Ellipanthus.'} LEGUM/NOSAE. 273 



.'i. CONNARUS RITCHIBI, Hook, f . ; F. B. I. ii. 51. 



W. Coast and W. Ghats from S. Canara and Coorg to 



Travancore. 



A climbing shrub or small tree. 



4. CONNARUS SCLEROCARPUS, Schellenb. Roiu'ca / sclerocarpa. 



W. &A. 



W. Ghats, scarce in the North as S. Canara, common in 

 the Anamalai and Tinnevelly Hills up to 3,000 ft, 

 A large climbing shrub. 



5. CONNARUS PANICULATUS, Roxb. ; F. B. I. ii. 52. 



N. Circars, in Vizagapatam (Beddome). 

 A large climbing shrub. 



3. Ellipanthus, Hook. f. 



Trees or shrubs. Leaves with 1 leaflet, entire. Flowers in 

 short axillary racemes, hermaphrodite or polygamous. Sepals 5, 

 valvate. Petals 5, imbricate, pubescent, longer than the sepals. 

 Stamens 10, 5 long and anther-bearing alternating with 5 short 

 without anthers ; filaments subulate, connate in a tube at the 

 base. Ovary ovoid, densely villous, attenuate into a short style 

 and lobed stigma. Fruit a stalked oblique velvety follicle, valves 

 glabrous within. Seed oblong, girt at the base by a fleshy aril ; 

 testa of two integuments, outer blackish shining, inner brown 

 leathery ; albumen ; cotyledons plano-convex. 



ELLIPANTHUS NEGLECTUS, Gamble in Kew Bull. 1917, 26. 

 W. Ghats, in the Hills of Travancore and Tinnevelly, up 

 to 2,000 ft. 



A small tree with elliptic acuminate much reticulate 

 coriaceous leaves, flowers in short rusty-villous racemes 

 fascicled in the leaf-axils and velvety capsule with a large 

 blue-black seed having a pink aril. Yern. Mai. Padappen. 



Family LY. LEGUMINOSAE. 



Herbs, shrubs or trees. Leaves alternate, rarely opposite, 

 usually compound ; stipules 2, usually free; leaflets often stipellate. 

 Flowers usually irregular, hermaphrodite, rarely regular or 

 polygamous, in axillary leaf-opposed or terminal racemes or 

 panicles, rarely solitary, bracteate and usually 2-bracteolate. 

 8<pals 5, combined or free, often unequal, sometimes combined 



