NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



a calyx of five free sepals, 1 quincuncially imbricated in the hud, and a 

 corolla of five alternating petals, 2 also free and imbricated in the bud. 

 The androceum consists of two whorls of stamens, cohering by the 

 bases of the filaments, which are then free for the greater part of the 



Connarits {Omphalobium) Patrisii. 



Fig. 2. 



Flower. 



Fig. 4. 

 Longitudinal section of flower. 



Fig. 5. 



Fruit. 



Fig. 3. 

 Diagram. 



Fig. 6. 

 Longitudinal section of fruit. 



length, and bear introrse two-celled anthers dehiscing by two longi- 

 tudinal clefts. The five stamens superposed to the petals have 

 usually shorter filaments and smaller anthers than in the alterni- 

 petalous stamens, and their anthers may even become sterile. There 

 is no true disk. 3 The gynseceum consists of five free oppositipetalous 4 



Misc. Works, ed. Benn., 5. 113.— DC, Mem. 

 stir les Connarus et Omphalobium, on swr les 

 Connaracees Sarcolobees (in Men:. Soc. Hist. 

 Nat. de Par., ii. 383, t. 16, 17) ; Prod,-., ii. 84. 

 — Endl., Gen., n. 5948.— B. H., Gen., 432, 

 1001, d. 5. — H. Bn. in Ann. de la Sac. linn. 

 de Maine-et-Loire, ix. 57; Adansonia, vii. 233. 

 — Tapomana Adans., loc. cit. — Omphalobium 

 G^etn., Friict., i. 217, t, 46.— DC, loc. cit., 

 386. — Endl., Gen., n. 5949. — Santaloides L., 

 Fl. Zeyl., n. 40S ?—Malbrancia Neck., Mem., 

 1171. — Eri/throsligma Hassk., in Pot. Zeit., 

 xxv. Beibf., ii. 45 ; Cat. Hort. Pogor., 246.— 

 Anisostemon Tubcz., in Pull. 31osc. (1847), ii. 

 152. 



1 They are elongated, usually thickened, and 

 becoming more or less succulent at the base. 

 There is often a projecting dorsal rib. 



2 They are narrow and elongated, contracted 

 near the base, and thinning off at the edges, by 



which they often stick together at the points of 

 contact. They are always longer than the 

 sepals, and usually extend a good way beyond 

 them. They are almost always sprinkled with 

 irregular blackish or dark purple spots. Some- 

 times these are of very unequal size, and the 

 limb of the petal looks like "chine" stuff. In 

 several of our herbarium species, collectors have 

 remarked that the corolla is very odoriferous, 

 and that its scent attracts numbers of insects. 



3 What has been described as such is pro- 

 bably the circular swelling of the base of the 

 androceum, which is so well marked in certain 

 African species, especially in our C. Dnparqne- 

 tiamus (see Adansonia, loc. cit., 236, note 1). 



4 R. Brown thought that the fertile carpel of 

 Omphalobium was superposed to a sepal, not a 

 petal. But we have shown that there is in this 

 respect no difference between the two types (see 

 Adansonia, loc. cit., 233). 



