220 A FLORA OF MANILA 
64. CONNARACEAE! (CONNARUS OR PALO SANTO FAMILY) 
Erect or climbing shrubs or small trees. Leaves alternate, exstipulate, 
_ 1- to 3-foliolate or odd-pinnate; leaflets entire. Flowers racemose or pani- 
cled, regular, perfect. Calyx 5-lobed, persistent. Petals 5, free or nearly 
so. Stamens 5 or 10, those opposite the petals often shorter or imperfect 
’ Disk none or small. Carpels usually 5, rarely more or less, free or nearly 
so, 1-celled, 2-ovuled. Fruit of 1, rarely 2 or 38, sessile or stalked, 1- or 
2-seeded follicles, the testa usually arilliform. 
Genera 17, species about 175, all tropical; 6 genera and 17 species in 
the Philippines. 
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1. ROUREA Aublet 
Scandent shrubs with odd-pinnate leaves, the leaflets entire. Panicles 
axillary. Flowers small. Sepals 5, orbicular, somewhat enlarged and 
clasping the base of the ripe capsules. Petals 5, usually linear-oblong. 
Stamens 10; filaments connate below. Ovaries 5, 4 usually imperfect. 
Capsules sessile, curved. Seeds arillate. (A name for one or some of 
the species in French Guiana.) 
Species about 50, 2 in the Philippines. 
1. R. erecta (Blanco) Merr. (R. multiflora Planch). Camagsa (Tag.); 
Palo Santo (Sp.-Fil.). 
A suberect or scandent, woody, glabrous shrub 1 to 3 m high. Leaves 
15 to 25 cm long, the leaflets 12 to 20, oblong-ovate to oblong-lanceolate, 
4to8cm long. Panicles axillary, many-flowered, 5 to 15 cm long. Flowers 
white or pink, 5 to 7 mm long, very numerous. Pods red, about 1 cm 
long, sessile, somewhat curved, split down one side, surrounded at the 
base by the calyx. (FI. Filip. pl. 140.) 
In thickets, San Juan del Monte, fl. April-June; widely distributed in 
the Philippines. Endemic. 
2. CONNARUS Linnaeus 
Seandent shrubs with odd-pinnate leaves, the leaflets 3 to 5 or more, 
entire. Panicles axillary and terminal. Flowers small. Sepals clasping 
the pedicles of the capsules. Petals 5, slightly enlarged upward. Stamens 
10, 5 alternating ones shorter than the others. Ovaries 5, pubescent, 
one perfect, the other 4 imperfect. Capsules oblique, inflated, broader 
upward, the valves glabrous or pubescent within. Seeds arillate. 
Species about 70, all tropical; 10 in the Philippines, a single one in 
our area. 
1. C. neurocalyx Planch. Sandaleno (Tag.). 
A scandent woody vine 2 to 6 m high, nearly glabrous except the 
inflorescence. Leaves 25 to 30 cm long. Leaflets 5 to 7, oblong, blunt- 

‘For a consideration of the known Philippine genera and species see 
Merrill, E. D., “A Revision of Philippine Connaraceae.” Philip. Journ. Sci. 
4 (1909) Bot. 117-128. 
