56 XLIX. CONNAEACEJ:. (J. D. Hooker.) [Ellipantlius. 



** Lfaves pubescent or tomentose beneath. 



4. E. tomentosus, Kurz in Jour. As. Soc. Beng. 1870, pt. ii. 305 ; 

 leaflet elliptic ovate or orbicular obtuse acute or obtusely acuminate densely 

 pubescent beneath, nerves 6-8 pairs very slender. Oonnarus ? monophyllus, 

 Watt. Cat. 8551 (Connaracea). 



PEGU, MARTABAN, and TENASSERIM, Wallich., &c. DISTRIB. Siam. 



Branches densely tomentose with fulvous hair. Leaflets 4-6 by 2-3| in., usually ellip- 

 tic or elliptic-lanceolate, but often broader and sometimes quite orbicular, coriaceous, 

 glabrous, shining and very finely reticulated above; petiole ^~ in. Racemes ^ in., 

 densely tomentose. Mowers in. diam. Sepals obtuse. Petals twice as long, oblong, 

 obtuse. Filaments hairy. Ovary strigose. Capsule 1^ in. (2 in., Kurz), semicircular 

 or obovoid, contracted into the stout stalk, obtuse, apiculate, densely velvety, sutures 

 rounded, valves woody, glabrous within. 



5. E. Griffith!!, Hook. f. ; leaves ovate-lanceolate caudate-acuminate 

 rusty-pubescent beneath, nerves 8-10 pairs strong beneath. 



MALACCA, Griffith. DISTRIB. Borneo. 



Branches slender, rusty pubescent or tomentose. Leaflet 45 by If- 2 in., coria- 

 ceous, glabrous and shining above, tomentose chiefly on the nerves beneath ; petiole 

 -: in. Eacemes ^ in., few-flowered. Capsules f in. long, curved, semicircular, beaked, 

 densely clothed with rusty velvety tomentum, stalk very short, valves woody, glabrous 

 within. 



OKDEK L. X.EGUBXXNOS1B. (By J. G. Baker, F.L.S.) 



Herbs, shrubs, or trees. Leaves stipulate and usually alternate, pinnate or 

 digitate or simple, often stipellate, sometimes with the rachis ending in a tendril. 

 Inflorescence axillary leaf-opposed or terminal, usually simply racemose or 

 panicled ; bracts and bracteoles usually both present. Floiuers usually irre- 

 gular, hermaphrodite, rarely regular or polygamous. Sepals 5, combined or free, 

 often unequal, sometimes combined into two lips. Petals 5, rarely fewer by 

 arrest, usually free and. unequal. Stamens normally ten, perigynous or almost 

 hypogynous, rarely fewer by arrest or indefinite ; filaments free or variously com- 

 bined. Anthers 2-celled, the dehiscence almost* always longitudinal. Ovary 

 free ; style simple, cylindrical, usually declinate ; stigma capitate, terminal 

 or oblique. Ovules one or more on:the ventral suture. Fruit usually dry, a pod 

 splitting open along both sutures, sometimes continuous and indehiscent, at 

 others separating into 1-seeded joints. Seeds usually exalbuminous ; cotyledons 

 foliaeeous or amygdaloid, -with a straight or indexed accumbent radicle. 

 DISTRIB. One of the mosfr cosmopolitan of natural orders, the second largest of 

 ' flowering plants, containing between 6000 and 7000 known species. Of the 

 three suborders it is only 'the first that is cosmopolitan, the two others not 

 reaching beyond the tropical and warm temperate zones. 



SUBORDER L PAPILIONACJEsE. Corona papilionaceous. Petals irregular, 

 imbricated, the uppermost (sta'ndard) outermost, the four others in two opposite 

 pairs. Stamens definite. 



Tribe L, Fodalyriese. Stamens free. Pod dehiscent. Leaves digitate. 



Shrub with connate stipules 1. PIPTANTHTTS. 



Herbs with free stipules' . . ... .. .. . 2. THBRMOPSIS. 



Tribe II. Genisteae. Stamens monadelphous. Pod dehiscent, not jointed. 

 Leaves simple or digitately 3-foliolate. 



