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5, usually narrow, free or slightly cohering, very rarely valvate. Stamens 

 perigynous or hypogynous, sometimes declinate, 5 or 10, those opposite 

 the petals often shorter and imperfect ; filaments often connate at the 

 base. Disc or small, annular or incomplete. Pistils 5, rarely 1-3 or 

 6-7, ovoid, hirsute, 1 -celled ; styles subulate or filiform, stigmas capitel- 

 late, simple or 2-Iobed ; ovules 2, collateral, ascending, orthotropous. 

 Fruit usually of 1, rarely 2-3, sessile or stalked, I- rarely 2-seeded 

 follicles. Seed erect, usually arillate, testa thick, usually more or less 

 covered by an arillus which is often very thin ; cotyledons fleshy in the 

 exalbuminous, leafy in the albuminous seeds ; radicle superior, rarely 

 ventral. — Distrib. 14 genera, all tropical. 

 Seeds exalbuminous, arillate. 

 Pistils solitary. 



Leaves pinnate, leaflets 3 to 11* trees or scandent 



shrubs ... ... ... ... ... i. Constaktts. 



Leaflet solitary, small trees or shrubs, never scandent 2. Ellipanthus. 

 Pistils 5 but usually only 1 perfect : leaves pinnate, 

 (leaflet solitary in one species of Rourea). 



Flower-pedicels ebracteolate : follicle curved ; lobes of 

 calyx persistent, slightly accrescent, imbricate and 

 forming a cup at the base ... ... ... 3. Rourea. 



Flower-pedicels with persistent bracteoles at their 

 bases, follicle not curved ; calyx- lobes persistent, but 

 neither accrescent nor imbricate ... ... 4. Roureopsis. 



Pistils 2 to 5, perfect. 



Calyx imbricate ; follicles rugose, laminate or tubercled 5. Agbl^a. 



Calyx valvate ; follicles neither rugose laminate nor 



tubercled ... ... ... ... 6. T^niochl^ina. 



Seeds albuminous, pistils 5 to 7, follicles 1 to 3, arillus thin 7. Cnestis. 



1. * Connarus, Linn. 



Trees or (usually scandent) shrubs. Leaves unequally pinnate ; 

 leaflets 5, rarely 3 or more, quite entire. Panicles axillary and terminal, 

 branched. Flowers small. Sepals 5, deciduous or persistent and clasp- 

 ing the pedicel of the capsule but not accrescent, imbricate. Petals 5, 

 linear or slightly dilated upwards. Stamens 10, 5 shorter and sometimes 

 without anthers. Ovary 1, densely pubescent, style slender, stigma 

 capitellate. Capsule oblique, stipitate, inflated, broader upwards ; valves 

 glabrous or pubescent within. Seeds arillate, testa shining, albumen ; 

 cotyledons amygdaloid. — Distrib. Species about 80, all tropical. 

 Petals minute, much shorter than the sepals ... ... 1. C. Maingayi. 



Petals longer than the sepals. 



Under surfaces of the leaflets and the follicles externally 

 densely rusty-pubescent, upper surfaces of leaflets sparsely 

 pubescent ... ... ... ... ... 2. C ferrugineus. 



