XLVI. CONNARACK^ (BAKEK). 455 



3. ROUREA, Aubl. ; Bcntli. et Hook. f. Gen. PI. i. 432. 



Calyx qiiinqiiepartite, the divisions larger in fruit and imbricated, clasping 

 the base of the fruit. Petals 5, loii^ro,- than the calyx, usually iinf-ar-oblon;?. 

 Stamens 10, alternately lou<^cr and shorter, the fdiVoitn fdaun-iits united at 

 the base, the anthers didymous. Carpels 5, four usually imperfrct, the fifih 

 attenuated into a straight subulate style, the stigma subcapitate. Capsule 

 sessile, curved, clasped at the base by tiie calyx, chartaceous, 1 -seeded. 

 Seed erect ; the arillus erect, incomplete, slit in front, equalling or shorter 

 than the seed; testa shining, smooth; albumen 0. — Trees and abrubs. 



A considerable geuus, belting the world iu the tropics. 

 Follicle glabrous. 



Flowers in lax 6-12-flo\vcrcd racemes 1. R. iantaloides. 



Flowers very numerous, in dense panicles 2. Ji. mynaniAa. 



Follicle velvety. 



Leaflets 5-7 Z. li. Solanden. 



Lower leaflets 3-5 ; upper leaves simple 4. /^ heterofhylla. 



1. R. santaloides, TVigldand Am. Prod. FI. Ind. 144. Branches gla- 

 brous, terete. Petiole 1^-2 in. long, firm, glabrous. Leaflets 3-5, oblong or 

 obovate-cuspidate, 2-4 in. long, more than lialf as broad, the lateral ones sub- 

 opposite, on short petiolules ; texture coriaceous, both sides glabrous and 

 glossy, with the veins and veinlets in relief. Flowers in fascicled, lax, G-12- 

 flowered racemes, 1 in. or less long, the pedicels slender, glabrous, 2-3 lines 

 long, spreading from the axis at a right angle, minutely bracteate at the base. 

 Calyx campaimlate, I line deep, the divisions broad-ovate, imbricated, gla- 

 brous on the back, ciliated round the edge. Petals four times as long as the 

 calyx, yellowish, ligulate, with a space between them in the expanded flower. 

 Stamens equal, rather shorter than the petals, much longer than the styles. 

 Follicle solitary, oblong, 7-8 lines long, narrowed upwards, not compressed, 

 glabrous and considerably curved. R. Jfzelii and sanlaloides, Planch, in 

 Linnaea, xxiii. 418. Comiarus san(aloides,Y-d]i\, Symb. iii. 87; DC. Prod, 

 ii. 85. 



Upper Guinea. Sierra Leone, Afzelius in Herb. Brit. Mm. ! 



Our description is taken from the original specimen in the British Mustnra, tod wc can- 

 not distinguish the plant from the common Indian one. ^Ve have, at Kew, several speci- 

 mens from the Guinea coast, which may represent closely allied but distinct n>rcif5. but 

 none of them are complete enough to form a decided opinion upon. One gathered, by .Mann, 

 at Fernando Po, has the leaves much less coriaceous, with the veins not rai»ed, the ract-mc* 

 longer, with slender pedicels f-1 in. long, spreading at right angles. The other specimen* 

 (Barter, Mann, and Thomson) have the leaves varying in texture between those of the 

 forms already described, but the inflorescence cymose rather than raremose, with p«dicrU 

 varying from ^-1 in. long. The alliance of the Cnestts pinnata, of Heauvoii (Fl. Owarr, 

 i. 98. t. 60), Manoies FaHso/i, Planch, in Linnaca. xxiii. 438, is evidently, in our vic«, 

 here. 



2. R. myriantha, Ball/on iu Adans. viii. 198. Probably a tree; the 



branches and whole platit glabrous, the bark pale grey, longitudinally *tnaled. 

 the branches angular, probably nodding. Leaves mostly 5-folioIale^ I el.ole 

 slender, glabrous, the base suddetdy thickened an<l rugose. Leaflets ellip- 

 <icMl, the terminal one the largest, 4i in. long by half as broad, shortly acu- 



