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XLVI. CONNARACEiE. 



[Connarus. 



Order XLVI. CONNARACE^. 



Scandent shrubs with pinnate leaves, or trees with simple 

 leaves (one leaflet) [Ellipanthus) . Flowers small in axillary racemes, 

 panicles or cymes, rarely unisexual. Calyx 5-lobed, usually per- 

 sistent, often pink. Petals 5, linear or oblong, white, imbricate. 

 Stamens 5 or 10, those opposite petals shorter and imperfect; 

 filaments connate at base or free. Disc o or small. Pistils 5, rarely 

 more or fewer, ovoid, hair}^ i-celled; ovules 2; styles filiform. 

 Fruit I to 3 ; follicles often stalked dehiscing on lower edge, usually 

 red. Seed i (rarely 2) arillate. All tropics {King, Journ. As. 

 Soc. Beng. Ixvi. (2), p. i). 



Pistil I . 



Leaves pinnate ; climbers . , . . .1. Connarus 



Leaflets i ; trees . . . . . .2. Ellipanthus 



Pistils 5, I only perfect ; leaves pinnate. 



Calyx lobes persistent, accrescent imbricate in fruit 3. Rourea 



Calyx lobes not accrescent or imbricate . . 4. Roureopsis 



Pistils 2 to 5, perfect. 



Calyx imbricate ; follicles rugose or tubercled . 5. Agel^a 



Calyx valvate ; follicles smooth . . . .6. T.«NiocHLiENA 



Pistils 5 to 7 ; follicles i to 3 . . . . •7- Cnestis 



1. CONNARUS, Linn. 



Sarmentose or scandent shrubs. Leaves unequally pinnate; 

 leaflets 5 or 3, rarely more, coriaceous. Panicles terminal or 

 axillary. Flowers small, numerous, white or pink. Sepals 5, 

 imbricate. Petals 5, linear. Stamens 10, 5 shorter, and usually 

 antherless. Ovary i, pubescent; style slender. Stigma capitate; 

 folHcle oblique, stipitate, broadest at the tip, red or yellow, often 

 pubescent inside. Seed i, flat, oblong, arillate. Species about 80, 

 tropical Asia, Africa and America. 



Leaves beneath pubescent. 



Leaves above pubescent, beneath densely red- 

 pubescent ; follicles tomentose . . • (i) C, ferrugineus 



Leaves above and follicles glabrous; petals 

 glabrous (2) C. semidecandrus 



Leaves more rigid ; petals tomentose . . (3) C. Grifflthii 



Leaflets quite glabrous, ovate to elliptic lanceolate, 

 2 to 4 in. long. 



Follicles sub-cylindric narrowed to base i -5 by 



•25 in. ; leaflets ovate stiff . . . • (4) C. oligophyllus 



Follicles flat, rounded, oblong, i"25 by i in.; 



leaflets elliptic cuspidate, rather thin . . (5) C. villosus 



Leaves over 6 in. long. 



Panicles lax, over 9 in. across; leaflets rather 



thin; fruit 2 in. long, obovoid, tip recurved. (6) C. ellipticus 



Panicle about 7 in. long; leaflets stiff cori- 

 aceous ; pod oblanceolate, tip blunt not 

 recurved, 2 in. long . . . . . (7) C. grandis 



