ToeniocTiloena."] XLIX. CONXABACE^. (J. D. Hooker.) 55 



sessile ; styles short, stigmas discoid. Capsules 1-3, ovoid, compressed, pubes- 

 cent ; valves glabrous within. Seed oblong, arillate ; albumen ; cotyledons 

 plano-convex. 



1. T. Griffith!!, Hook.f. in Benth. $ Hook. Gen. PL i. 434. 



MALACCA, Griffith, Maingay. 



Branches rather slender, quite glabrous. Leaflets Z-T^oj lf-3in., sometimes almost 

 orbicular, base usually cordate, shining above and beneath, nerves 3-5 pairs, arched ; 

 petiolules very short. Racemes 2-3 in., fascicled, densely pubescent, slender. Flowers 

 rotate, g- in. diam. Sepals oblong, pubescent, recurved in flower. Petals twice as long, 

 linear, dilated upwards, glabrous. Filaments short, subulate. Capsules 2-3, |-1 in., 

 obtuse, densely pubescent, valves coriaceous. Seed short, slightly compressed, testa 

 black. 



7. ELLIPANTHUS, Hook. f. 



Trees or shrubs. Leaves with 1 leaflet, quite entire. Racemes axillary, 

 short. Floivers hermaphrodite or polygamous. Sepals 5, not enlarged in fruit, 

 suberect, valvate. Petals 5, longer than the sepals, oblong-lanceolate, densely 

 pubescent. Stamens 10, 5 shorter, without anthers, filaments short subulate 

 connate at the base. Ovary 1, strigose ; style short. Capsule stalked, oblique, 

 velvety ; valves glabrous within. Seed arillate, albumen ; cotyledons plano- 

 convex. DISTBIB. Malayan Peninsula and Islands. 



* Leaves glabrous beneath or nearly so. 



1. E. Thwaitesii, Hook.f. ; leaflet elliptic obtusely caudate-acuminate, 

 capsule curved into a semicircle beaked densely closely pubescent. Connarus 

 unifoliatus, Thwaites Enum. 80 and 410. 



CEYLON, Central Province, at 3-4000 ft. Thwaites 



A. moderate sized tree ; branches slender, black. Leaflet 2-3| by 1 -If in., reticu- 

 late ; petiole and petiolule 5 f in., slender. Racemes 4-7-flowered, pubescent, bracts 

 deciduous. Flowers subdicecious, ^ in. diam., green. Sepals acute. Petals twice as 

 long. Capsule l\ in. long, compressed, woody.. 



2. E. Helferi, Hook. f. ; leaflet elliptic-lanceolate or linear-lanceolate 

 acuminate, nerves 5-7 pairs strong beneath. 



TENASSERIM or ANDAMAN ISLANDS ; Heifer. DISTRIB. Borneo. 



Branches slender, black. Leaves 4-7 by l|-2i in., very variable in length and 

 breadth, thinly coriaceous, with slight pubescence on the petiole and midrib beneath ; 

 petiole slender, | in. Racemes - in., pubescent. Flower-buds, | in. long. Fruit 

 unknown. 



3. E. calophyllus, Kurz Andam. Rep. Append. B. 6 ; and in Beng. As. 

 Soc. Jour. 1872, ii. 305 ; leaflet ovate ovate-lanceolate or elliptic long-acumi- 

 nate quite glabrous, nerves 6-7 pairs very slender. 



ANDAMAN ISLANDS, Kurz. 



A tree 20-30 ft. ; shoots and buds pubescent. Leaflet 5-7 by 2-2| in., coriaceous,, 

 finely reticulated, gradually narrowed to the obtusely acuminate tip, pale ; petiole 

 slender, f-1 in. Racemes\ in., densely pubescent. Petals 5- in., densely pubescent, 

 linear-oblong. Capsules f-1 in., obovoid or ellipsoid, subacute, densely velvety ; valves 

 woody, glabrous within. The description of the petals and inside of the capsule is 

 taken from Kurz. 



