458 XLVi. coNNARACEiE (baker). [Cotinarus. 



texture coriaceous, both sides quite glabrous, the veins hardly at all raised. 

 Flowers in ample terminal panicles, sometimes more than 1 ft. long, the 

 branches erecto-patent, finely ferruginous. Calyx under 1 line deep, the 

 divisions oblong, ferruginous on the back. Petals ligulate, three times as 

 long as the calyx, under I line broad. Longer stamens about equalling the 

 calyx. Pod f in. long, nearly as broad, the lower margin nearly straight, the 

 upper obliquely rounded, the faces subcompressed, striated, the ferruginous 

 stipes 2 lines long. — Planch, in Linngea, xxiii. 425. Omphalobium Thon- 

 ningii, DC. Prod. ii. 86. 



Upper Guinea. Fernando Po, 3fami ! Guinea, Brass ! Thonning ! 



lu Planchon's Monograph in the Linnsea, he hoth adopts Schumacher and Thonning's 

 Connarus floribundus, and gives the same specific name (1. c. p. 435) to a new species from 

 Dutch Guiana. Our plant of course will have to retain it. 



4. C. Thomsoniy Bake?-. A shrub, with woody, terete, glabrous 

 branches. Petioles slender, glabrous, 2 in. long. Leaflets 5, oblong or 

 slightly obovate, 2-3 in. long by half as broad, cuspidate, the base rounded, 

 the lateral ones opposite, on very short petioles ; texture subcoriaceous ; upper 

 surface glabrous, lower with fine, short, spreading, greyish pubescence, espe- 

 cially on the slender raised veins. Flowers in a copiously branched terminal 

 subcorymbose panicle. Pedicels slender, glabrous, often two or three times 

 as long as the calyx, which is not more than ^ line deep, the sepals ovate, 

 obtuse, nearly glabrous on the back. Petals ligulate, four times as long as 

 the calyx, the longest stamens falling short of them. Pod not seen. 



Upper Guinea. Old Calabar, Thomson ! 



Very like C. Mannii in general habit, leaves, and pubescence ; different in the petals. 



5. C. Sxneathxnanni, I)C. Prod. ii. 86 (^Omphalobium). A woody 

 climber, the branches terete, feiTuginous when young, glabrous when mature. 

 Petioles 2-3 in. long, incrassated at the base; leaflets 5-7, oblong, with a 

 slight obovate tendency, 4-5 in. long by rather less than half as broad, cus- 

 pidate, the base rounded, the lateral ones nearly or quite opposite ; texture 

 coriaceous ; upper surface glabrous, glossy, lower densely matted when young 

 with ferruginous silky tomentum, glabrous when mature. Flowers in copious 

 terminal panicles, the branches erecto-patent, densely ferruginous. Pedicels 

 stout, very short, densely ferruginous like the calyx, which is more than 1 

 line deep, the divisions ligulate-oblong. Petals ligulate, nearly \ in. long, 

 under ^ line broad. Longer stamens nearly equalling the corolla. " Pod f 

 in. long, three-quarters as broad, obliquely obovate, striated, ferruginous when 

 young." — C. Griffonianus, Baillon in Adans. vii. 235. 



Upper Guinea. Sierra Leone, Smeaihrnann, fide De Candolle ; Gaboon country, 

 Mann! Griffon du Bellay^ fide Baillon. 



Very doubtfully distinct from C. fioribundus. The rather larger flowers and leaves matted 

 beneath when young are the only difference. 



6. C. pubescens, Baker. A shrub, 15 ft. high ; the branches terete, 

 glabrous. Petioles 2-3 in. long ; leaflets 5-7, obovate-oblong, 4^5 in. long by 

 just half as broad, cuspidate, the base rounded, the lateral ones opposite, on 

 short petiolules ; texture subcoriaceous ; upper surface glabrous, lower with 



