456 XLVi. coNNARACE.E (baker). [Rourea. 



ininate, the base cuneate, entire or sinuated, subcoriaceous, smooth and 

 shining on the upper surface, much paler below, penninerved, the veins not 

 prominent. Flowers closely crowded, the clusters arranged in copiously 

 branched axillary spikes. Calyx-teeth oblong-lanceolate, accrescent and ap- 

 pressed to the carpels. Petals linear, involute, much narrower than the 

 sepals. 



Vpper Guinea. Gaboon, Griffon du Bellay. 



3. R. Solanderi, Baker. Branches woody, glabrous. Petiole above 1 

 in. long, firm, woody. Leaflets 5-7, the terminal one oblong, 3-3^ in. long, 

 1^ in. broad, acuminate, the base scarcely rounded, the lateral ones opposite, 

 on short petiolules, the lowest pair considerably shorter ; texture coriaceous, 

 both sides glabrous. Flowers in short racemes. Corolla not seen. Fruit- 

 calyx nearly 3 lines deep, clasping tightly the base of the follicle, coriaceous, 

 glabrous, the divisions ovate, slightly imbricated. Follicle solitary, sessile, 

 7-8 lines long, oblong, narrowed upwards, considerably curved, finely brown- 

 velvety, not compressed. 



Upper Guinea. Sierra Leone, Afzel'ms I 



lu the only specinaen we have seen, which is in the British Museum, there is a soUtary 

 flower on a woody finely villose pedicel, more than 1 in. long, with the remains of several 

 other flowers sessile upon it. 



4. R. heterophylla. Baker. Branches strong, woody, terete, glabrous. 

 Lower leaves 3-5-foliolate, on firm glabrous petioles, 1^-2 in. long, the upper 

 ones simple. Terminal leaflet oblong, 3-35- in. long by about half as broad, 

 the base rounded, subcuspidate ; texture coriaceous, both sides glabrous, the 

 lateral ones opposite or subopposite on short petiolules. Flowers in sessile or 

 stalked few-flowered cymes, the peduncle when present slightly grey-downy, 

 the pedicels very short, with small bracts at the base. Calyx 2 lines deep, 

 the divisions ovate, bluntish, finely grey-downy. Pod nearly an inch long, 

 obovate, coriaceous, grey-velvety, slightly curved, not compressed, clasped 

 lightly by the glabrous dilated calyx. 



Upper Gruinea. Sierra Leone, Afzelius ! in Herb. Brit. Mus. 



4. CONNARUS, Linn. ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. PI. i. 432. 



Calyx quinquepartite, the imbricated divisions not accrescent, clasping the 

 stalk of the capsiilo. Petals 5, sometimes slightly cohering. Stamens 10, 

 the alternate ones shorter and sometimes abortive, the filiform filaments united 

 at the base, the anthers didymous. Disk or thin, annular, surrounding the 

 outside of the base of the filaments. Carpels 5, four usually small or defi- 

 cient, the fifth narrowed into a subulate style, the stigma subcapitate. Cap- 

 sule obliquely oblong or obovate, subcompressed, stipitate, coriaceous, dehis- 

 cing by the ventral suture, l-seeded; Seed erect, with a lobed incomplete 

 arillus adnate to the lateral hilum ; testa polished ; albumen 0. — Trees or 

 shrubs, often subscandent. 

 ' A considerable genus, belting the world in the tropics. 



Petals two to four times as long as the calyx. 



Leaflets 1-3 1. C. africanus. 



