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CoNNARUs, L. (DC.pr. 2, p. 84 ; — fF. and A.pr. I, p. 143.) 



I. paniculatus, Roxb. (fl. ind. 3, p. 139.) L. b Chittagong. Fl. small, 

 yellow. In H. C. G. fl. June. {Roxb.) A large timber-tree. 



2. nitidus, Roxb. (//. B. p. 49.) b Silhet. Fl. small, whitish, H. S. ; 

 fr. Sept. and Oct. 



3. igneus. Wall. MSS. b Native place } Introduced in 1840. 

 RouREA, Aubl. {W. and A.pr. \,p. 143.) 



1. Sookurthoontee, (Cnestis monadelpha, Roxb. fl. ind. 2, p. 454.) 

 'g;;<P^ ^^ Sookur-toontee. 5 Chittagong. Silhet. Fl. small, white, fra- 

 grant, June and July ; fr. Oct. 



Connarus monocarpus, L. ; Rheed. 7, t. 26. b Travancore. — C. pin- 

 natus. Lam. ; Wight, ill. 1, t. 64. b Coromandel, Concan. Goa jungles. 

 — C. pubescens, DC. % Guiana — Omphalobium Lamberti, DC. b 

 Guiana. — 0. Perrottetii, DC. b Guiana. — Rourea santalo'ides, W. 

 and A. 5 Ceylon. — R. emarginata, W. and A. (Cnestis emarginata. 

 Jack.) — R. florida, W. and A. (Cnestis florida. Jack.) — R. mimosoides, 

 W. and A. (Cnestis mimosoides, Jack.) b Nicobar Islands. — Cnestis 

 glabra, Lam. b Mauritius. Bourbon. 



ORDER CVIII.— CHRYSOBALANACE^, Lindl. Nat. Syst. p. 158. 



THE COCOA-PLUM TRIBE. 



Trees or shrubs, referred by Lindl. to 11 genera. Of these, DC. pr. 



and Spreng. syst. assign 33 species to S. America, Mexico and the W. 



Indies ; I to Georgia in N. America ; 2 to Sierra Leone ; 1 to Senegal ; 1 



to Bourbon ; — to Madagascar ; and 1 to New Holland. Two species have 



been found in India : Prinsepia utilis, in the Himalayas, and a Parinarium ? 



at Singapore. Fruit of several species of Chrysobalanus and Parinarium 



eatable. 



Chrysobalanus, L. {DC. pr. 2, p. 525.) 



l.Icaco, L. {DC. I. c. — Jacq. am. 154, t. 94.) $ S. America, and the 

 W. Indies ; by the sea-side. Southern parts of N. America. Fl. 

 white. Fruit eatable. Introduced into H. C. G. before 1814. Fl. ? 



Prinsepia, Royle. (///. p. 206.) 



\. utilis, Royle. (o. c. t. 38,/. 1.) B Common on the driest and most 

 barren rocks of the Himalayas, as in the neighbourhood of Muttiana, 

 in N. lat. 31^°, and at elevations of 5-6000 feet, where its seeds 

 yield by expression a useful oil. Fl. nearly middle-sized, whitish. 

 Has been in the garden here several years without flowering. 



* Chrysobalanus oblongifolius, Schott. B Brazil. — C. macrophyllus, 

 Scholt. B Brazil. — Moquilea guianensis, Aubl. b Guiana. — M. ca- 



2 M 



