Connarus.'] XLIX. CONNARACE^J. (J. D. Hooker.) 51 



Prodr. ii. 86. 0. indicum, Gartn. Fruct. i. 217, t. 46, fig. 3 ; DC. I. c. 85. 

 Connaracea, Wall Cat. 8539, excl. V.JRheede, Hort. Mai. vi. t. 24 ? vii. t. 26. 



WESTERN PENINSULA, from the Concan to Travancor. CEYLON, abundant. 



Leaflets 3-4 by 1^ If in., glossy above, reticulations faint, quite glabrous, 

 Panicles densely pubescent. Flowers ^ in. long. Sepals ovate-oblong, subacute, 

 pubescent. Petals twice as long, slightly pubescent on the back. Longer filaments 

 three times as long as the shorter, all antheriferous. Capsule dark-coloured, rounded 

 at both sutures, dehiscing tardily, contracted but neither acute nor apiculate at the 

 tip. Testa black, shining. Very near the C. oligophyllus of Penang, but the capsule 

 is quite glabrous within. I think there can be no doubt that this, which is clearly 

 Lamarck's C. pinnatus, is also Linnseus's C. monocarpus, which being one of the 

 commonest plants in Ceylon, cannot have escaped Burmann's notice. Wight & Arnott 

 describe it as having a sessile capsule, no doubt from Eheede's figure, which, if it 

 belongs to this plant, is a very bad one, also as having a glabrous calyx, which is not 

 the case. , 



2. C. Wigrhtii, Hook. f. ; leaves elliptic-ovate obtusely pointed, nerves 

 5-6 on each side arched slender, capsules l by f in. compressed, base narrowed 

 into the stalk shining hardly pointed. Rourea? sclerocarpa, W. Sf A. in 

 Wight Cat. 934. (See note under Pongamia, W. fy A. Prodr. 262.) 



WESTERN PENINSULA, Wight ; the Concan, Stocks. 



Leaflets 3-3^ by l- If in., coriaceous, hardly shining, finely reticulated, quite 

 glabrous. Capsules pale chestnut coloured, shining, rounded, strongly striate on the 

 ventral and dorsal faces, narrowly keeled at the sutures, early dehiscing, pale and 

 quite glabrous within. I have described this from a fruiting specimen. The capsule 

 resembles that of C. paniculatus, but is quite glabrous within. 



3. C. Ritchie i, Hook. f. ; leaflets elliptic-lanceolate obtusely acuminate, 

 nerves 5-7 on each side faint, capsule f by ^ in. turgidly oblong rounded at the 

 top, base cordate. 



WESTERN PENINSULA, the Concan, Stocks ; the Eamghat near Belgaum, Ritchie. 



Leaflets 3-4 by 1^ If in., finely reticulated, quite glabrous. Panicles rusty- 

 pubescent. Flowers crowded, | in. long. Sepals ovate-oblong. Petals about twice a 

 long. Capsule quite as broad from suture to suture as across the valves, dark- 

 coloured, intruded at the base, which is very rounded, and suddenly contracted into 

 the stalk. The capsule much resembles that of C. latifolius, Wall., but is more 

 cordate at the base and larger. 



** Valves of the capsules^more or less pubescent or velvety within (un- 

 known in C. Griffithii and semi'decandrus. 

 t Leaflets more or less pubescent beneath. 



4. C. ferrug-meus, Jack in Mai. Misc. 2, vii. 37; branches panicles 

 and leaves beneath densely rusty tomentose, leaflets 7 oblong or oblanceolate 

 acuminate rugose, capsules 2-2^ by 1 in. compressed velvety narrowed into the 

 stalk. Connaracea, Wall. Cat. 8530. 



EASTERN PENINSULA, Sincapore, Malacca, and Penang, Jack, Sfc. 



Densely clothed with rusty velvety tomentum. Leaflets 3-6 by 1| 2 in., thickly 

 coriaceous, rugose, and pubescent above when young, glabrate above when old, base 

 rounded or subcordate ; petiolules very short and stout ; nerves 6-8 pairs, arched, 

 very much sunk above and raised beneath. Panicles shorter than the leaves, very 

 stout. Flowers nearly ^ in. long. Sepals oblong. Petals twice as long, narrowly 

 linear-spathulate. Filaments glabrous, shorter, half as long as the others. Capsule 

 almost woody, readily dehiscing, hardly pointed, densely tomentose, valves finely 

 pubescent within. 



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