46 XLIX. CONNARACE.E. (J. D. Hooker.) [Agelcea. 



ORDER XLIX. CONN A HA CESS. (By J. D. Hooker.) 



Erect or climbing shrubs or trees. Leaves alternate,, exstipulate, 1-3-folio- 

 late or odd-pinnate ; leaflets quite entire. Flowers racemed or panicled, regular 

 or subregular, usually bisexual. Calyx 5-lobed or -partite, usually persistent, 

 imbricate or valvate. Petals 5, usually narrow, free or slightly cohering, very 

 rarely valvate. Stamens perigynous or hypogynous, sometimes declinate, 5 or 

 10, those opposite the petals often shorter and imperfect j filaments frequently 

 connate at the base. Disk 0, or small annular or incomplete. Carpels 5, rarely 

 1-3 or 6-7, globose, hirsute, 1-celled ; styles subulate or filiform, stigmas 

 capitellate simple or 2-lobed ; ovules 2, collateral, ascending, orthotropous. 

 Fruit usually of 1 rarely 2-3 sessile or stalked 1- rarely 2-seeded follicles. 

 Seed erect, arillate or not, testa thick sometimes arilliforrn below the middle, 

 aril various ; cotyledons fleshy in the exalbuminous, leafy in the albuminous 

 seeds, radicle superior, rarely ventral. DISTRIB. 12 genera, all tropical. 



The following Wallichian species of this order are to be rejected. 



CONNARACEA, Wall. Cat. 8538, B. is an undeterminable apparently Connaraceous 

 plant. 



CONNARACEA ? Wall. Cat. 8534, is Dialium platysepalum, Baker. 

 CONNARACEA ? Wall. Cat. 8550, is Cupania glabrata, Kurz. 



CONNARACEA ? Wall. Cat. 8553, -consists of the foliage of a WillougUbeia and 

 fruit of a Conn-arus. 



TRIBE I. Connareae. Calyx imbricate. Seeds exalbuminous. 



Calyx not clasping the base of the capsule. Seeds exarillate . 1. AGELJEA. 



Calyx accrescent, clasping the base of the sessile capsule. 



Seeds arillate 2. RO'UREA. 



-Calyx slightly accrescent, not clasping the base of the sessile 



capsule. Seeds exarillate 3. ROUREOPSIS. 



Calyx not accrescent, clasping the pedicel of the stipitate cap- 

 sule. Seeds arillate 4. CONNARCS. 



TRIBE II. Cnestideae. Calyx valvate. Seeds albuminous or exalbu- 

 minous. 



Calyx 5-partite, exceeding the petals. Carpels 5, sessile. Cap- 

 sule hispid within. Seeds albuminous . 5. CNBSTIS. 



Calyx 5-partite, revolute. Petals narrow. Carpels 5. Seeds ex- 

 albuminous 6. TJEXIOCHLJEXA. 



Calyx 5-partite, erect. Petals oblong. Stamens 5, perfect. 



Carpel 1. Seeds exalbuminous 7. ELLIPANTHUS. 



1. A GELJE A, Soland. 



Erect or scandent shrubs. Leaves 3-foliolate. Panicles or racemes axillary. 

 Calyx 5-partite, not accrescent nor embracing the fruit, imbricate or subvalvate. 

 Petals lanceolate or ligulate, obtuse, free or connate at the middle. Stamens 5 

 or 10. Disk ^-annular or 0. Carpels 3-5. Capsules 1-2, sessile or shortly 

 stalked, coriaceous, rugose or lamellate. Seed erect, exalbuminous; testa 

 arilliform below the middle. DISTRIB. 9 species, African and Asiatic. 



1. A. vestita, Hook.f. ; branches leaves beneath and inflorescence densely 

 tomentose, leaflets elliptic obtusely caudate-acuminate, stamens 5, styles 5 very 



