54 XLIX. coNNARACEyE. (J. D. Hooker.) [Connarus. 



DOUBTFUL SPECIES. 



0. SPECIES ? leaflets 5-8 in. elliptic and stout, branches almost black and very 

 polished, nerves 7-8 pair very strong beneath, panicle slender hoary, sepals ovate- 

 lanceolate, petals glabrous. Sincapore or Penang, Walker. 



C. SPECIES ? leaflets as in C. pinnatus, but nerves beneath very strong. Anamallay 

 hills, alt. 3000 ft., Beddome. 



CONNARUS? VELUTINUS, Wall. Cat. 8536, consists of foliage and diseased fruit of 

 a Spatholobus, with one capsule of ELlipanthus tomentosus, H. f. 



CONNAETJS ? JACKIANUS, Wall. Cat. 8552, is Cupania Jackiana, Hiern. 



CONNARUS MIMOSOIDES, VaTil Symb. iii. 87 ; DC. Prodr. ii. 85, from the Nicobar 

 Islands is indeterminate from description. 



5. CNESTIS, Juss. 



Shrubs or trees. Leaves odd-pinnate ; leaflets many, quite entire. Flowers 

 solitary, fascicled or racemed, tomentose, rarely panicled, polygamous or dioe- 

 cious, rotate. Sepals 5, valvate or imbricate at the tip, spreading in fruit. Petals 

 5, shorter or longer than the calyx. Stamens 10, free. Ovaries 5-7, sessile ;,- 

 styles short, stigmas capitellate. Capsules 1-3, kidney-shaped, cylindriq 

 curved or waved, pubescent, often villous or clothed with rigid hairs within* 

 Seed exarillate, albumen fleshy ; cotyledons thin. DISTKIB. Tropical Asia and 

 Africa ; species about 10. 



1. C. ramiflora, Griff". Notul. iv. 432 ; softly tomentose or villous, leaf- 

 lets 12-15-pairs linear-oblong, tip rounded obtuse or subacute, base rounded or 

 cordate. 0. flaniinea, Griff. I.e. 433, t. 608, f. 2. 0. platantha, Griff. I.e. 434 g 

 Kurz in Jour. As. Soc. Seng. 1870, pt. ii. 76. Connarus foliolosus, Jack in Wall^ 

 Cat. 8529. 0. igneus, Wall. Cat. 8528, (Connaracea). Rourea dasyphylla, Miq. 

 Fl. Ind. Sat. Suppl. 528. 



BIRMA, at Amherst, Chappedong and Eangoon, Wallich. TENASSERIM, at Mergui* 

 Griffith. MOULMEIN and the S. ANDAMANS, Kurz, &c. PENANG, MALACCA and 

 SINGAPORE, Wallich, Griffith, &c. DISTRIB. Sumatra, Philippine Islands. 



A climbing shrub. Branches stout, woody. Leaves 1 ft. ; petiole slender, pube- 

 scent ; leaflets subsessile, 1| 3 in., sometimes contracted below the middle, glabrousl 

 and shining above; nerves 6-10 pairs, slender, arched. Panicles axillary, fascicled, 

 slender, much shorter than the leaves, densely clothed with pale soft tomentum. Flowers 

 $ % in. diam., rosy, $ smaller. Sepals linear-oblong, obtuse. Petals shorter in the 

 $ . longer in the $ , linear-oblong, obtuse or emarginate, glabrous. Filaments slender, 

 glabrous. Ovaries 5-7 (usually 6, Griffith), hirsute ; styles short. Capsules 1-3 in. 

 long, sessile, falcate, enlarged and tumid above the middle, obtuse, woody, rugged ; 

 valves thickly woody, velvety within. Seed short, broad, compressed, testa thin. 

 I think there can be no doubt but that this answers to the three species of Cnestis 

 described by Griffith and cited above, though his names are not attached to any of 

 his specimens. It has been distributed as Cnestis foliolosus and C. igneus, Planch. 

 MSS. in Herb. Hook. 



6. TJENXOCHXilENA, Hook. f. 



A rambling shrub. Leaves odd-pinnate, glabrous ; leaflets 5, quite entire. 

 Panicles axillary, short. Floicers hermaphrodite. Calyx-tube short, hemispheric, 

 segments 5, enlarged and revolute in fruit, valvate. Petals 5, much exceeding 

 the calyx. Stamens 10 ; alternately shorter, nearly free at the base. Ovaries 5, 



