Connarus.] XLVi. connabaceje (baker). 459 



rather spreading fine ferruginous pubescence, the veins fine but prominent. 

 Flowers in terminal subcoryrabose panicles. Pedicels slender, finely hairy, 

 equalling or shorter than the campanulate calyx, the divisions of which are 

 ovate-oblong, twice as long as broad, ciliated and finely silky on the back. 

 Petals not rnore than equalling the calyx, the stamens exserted. Pod not »c<n. 



Upper Guinea. Old Calabar, Mann I 



7. C. Manniiy Baker. A woody climber, the young branches finely 

 ferruginous. Petiole 2-3 in. long ; leaflets 5-7, oblong or slightly obovntc, 

 4-6 in. long by more than half as broad, cuspidate, the base broadly 

 rounded, sometimes subcordate, the lateral ones opposite, on short pclio- 

 lules ; texture subcoriaceous, upper surface glabrous, lower thinly matted all 

 over with very fine, silky, greyish pubescence, the veins slender but prominent, 

 ferruginous. Plowers in ample terminal panicles with eiecto-patent branches 

 clothed with fine, greyish-ferruginous, silky pubescence; pedicels sometimca 

 exceeding the calyx, which is 2 lines deep, densely malted on the back, the 

 divisions ligulate, under \ line broad. Corolla only a third as long as the 

 calyx, the petals ovate. Stamens equal and all equalling the calyx. Pod 

 not seen. Ovaries 5, hairy. 



Upper Gkdnea. On the river bank, Old Calabar, Mann ! 



5. MANOTES, Soland. ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. PL i. 433. 



Calyx quinquepartite, persistent, spreading in fruit, the divisions ovate- 

 lanceolate, unequal, valvate. Petals 6, ligulate, exceeding the calyx. Sta- 

 mens 10, arising from a short pubescent gynophore. Carpels 5, placed on 

 the apex of the gynophore, ovoid, attenuated into filiform styles, the stigma 

 subcapitate. Capsules 1-5, stipitate, velvety, obliquel^v turbmate, quite 

 Baked within. Seed erect ; testa subcarnose ; albumen copious ; erabrjo 

 oblong ; radicle short, superior. — Woody climber. 



Restricted to W. tropical Africa. 



Corolla 2 lines deep. 



Branches of the panicle slender, divaricated, nearly glabrous . . \. M. frpamsa. 



Branches of the panicle robust, erecto-pateut, densely ferruginous . 2. M. Gnfoniams. 



ConoUa 4 lines deep 8- '*'• i<>»9*/orm. 



1. M. expansa, Soland. fide Planch, in Lhin^a, xxiii. 439. A woody 

 climber, the branches mottled, like those of Byrsocarpu^, with copious, raised, 

 grey points, slightly grey-downy when young. Petioles 1 in. long ; Icafleli 

 .5-7, ovate or oblong, 1^2 in. long by half as broad, acuminate, the base 

 rounded, the lateral ones opposite, nearly sessile ; texture subconac^ous, under 

 surface slightly ferruginous on the veins when young, glabrous when n.ntunv 

 Flowers in a very lax panicle, the branches spreading at right angles, both 

 branches and the main rachis very slender, slightly grey-downy the ultimate 

 pedicels 2-3 lines long. Calyx campanulate, 1 line deep the divisions lan- 

 ceolate, reddish, nearly glabrous. Corolla twice as long as the calyx, the petals 

 whitish, ligulate. Longer stamen? equalling the petals. Lari>el8 5. velvety. 



