first sight, some reason to question, but it derives so much 
g Botanists as to the place in the series of 
is 
scarcely to leave a doubt of the propriety of the chang 
Connarus, 
The following amended character was drawn up by Dr. Arnott for our Prodromus. 
“ Flowers bi- (rarely uni) sexual. Ca yx 5-parti 
cate or valvular. Petals 5, equal, inserted into the base of the 
as the petals, rarely with half of them steril 
base into a glandular ring. Ovaria simple and solitary 
collateral, ascending ; Styles terminal 
obtuse, usually dilated, Capsules 1-5, dehiscing long 
solitary, erect, sometimes with an arillus. Albumen none, or fleshy 
ogee from the hilum ; cotyledons thick when there is no al 
* dotted, exstipulate.” oe — resinous Juices. Leaves compound, alternate, 7 
a ; he affinities have been in icated above so far as they are known, but still 
occupy further eneec cnet Whether they are yet well understood—on which account I will not 
_ Sceupy turther space in the discussion of this question, — e 
