CONNARACEAE. 271 



Seed erect, often arillate ; testa thick, sometimes fleshy below ; 

 albumen fleshy or ; cotyledons fleshy in exalbuminous, leafy in 

 albuminous seeds; radicle superior. 



Calyx imbricate ; seeds exalbuminous, arillate ; leaves impari- 

 pinnate : 



Calyx accrescent in fruit, clasping the base of the sessile follicle 



1. Rourea. 

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



2. Gonnarus. 

 Calyx valvato ; seeds exalbuminous, arillate ; leaflet 1 



3. Ellipanthus. 



1. Rourea, Aubl. 



Trees or shrubs, sometimes scandent. Leaves imparipinnate ; 

 leaflets subopposite or alternate. Flowers small, in axillary 

 panicles ; pedicels usually slender. Sepals 5, orbicular, imbricate, 

 enlarged in fruit and clasping its base. Petals 5, usually linear- 

 oblong, longer than the calyx. Stamens 10, filaments filiform, 

 alternately longer and shorter, connate in a ring at the base. 

 Carpels 5. of which 4 are usually imperfect; styles slender; 

 stigma c-apitellate. Fruit a sessile curved follicle. Seed erect. 

 arillate ; albumen ; cotyledons plano-convex, fleshy ; radicle 

 small. 



ROUREA SANTALOIDES, W. & A. 144 ; F. B. I. ii. 47. Connam* 

 monocarpus, W. & A. 143, not of Linn. 



W. Coast and W. side of Ghats, rising to 3,000 ft., from 



S. Canara to Travancore. 



A climbing or sarmentose shrub with 5-9 elliptic, long- and 



obtusely-acuminate leaflets and follicles about -'75 in. long. 



The leaves and follicles are rather variable in size and shape. 



Yern. Mai. Kuriel. 



2. Connarus, L. 



Trees or shrubs, often climbing. Leaves imparipinnate ; leaflets 

 usually 5, sometimes 3, sometimes more, entire. Flowers in 

 axillary and terminal branched panicles. Sepals 5, connate .at 

 base in a short tube, not accrescent, in fruit embracing the base 

 of the fruiting pedicel. Petals 5, linear or ligulate or oblong, 

 slightly enlarged upwards. Stamens 10, those opposite the sepals 

 with long filaments and perfect anthers, those alternate with them 



