118' MERRILL. 



Table of distribution of Indo-Malayan, Philippine and Chinese Connaracece. 



Genera. 



India. 1 



Malay Malay Ar- 

 Penlnsula.2 chipeiago.^ 



China. < 



Philip- 

 pines. 



Agelaea 



Connarus 



Cnestis 



Etlipanthus — 



Rourea 



Roureopsis 



Taniiochlaena 

 Troostwyckia 



Total .. 



35 



40 



KEY TO THE GENERA. 



L Pistils solitary; follicles with a distinct stipe. 



2. Leaves pinnate, the leaflets 3 to 7; scandent shrubs 1. Connarus 



2. Leaflet solitary; small trees 2. Ellipanthus 



1. Pistils 2 to 7; follicles sessile. 



2. Pistils 5, but usually only 1 perfect; follicle not rugose; seeds exalbuniinous; 



leaves pinnate 3. Rourea 



2. Pistils 2 to 5, perfect; follicles rugose or tubercled; seeds exalbuniinous; 



leaves trifoliolate 4. Agelaea 



2. Pistils 5 to 7 ; follicles densely pubescent; seeds albuminous, the aril thin. 



5. Cnestis 

 1. CONNARUS Linn. 



1. Leaflets 3; follicles large, woody, horned 1. C. trifoUatus 



1. Leaflets usually more than three, or if three, the follicles coriaceous, not horned. 



2. Indumentum stellate-plumose 2. C. stellatus 



2. Indumentum not stellate. 



3. Bracts and bracteoles linear-cyclindric, the former frequently 1 cm long 



and exceeding the flowers 3. C. bracteatus 



3. Bracts and bracteoles not prominent. 



4. Leaflets glabrous; follicles small, coriaceous or subcoriaceous. 



5. Leaflets rounded, acute, or only broadly and obscurely acuminate, not 

 prominently glandular-punctate beneath. 

 6. Margins of the petals adherent above the ovary, forming a slmrt 

 tube above the inflated base; follicles glabrous inside. 



4. C CKlitjiioisis 

 G. Petals free throughout; follicles more or less pubescent inside. 



7. Base of the leaflets broad, rounded or subcordate, the apex broad, 



rounded, entire 5. C. obtusifolius 



7. Base of the leaflets narrowed, acute or obtuse, the apex usually 

 shortly and obscurely acuminate, slightly retuse. 



6. G. neurocahjx 

 5. Leaflets strongly acuminate, usually promiiieMlly glandular-punctate 

 beneath. 



•Hooker f. PI. P.rit. Ind. 2 (1870) 4(i-5G. 



-King in Jouni. A.s. ISoc. Beng. 66' (1807) 1-21. 



'Boerlage Handl. Fl. Ned. Ind. 1 (1890) 313-321. 



♦ Forbes & Hemsl. in .lourn. Linn. Soc. Bot. 23 ( 188G) 140 lod. 



