CONNABACEJE. 



number of free follicles, tapering at the base, then swelling out, 

 and tipped by a little renexed apiculus. Each follicle opens at 

 maturity along its ventral angle, we may then easily distinguish 

 the rather fleshy pericarp from the woody endocarp, which is a little 

 shorter ventrally than the rest of the pericarp. 1 Hence it gapes on 

 this side and parts from the contained seed a little above its micro- 

 pyle. The seed (fig. 13), now free in the endocarp, 2 incloses in its 

 coats a copious, nearly horny albumen, in whose axis is a long green 

 embryo with flattened cotyledons and a superior radicle. The whole 

 of the outer surface of the seed consists of a fleshy tissue, which, 

 as in Magnolia, represents the external coat thus modified through- 

 out ; it ma}^ be viewed as an aril, generalized in Manotes, but 

 specialized in Connarm and its allies. Three species of Manotes are 

 known, all natives of the west of tropical Africa. 3 



In Tricholobiis* (fig. 14) we find the habit and foliage of Connarm, 



with flowers whose perianth and androceum resemble those of Manotes; 



the five sepals are valvate ; the five longer alter- 

 nating petals are imbricated or twisted in the 



bud ; and the monadelphous androceum consists 



often stamens, whose filaments are free above, 



and bear introrse two-celled anthers dehiscing 



longitudinally. The five stamens superposed to 



the petals are the shorter, and may even become 



altogether sterile. But the gynaeceum never at 



any age consists of more than one carpel, whose 



free one-celled ovary is surmounted by a style of 



variable length, dilated at the tip into a stig- 



matiferous head. The fruit is a sessile or stipi- 



tate pod, 5 surrounded at the base by the non- m \ 



i ' ~ Fruit, right valve rei 



accrescent calyx, and containing within a pericarp 

 of variable consistency an ascending seed, 6 which possesses a 

 somewhat lateral, irregularly-lobed aril, and a thick, fleshy, ex- 

 albuminous embryo, with its radicle superior. 



Tricholobv.s cocltinchinensis. 



Fio. II. 



1 The woody endocarp sends a long hard tail 

 into the stalk of the follicle. 



2 This it is which Planchon described as 

 an aril, also mistaking the lower hard con- 

 tracted part of the endocarp for a funiclc (see 

 Adansonia, loc. cit., 246). 



3 Baker, loc. cit., 459. 



4 Bl., Mas. But. Lurjd.-Bal., i. 236. — B.H., 

 Gen., 133, n. «J. 



5 This is the only name which cnu bo used to 

 describe it, as it opens by two longitudiual clefts 

 into two valves, which are altogether free from 

 each other and only adhere to the receptacle 

 by their bases. One of these valves has 

 detached in fig. 1 1, where we onlj 

 cic itrix. 



8 Us attachmcnl may he alio-. lar as 



in T. cochinchinensis U. Bn. Hat. as i" ' 



