2 CouildrCtCeCB . \Connarus- 



glabrous, very strongly imbricate ; pet. much exceeding cal.,, 

 oval-oblong, spreading ; stam. erect, styles spreading ; follicle 

 f in. or a little more, cylindrical, falcately curved, tapering to 

 point, apiculate, striate, surrounded at base by a cup formed 

 of the much enlarged and imbricated sep., dehiscing ventrally ;, 

 seed about § in., oblong-ovoid, cotyledons plane-convex. 



Moist low country, up to 3000 ft.; rather common. Fl. April. 

 Also on the Malabar coast of India. 



Very strong ropes for tying buffaloes and strengthening fences are made 

 by twisting the stems. 



2. CONNABUS, L. 



Shrubs often scandent ; 1. imparipinnate ; fl. small, regular,, 

 in pyramidal panicles ; cal. deeply 5 -fid., segm. imbricate, not 

 enlarged in fruit ; pet. 5, distinct, erect ; stam. 10, inserted in 

 cal. -tube, fil. slightly connate at base, the 5 opp. sep. long, 

 with perfect anth., the 5 opp. pet. short with abortive anth.; 

 carp. 5 (4 often abortive), stigma small ; fruit a follicle or 

 2-valved ; seed solitary, with a large aril, cotyledons plane- 

 convex, no endosperm. — Sp. 55 ; 13 in FL B. Ind. 



Fruit distinctly stalked, not striate . . . 1. C. MONOCARPUS. 

 Fruit not stalked, striate 2. C. Championii. 



1. C. monocarpus, L. Sp. PL 675 (1753). Radaliya, S~ 

 Chettupulukodi, T. 



Herm. Mus. 39, 54. Burm. Thes. 199. Fl. Zeyl. n. 248. Omphalo- 

 biimi iiidiciim, Gaertn. Fruct. i. 217. C. asiaticus, Willd. and C. pinnatus y 

 Lam., Moon Cat. 49. Thw. Enum. 80. C. P. 328. 



Fl. B. Ind. ii. 50. Burm. Thes. t. 89. Gaertn. Fruct. i. t. 46, f. 3 

 (fruit). 



A much-branched bush, young parts rusty-puberulous, 

 l.-rachis i|-2j in., pubescent, thickened at base, lflts. 3 or 5 

 (1 or 2 pairs and a terminal one), on short, swollen, channelled 

 stalks, 2-3 in., ovate-oblong or ovate-oval, rounded at base, 

 obtuse, often twisted at apex, glabrous and somewhat shining 

 above ; fl. about \ in., articulated on short, stout, densely 

 pubescent ped., crowded in erect, irregularly pyramidal, 

 pubescent, paniculate cymes terminating the branchlets ; cal.- 

 segm. oblong-lanceolate, subacute, densely pubescent ; pet. 

 much longer than cal., oblong-linear, more or less pubescent 

 outside ; follicle 2\ in., fusiform, slightly falcate, apiculate, 

 tapering below into a narrow stalk, surrounded at base by the 

 persistent but not enlarged cal. and pet., smooth, brilliant 

 scarlet, splitting into 2 valves which are smooth within ; seed 



