326 ANACARDIACES. [ Connarus. 
CONNARUS, L. 
Calyx 5-parted, ihe lobes not enlarging, imbricate, persistent 
or deciduous. Petals 5, longer than the calyx, sometimes slightly 
cohering. Stamens 10, ‘alternately shorter and sometimes castrate ; 
Hlaisents filiform, uni it m. aring atthe base. Disk none or thin 
and annular. Carp els 5, 4 of which usually minute or quite 
suppressed ; style ae Follicle stalked, coriaceous, opening 
along the inner suture, one-seeded. Arillus incomplete, obed and 
adnate to the broad hilum. Testa glossy. Albumen none,—Little 
trees or shrubs, usually scandent, with alternate piri or rarely 
pinnately 3-foliolate leaves, the leaflets in few pairs. Flowers 
small, in axillary panicles or rarely racemes. 
icles tomentose outside. 
Rachis of evte and leaflets iene _— follicles tomen- 
tose C. semidecandrus. 
* Foltictes more or Tess pubescent or velvety within, giab- 
or nearly so ou 
x Petioles. and leaflets beneath pubescent, the nervation 
very indistinct . C. Griffithii. 
xX X Leaflets perfec tly glabrous ; follicles stalked. 
—— Follicles chartaceous or thin mpage a striate. : 
A large llicles about an inch long or pes . C. paniculatus. 
Climber ; fa follicles about 4 in. long or penewliak Gonder. ~ x. Seen se! 
Apparently like preceding, but the follicles nearly cylindrical . C. latifolius. 
+--+ Follicles woody. : 
Leaflets thick, coriaceous, large; follicles about 2in.long . ~~ C. grandis. 
1. C. semidecandrus, Jack.; H.f. Ind. Fl. ii. 52.—A small 
tree, the young shoots softly rusty villous; leaves unpaired-pinnate; 
leaflets in 1-2 pairs with an odd one, ovate-lanceolate to broadly 
lanceolate, acuminate, entire, smooth above, slightly villous beneath, 
3-4 in. long, the nerves lucid; flowers light-bluish, in brownish 
ous panicles at the end of the Sranchlote and in the axils of the 
upper leaves; bracts small ; sepals erect, tomentose, reddish ; petals 
the other 5 sho: sterile, all united into a ring at the base ; 
follicle oe rusty-coloured, 2-valved, 1-seeded, 
earuncled.—(From Jack’s Mal. Misc.) 
Has.—Southern Tenasserim (according to Hooker). 
2. C. Griffithii, H.f. Ind. Fl. ii. 52.—Branches slender, pubes- 
cent ; petiole pubescent ; leaflets ovate- or elliptical 'y lanceolate, 
hin eous, 
= han twice as long, eabrous ligulate ; 
 glabrous.—(From Hooker's Ind. FL) 
HaB.—Southern Tenasserim. 
