Ellipanihus.] 



XLVI. CONNARACE^. 



549 



(4) E. gibbosus King, I.e. 10. 



Small tree 10 to 16 ft. tall, 2 to 3 in. through. Leaves mem- 

 branous, oblong-elliptic shortly caudate-acuminate, base cuneate 

 edge undulate ; nerves 7 to 8 pairs prominent beneath, 4-5 to 6-5 in. 

 long, 175 to 275 in. wide; petioles -5 to -6 in. long, tomentose. 

 Cymes dense, short, few-flowered, -4 in. long, hairy. Calyx-lobes 

 lanceolate. Petals little longer tomentose outside. Follicle oblong, 

 compressed with a long conical beak, base gibbous above and 

 contracted into a curved stalk, tomentose, i to 1-5 in. long, -4 in. 

 wide ; stalk i in. long. Hab. Hill forests ; Johor, Gunong Pantai ; 

 Perak, Gapis (Curtis) ; Ulu KerHng ; Ulu Slim and Kinta (Kunstler) ; 

 Tapah (Wray) ; Waterloo (Curtis). 



3. ROUREA, Aubl. 



Large woody lianes. Leaves unequally pinnate ; leaflets rarely 

 I, often numerous, coriaceous. Racemes or panicles axillary, 

 numerous. Flowers small, white; pedicels slender. Sepals 5, 

 orbicular enlarged in fruit. Petals 5, linear-oblong. Stamens 10; 

 filaments connate at base; ovaries 5, 4 usually imperfect; style 

 slender; follicle sessile, curved. Seed arillate. Species about 50, 

 all tropics. 



Leaflets not more than 11, petiolulate ovate. 

 Leaflet usually i, rarely 3 

 Leaflet 3 to 9, rarely 11. 

 Leaflets glaucous beneath 

 Leaflets not glaucous. 

 Leaves 3 to 7 in. long ; 

 late; flowers '25 in. long 

 Leaves 3"5 to 5 in. long; 

 ovate 

 Leaflets very numerous, small, 



Leaflets blunt acuminate, 2 to 3'25 in. long, pubes- 

 cent beneath 

 Leaflets broad at tip, bifid, "5 



pubescent beneath 

 Leaflets broad round-tipped. 

 Beneath rusty-silky . 

 Beneath glabrous 



leaflets ovate-lanceo- 



leaflets 3 (or 5) broad 



oblong sessile. 



to "ys in. long, sparsely 



(i) R. anomala 



(2) R. acuminata 



(3) R. pulchella 



(4) R. humilis 



(5) R. rugosa 



(6) R. similis 



(7) R. fulgens 



(8) R. concolor 



(i) R. anomala King, I.e. 11. 



Big liane, glabrous. Leaves with i to 3 leaflets, coriaceous, 

 ovate-elliptic shortly blunt caudate-acuminate, base round broad; 

 nerves 6 pairs, 3 to 4*5 in. long, i'6 to 2*2 in. wide; petiolules 

 •2 in. long or less. Racemes slender, lax, 3 in. long, several together. 

 Flowers 35 in. long, red and white on pedicels as long. Calyx- 

 lobes ovate-orbicular, puberulous outside. Petals linear-oblong, 

 three times as long. Follicle oblique ovoid blunt, yellow tinted 

 red, I in. long. Seed-aril red. Hab. Perak, Sungei Rayah, Goping 

 (Kunstler). 



