Misses | 
DESCRIPTION OF MALAYAN PLANTS. 
CONNARUS. Linn. 
(“Those species having never more than . 
one style, and no albumen, belong to Con- 
narus, as limited by Dr. Brown. Rox- 
burgh's Connarus, however, is a species of 
Rouzea, Aubl. A. WAY) 
This genus, with Cnestis, has been re- 
moved by Mr. R. Brown, from the Tere- 
binthacee of Jussieu, and formed into a se- 
parate and very natural family, under the 
name of Connaracee. They are rather a 
numerous tribe in the Malay Islands, and 
besides the following species of Connarus 
and Cnestis, I have to add the new genus 
Eurycoma, which appears to be sufficiently 
distinct from both the former. I am doubt- 
ful whether the species which I have re- 
lerred to Cnestis really belong to that ge- 
nus, as they have all smooth capsules with 
arlled or carunculate seeds, or whether 
they ought not to be separated from those 
whose capsules are clothed with prurient 
hair. Some confusion appears also to have 
existed between the species of Cnestis and 
Connarus, the ripe capsules of the former 
being often solitary from the abortion of 
the remaining ovaries, and I am much in- 
clined to think that Connarus santaloides 
and mimosoides of Vahl, in particular, are 
in reality species of Cnestis, a supposition 
which is supported by the analogy of the 
inflorescence, which is almost without ex- 
ception terminal in Connarus, and axillary 
in Cnestis. This distinction is of some 
importance between genera so nearly re- 
lated, 
CONNARUS FERRUGINEA. W.J. 
Ferrugineo-tomentosa, foliis pinnatis, folio- 
lis oblongis coriaceis subtus ferrugineo- 
villosis, paniculis terminalibus 
Bunga Burutta, Malay. 
Native of Pulo Pinang. 
A 
small-sized Tree. Branches round, 
eid with ferruginous wool. Leaves 
nete, pande; Hafets jd E 
wath. Petioles round, villous, thicken- 
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ed at the base. Stipules none. Panicles 
large, terminal, sometimes with a few ax- 
illary racemes. Flowers numerous, white. 
Bracts roundish, often curved, ferrugin- 
ously villous as well as the calyces and the 
whole panicle. Calyx five-parted, lacinie 
erect, oblong, acute. Corolla white, sprin- 
kled with red dots, five-petaled, longer 
than the calyx, petals erect, lanceolate. 
Stamens ten, erect, united at the base, the 
alternate ones much shorter. Anthers 
ovate. Style shorter than the long stamens. 
fagma capitate, three-furrowed. Capsule 
follicular, ferruginous, rather inflated, ob- 
lique, gibbous behind, opening on one side, 
one-celled, one-seeded. Seed bean-shaped, 
appendiculate at the umbilicus. Umbilical 
appendage or caruncle large and glandular. 
Embryo dicotyledonous, caäfohä to the 
seed, without albumen ; radicle at a dis- 
tance from the umbilicus. 
Oss. This fine species is well distin- 
most by its thick leathery leaves and 
e ferruginous pubescence of their lower 
ence and of the branches and panicles. 
W. J. 
Villosissima, foliolis 5—7 lanceolatis longe 
acuminatis supra glabris, paniculis ter- 
minalibus dense stellato-villosis ferrugi- 
neis. 
Native of Sumatra. 
The whole plant densely and ferrugin- 
ously woolly. Branches round. Leaves 
alternate, pinnate, leaflets five or seven, 
subopposite, oblong-lanceolate, narrowing 
towards the base, terminating in a long 
acumen, entire, smooth above, villous be- 
neath, with stellate pubescence, about six 
inches long. In young leaves the upper 
surface is covered with deciduous pubes- 
cence. Panicles large, terminal, and from 
the upper axils, densely villous, ferrugin- 
ous. Bracts long, linear, thick, curved, 
villous. Calyx five-parted, villous. Co- 
rolla five-petaled, limb spreading. Sta- 
mens ien, united into a ring at the base, 
the alternate ones shorter. Ovary densely 
CONNARUS VILLOSA. 
| pilose, with plumose hairs. Style longer 
villous than the stamens. Stigma : 
capitate. 
Oss. This plant is covered with denser 
